Effective immediately, Beth Mynatt’s promotion to distinguished professor is based on her scholarship and contributions to Georgia Tech and the College of Computing, as well as on her commitment to advancing computer science.

“This is a well-deserved honor and reflects Beth’s leadership on campus and throughout the computing community,” said College of Computing Dean Zvi Galil. “She is one of the most dedicated and insightful researchers I have had the privilege to work with in my career.”

Since joining the College of Computing faculty in 1998, Mynatt has had a number of leadership positions. She is currently the director of the Institute for People and Technology (IPaT) and the director of the Everyday Computing Lab where she investigates the design and evaluation of health information technologies. Prior to this she was director of the GVU Center.

Beyond her duties on campus, Mynatt also represents Georgia Tech within the global computing community.

She is the current chair of the Computing Research Association’s Computing Community Consortium, and she recently became a member of the National Academies’ Computer Science & Telecommunications Board. Mynatt was also selected as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in December 2015. She is a member of the SIGCHI Academy and a Sloan and Kavli research fellow.

After receiving her undergraduate degree from North Carolina State University, Mynatt earned her master’s degree and Ph.D. in computer science from Georgia Tech.