Dana Randall is a professor of theoretical computer science at Georgia Tech. Her primary research interest is analyzing algorithms for counting problems (eg. counting matchings in a graph) using Markov chains. One of her important contributions to this area is a so called "decomposition theorem" for analyzing Markov chains. Her sister is Lisa Randall. Wikipedia
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