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Press & Awards

Prof. Andréa Richa, 2022 ASU President’s Professor

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Press

  1. Gender barriers did not stop this PhD grad from pursuing her goals. Rithwik Kalale, ASU News, April 2026.
  2. Ingenuity in teaching, research and leadership earns top honor. Sona Srinarayana, Full Circle, February 2022.
  3. ASU names 3 faculty as 2022 President’s Professors. Krista Hinz, ASU News, February 2022.
  4. Simple robots, smart algorithms. EurekAlert, April 2021.
  5. Greater than the sum of its parts. Gary Werner, ASU News, April 2021.
  6. Greater than the sum of its parts. Gary Werner, Full Circle, April 2021.
  7. Listen to Dr. Andréa W. Richa discuss the challenges faced by female professors on Professerror podcast. A general episode guide can be found here.
  8. Advancing the Theory of Programmable Matter for Swarm Robotics and Multi-Agent Systems. Jean Salac, Conquer, February 2021.
  9. SSS 2020 Report 2: Compression of programmable matter. Laurent Feuilloley. Discrete Notes, November 2020.
  10. Inspiring Equality in STEM for International Women in Engineering Day. Erik Wirtanen, ASU FullCircle, 2019.
  11. The Superpowers of Swarms. Cressida Lyon, Futurum, 2019.
  12. Georgia Tech Team Receives $6.25 Million to Study Collective Emergent Behavior. Tess Malone, Georgia Tech News Center, 2019.
  13. MURI Award Brings ASU to the Forefront of Emergent Computing. Monique Clement, ASU FullCircle, 2019. (Also in the CIDSE 2019 Annual Report, ASU Now and Diversity in Action).
  14. DOD Announces Fiscal Year 2019 University Research Funding Awards. U.S. Department of Defense, 2019.
  15. Smart Swarms Seek New Ways to Cooperate. Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 2018. (Also in ACM TechNews).
  16. Opening Paths to Progress with Programmable Materials. Joe Kullman, ASU Now, 2017. (Also in ASU FullCircle and ACM TechNews).
  17. Computer Science Research Talents Bring Undergrads Honors. Joe Kullman, ASU InnerCircle, 2016.
  18. A Creeping Model of Computation. Dick Lipton and Ken Regan, Gödel’s Lost Letter and P=NP, 2016.
  19. Computer Science Undergraduate Recognized for Potential in Computing Research. Rose Serago, ASU InnerCircle, 2016.
  20. Programmable Material Algorithm Solves Universal Coating Problem. MIT Technology Review, 2016.

Awards

  1. 2026 Student Catalyst Award — Anya Chaturvedi. Awarded by the ASU Committee for Campus Inclusion.
  2. 2026 GSG Outstanding Research Award — Anya Chaturvedi. Awarded by the Graduate Student Government, ASU.
  3. 2026 GSG Outstanding Mentorship Award — Anya Chaturvedi. Awarded by the Graduate Student Government, ASU.
  4. 2024 SCAI CS Outstanding Undergraduate Selection — Peter Vargas. Awarded by the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering.
  5. 2024 FURI Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award — Andréa W. Richa. Awarded by the Fulton Undergraduate Research Initiative (FURI), Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering.
  6. 2022 ASU President’s Professor — Andréa W. Richa. Awarded by Arizona State University.
  7. 2022 Fulton Fellowship — Anya Chaturvedi. Awarded by Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering.
  8. 2021 Outstanding Graduate — Rebecca Martin. Awarded by Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering.
  9. 2021 FWA Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award — Andréa W. Richa.  Awarded by the Faculty Women’s Association, ASU.
  10. 2020 Engineering Graduate Fellowship — Anya Chaturvedi. Awarded by Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering.
  11. 2020 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award, Honorable Mention — Joseph Briones. Awarded by the Computing Research Association (CRA).
  12. 2017 Best Senior Researcher Award — Andréa W. Richa. Awarded by the School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering (CIDSE), Arizona State University.
  13. 2017 Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering Outstanding PhD Award — Zahra Derakhshandeh. Awarded by the School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering (CIDSE), Arizona State University.
  14. 2017 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award, Finalist — Alexandra Porter. Awarded by the Computing Research Association (CRA).
  15. 2016 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Male Researcher Award for PhD Granting Institutions, Honorable Mention — Joshua J. Daymude. Awarded by the Computing Research Association (CRA).
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