Type of professor

President's Professor

Bio summary

Richa practices generous inclusivity with her students and academic community, teaches with empathy and clarity, and tackles challenging problems with rigor. She researches self-organizing particle systems, inspired by biocomputing. Some naturally occurring SOPS are coral reefs, schools of fish that come together to fight off predators and ant colonies. She and her students use this process found in nature to study and create algorithms that improve computational efficiency of very complex systems. In addition, Richa's six National Science Foundation-funded STEM scholarship programs helped retain hundreds of ASU students from underrepresented groups.