Ellen Zegura is a Regents' Professor, Stephen Fleming Chair in Telecommunications, and Professor in the School of Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology's College of Computing. She holds B.S. degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering (both 1987), an M.S. in Computer Science (1990), and a D.Sc. in Computer Science (1993), all from Washington University in St. Louis. A faculty member since 1993, she has served in key leadership roles including Assistant Dean for Space and Facilities Planning (2000-2003), Interim Dean of the College of Computing (2002), Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs (2003-2005), Chair of the Computing Science and Systems Division (from 2005), and founding Chair of the School of Computer Science (2005-2012). Named a Regents' Professor in 2020, she received the Class of 1934 Distinguished Professor Award in 2023 for her sustained excellence in research, teaching, and service.

Zegura's research in computer networking covers wide-area Internet services, mobile wireless networking for disruption-tolerant environments, and computing for social good. She co-founded the College's Computing for Good initiative in 2008 and directs the Computing & Society Lab, partnering with communities including Westside Atlanta residents, Native Americans in Southern California, and the Carter Center in Liberia. Her pioneering GT-ITM Internet topology modeling tools have garnered over 2400 citations, while message ferrying approaches for sparse mobile ad hoc networks exceed 1600 citations. Key publications include "How to Model an Internetwork" (INFOCOM 1996), "A Message Ferrying Approach for Data Delivery in Sparse Mobile Ad Hoc Networks" (MobiHoc 2004), and "The Road to SDN: An Intellectual History of Programmable Networks" (SIGCOMM CCR 2014). Recent works explore QoE in video conferencing (MMSys 2024), ethics in computing education (CHI 2023, SIGCSE 2023), and community data action (COMPASS 2022). An IEEE Fellow and ACM Fellow, she served on the NSF CISE Advisory Committee (2005-2009), chaired the Computing Research Association Board (2018), and joined its Executive Board in 2014, advancing ethical and societal computing.

Professional Email: ewz@cc.gatech.edu