Ellen
Zegura

General Information

Email:
ewz@cc.gatech.edu
Phone:
404-894-3152
Location - Building:
KACB
Location - Room:
3342
Roles:
Professor (any rank)
Primary Unit:
School of Computer Science

Details

Degrees with subject and Postdoc Experience:
Degree Type
D.Sc.
Subject
Computer Science
Year
1993
Institution
Washington University
Location
St. Louis, MO
Degree Type
M.S.
Subject
Computer Science
Year
1990
Institution
Washington University
Location
St. Louis, MO
Degree Type
B.S.
Subject
Computer Science
Year
1987
Institution
Washington University
Location
St. Louis, MO
Degree Type
B.S.
Subject
Electrical Engineering
Year
1987
Institution
Washington University
Location
St. Louis, MO
Statement of Research Interests:

Ellen Zegura works in two primary areas, computer networking and computing for public 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 for public good includes work in Liberia with the Carter Center, with Native Americans in Southern California, and with residents of the Westside of Atlanta.

Statement of Teaching Interests:

Ellen Zegura teaches across multiple areas of the curriculum, including computer networking, computing and ethics, and discrete math. She has taught on the Atlanta campus and three times in the summer program in Barcelona.

Selection of recent research, scholarly, and creative activities:

B. Palacios Abad, E. Belding, M. Vigil-Hayes, and E. Zegura. “Note: Towards Community-Empowered Network Data Action.” In ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS), June 2022.

 

Q. Kreth, D. Schiff, J. Lee, E. Zegura, J. Borenstein. “Social Responsibility Attitudes Among Undergraduate Computer Science Students: An Empirical Analysis,” 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, August 2022. Best paper award for the ASEE Engineering Ethics Division.

 

B. Palacios Abad, M. Vigil-Hayes, and E. Zegura. “Alone and Together: Resilience in a Fluid Socio-Technical-Natural System,” ACM SIGCHI Computer Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW) 2023.

 

R. MacDonald, C. Zegura, B. Shapiro, J. Borenstein, and E. Zegura. “Developing Community Support for Computing Ethics Teaching Assistants,” ACM SIGCSE Computer Science Education, March 2023. 

 

C. Zegura, B. Shapiro, R. MacDonald, J. Borenstein, and E. Zegura. “Moment to Moment”: A View From the Front Lines with Computing Ethics Teaching Assistants,” ACM SIGCHI Human Factors in Computer Systems, April 2023. 

 

J. He, M. Ammar, and E. Zegura, “A Measurement-Derived Functional Model for the Interaction

 between Congestion Control and QoE in Video Conferencing,” Passive and Active Measurement Conference 2023 (PAM 2023), March 2023. 

 

J. He, M. Ammar, E. Zegura, E. Halepovic, T. Karagioules, “QoE Metrics for Interactivity in Video Conferencing Applications: Definition and Evaluation Methodology,” ACM Multimedia Systems (MMSys 2024), April 2024.