Ellen W. Zegura is the Fleming Chair and professor in the School of Computer Science at Georgia Tech. She received a B.S. in computer science, a B.S. in electrical engineering, an M.S. in computer science, and a DSc in computer science from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Since 1993 she has been on the College of Computing at Georgia Tech faculty, where she conducts research and teaches computer networking and computing for development. In 2008, she helped create the Computing for Good initiative in the College of Computing, a project-based teaching and research activity focusing on using computing to solve pressing societal problems. She is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the ACM, and an elected member of the Computing Research Association Board (CRA). She has been on the Executive Board of the CRA since the fall of 2014. She served on the NSF CISE Advisory Committee from 2005-2009.