Professor Elizabeth Mynatt is the Director of the GVU Center and the Associate Dean for Strategic Planning and Initiatives in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Mynatt played a pivotal role in creating the College of Computing Ph.D. program in Human-Centered Computing, integrating studies in human-computer interaction, learning sciences and technology, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, robotics, software engineering, and information security. In the last decade, Mynatt has directed a research program in ubiquitous computing and technologies adapted to everyday life. With work that began at Xerox PARC and has grown to fruition at Georgia Tech, she examines the pervasive presence of computation in everyday life.

Mynatt is a member of ACM’s SIGCHI Academy and a Sloan Research Fellow. Her research is supported by multiple grants from the National Science Foundation including a five-year NSF CAREER award. Other honorary awards include being named the Top Woman Innovator in Technology by Atlanta Woman magazine in 2005, the 2001 College of Computing’s Junior Faculty Research award and the 2003 College of Computing’s Dean’s Award.