Ellen W. Zegura
Professor, Associate Dean, and Division Chair

Computing Science and Systems Division
College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology

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Biography

Ellen W. Zegura received the B.S. degree in Computer Science (1987), the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering (1987), the M.S. degree in Computer Science (1990) and the D.Sc. in Computer Science (1993) all from Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri. Since 1993, she has been on the faculty in the College of Computing at Georgia Tech. She was an Assistant Dean in charge of Space and Facilities Planning from Fall 2000 to January 2003. She served as Interim Dean of the College for six months in 2002. Since February 2003, she has been an Associate Dean, with responsibilities ranging from Research and Graduate Programs to Space and Facilities Planning. She has spent five years as the user representative in the planning of the Klaus Advanced Computing Technologies Building, scheduled to open in Fall 2006. Starting in August 2005, she has chaired the Computing Science and Systems Division of the College of Computing. She is the proud mom of two girls, Carmen (born in August 1998) and Bethany (born in May 2001), whose pictures have never made it onto the web.

Prof. Zegura’s research work concerns the development of wide-area (Internet) networking services and, more recently, mobile wireless networking. Wide-area services are utilized by applications that are distributed across multiple administrative domains (e.g., web, file sharing, multi-media distribution). Her focus is on services implemented both at the network layer, as part of network infrastructure, and at the application layer. In the context of mobile wireless networking, she is interested in challenged environments where traditional ad-hoc and infrastructure-based networking approaches fail. These environments have been termed Disruption Tolerant Networks. More detail can be found on her publications page.

December 2005 version of CV.

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Publications

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Research Projects (Old and Newer)

• Message Ferrying for Disruption Tolerant Networks
• Interdomain Traffic Engineering
• Overlay Network Design and Optimization
• Active Networking
• Generalized Anycasting
• Modeling Topology of Large Internetworks
• Multicast in Large Internets

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Recent Teaching

• Computer Networks I (CS 3251)
• Computer Networks II (CS 4251)
• Computer Networks (CS 6250)
• Networked Applications and Services (CS 7270)
• Preparation for an Academic Teaching Career (CS 8803)

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Current PhD Students

• Ruomei Gao
• Hyewon Jun
• Sridhar Srinivasan
• Yang Chen
• Wenrui Zhao

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Graduated PhD Students

• Abhishek Kumar (2005), EagleEye Networks
• Meng Guo (2005), Google
• Pradnya Karbhari (2005), Google
• Shashidhar Merugu (2005), Riverbed Networks
• Richard Liston (2004) Assistant Professor, Ursinus College, Pennsylvania
• Youngsu Chae (2002), Samsung, Korea
• Fang Hao (2001), AT&T Lucent Technologies
• Tianji Jiang (2001), Cisco
• Zhiruo Cao (2001), Cisco
• Samrat (Bobby) Bhattacharjee (1999) Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland.
• M. Jeff Donahoo (1998), Associate Professor, School of Engineering and Computer Science, Baylor University.

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Advice on Research and Writing

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Hobbies

House projects:

• kitchen plant shelf
• kitchen window
• Maine photo
• family room quilt

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Contact information:

College of Computing, 801 Atlantic Drive
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0280
Telephone: +1 404 894 1403
Fax: +1 404 894 0272
Email: ewz at cc dot gatech dot edu

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