[Colloquium] TOMORROW: Ellen Zegura (Georgia Tech) - Human-Centered Networking

[Rob Mitchum]

*Part of the Computer Science/Statistics/Data Science Institute
Distinguished Speaker Series
<https://datascience.uchicago.edu/news/autumn-2022-distinguished-speaker-series/>*

*Friday, December 2nd*
*12:00pm - 1:30pm (12:00 lunch, 12:30 talk)*
*In Person: *John Crerar Library 390
*Zoom: *Register
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ellen-zegura-georgia-tech-human-centered-networking-tickets-476593964377>
for details

*Ellen Zegura*

*Regents’ Professor and Fleming Endowed Professor in the School of Computer
Science*
*Georgia Tech*

*Human-Centered Networking*

*Abstract*: Engineers and computer scientists often isolate technical
problems away from the human and societal context in which they exist. In
this talk I will discuss problems, notable accomplishments, and research
methods in the intersection of networking and people. I will draw upon my
own experience working with tribal communities in the southeastern parts of
the United States and rural communities in Georgia, with a focus on recent
work to measure, map, and bridge digital divides that result from uneven
access to the Internet. Issues of Internet access are especially salient as
the Federal government prepares to spend $65B on broadband deployment as
part of the 2021 Infrastructure Investment Bill and Jobs Act.

*Bio*: Dr. Ellen Zegura <https://faculty.cc.gatech.edu/~ewz/Welcome.html> is
a Regents’ Professor and Fleming Endowed Professor in the School of
Computer Science at Georgia Tech. She works in two primary areas, computer
networking and computing for social good. In computer networking, she is
known for her work on the GT-ITM suite of Internet topology tools, which
remain in use 20 years after release (2400+ citations for primary
publication). In mobile wireless networking, she and colleagues invented
the concept of message ferries to facilitate communications in environments
where network connectivity is unreliable and/or sparse (1600+ citations for
primary publication). Her work in computing and social good includes work
in Liberia with the Carter Center, with Native Americans in Southern
California, and with residents of the Westside of Atlanta. She has
graduated 21 PhD students. At Georgia Tech, she served as Interim Dean
(2002), Associate Dean (2002-2005), and first Chair of the School of
Computer Science (2005-2012). She is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the
ACM, and an elected member of the Computing Research Association Board
(CRA). From Fall 2014 to Spring 2021, she was on the Executive Board of the
CRA, and she is immediate past Chair of the CRA Board.


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*Rob Mitchum*

*Associate Director of Communications for Data Science and Computing*
*Department of Computer Science*
*Data Science Institute*
*University of Chicago*
*rmitchum at uchicago.edu <rmitchum at ci.uchicago.edu>*
*773-484-9890*
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