{"618991":{"#nid":"618991","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Ellen Zegura Becomes New CRA Board Chair","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Computer Science Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~ewz\/Welcome.html\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEllen Zegura\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E has been named as chair of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cra.org\/\u0022\u003EComputing Research Association\u003C\/a\u003E (CRA) Board of Directors.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECRA brings together industry, academia, and government to make computing research advances and strengthen education. Zegura has been a CRA board member since 2011, and an appointed member of the executive committee since 2014. Throughout her tenure, Zegura has served on several CRA committees and co-chaired the 2016 \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cra.org\/conference-at-snowbird\/\u0022\u003ESnowbird\u003C\/a\u003E conference.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The CRA board service provides a unique opportunity to work across institutions and sub-disciplines of computing on challenges and opportunities that we face as a computing research community,\u0026rdquo; Zegura said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAs the organization continues to grow, it\u0026rsquo;s capabilities need to expand as well. This will be Zegura\u0026rsquo;s focus as chair.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I welcome the chance to work with the board and CRA leadership on scaling CRA to a medium-sized operation while retaining the responsive capability to create and act on opportunities, especially in collaboration with the National Science Foundation and industry,\u0026rdquo; Zegura said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EZegura is the Stephen Fleming Chair for Telecommunications and has been at the College of Computing since 1993, where she researches and teaches networking and computing for social good.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShe is not the first GT Computing professor to shape the future of CRA. Founding Dean and Professor Emeritus \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/peter-freeman\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPeter Freeman\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E helped create the association, and Professor Emeritus \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/james-foley\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJim Foley\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E also served as chair.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGT Computing has a strong presence on the CRA board. Executive Associate Dean \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~isbell\/\u0022\u003ECharles Isbell\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E, School of Interactive Computing Chair \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ic.gatech.edu\/people\/ayanna-howard\u0022\u003EAyanna Howard\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E, and Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/vivek-sarkar\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EVivek Sarkar\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, Zegura\u0026rsquo;s fellow Stephen Fleming Chair for Telecommunications, also currently serve on the CRA board.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Ellen Zegura is the new chair of CRA."}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2019-03-08 17:00:20","changed_gmt":"2019-03-08 17:00:20","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-03-08T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2019-03-08T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"618036":{"id":"618036","type":"image","title":"Ellen Zegura","body":null,"created":"1550524714","gmt_created":"2019-02-18 21:18:34","changed":"1550524714","gmt_changed":"2019-02-18 21:18:34","alt":"Ellen Zegura","file":{"fid":"235261","name":"zeguraellen.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/zeguraellen.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/zeguraellen.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":60255,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/zeguraellen.jpg?itok=IvZFtnxW"}}},"media_ids":["618036"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETess Malone, Communications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Etess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}