Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science
Contact Information
Campus: Fairfax
Building: Nguyen Engineering Building
Room 5320
Mail Stop: 4A5
Personal Websites
Biography
Dana Richards comes to George Mason University with years of experience as a programmer and innovator in the field of computer science. Before joining the College of Engineering and Computing faculty, Richards worked as a programmer for Comress, Inc., and as an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Virginia. Most recently, he served as the program director of the Theory of Computing division of the National Science Foundation. He has written or edited three books and numerous publications on the topic. His research interests include comparisons of protein sequences, Steimer tree algorithms, information dissemination in networks, parallel heuristics and methodology for computationally intractable problems, and parallel algorithms for median filters.
Research
2005 - 2007 : SGER: The Structure of Exponential Networks. Funded by the National Science Foundation.
2005 - 2007 : NSF:SGER: Exponential Networks. Funded by the National Science Foundation.
Research Interests
Parallel and Distributed Systems
Degrees
- PhD, Computer Science, University of Illinois
- MS, Computer Science, University of Virginia