Andréa Werneck Richa is a Brazilian-American computer scientist known for her research in distributed computing, self-organizing particle systems,[1] network routing and replication, and bio-inspired computing.
She is a President's Professor of computer science and engineering at Arizona State University.
[2] Richa studied computer science at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, earning a bachelor's degree there in 1989 and a master's degree in 1992.
She went to Carnegie Mellon University for advanced graduate study in the program in algorithms, combinatorics, and optimization, earning a second master's degree in 1995 and completing her Ph.D. there in 1998.
[2] Her dissertation, On Distributed Network Resource Allocation, was supervised by Bruce Maggs.