Elizabeth D. Mynatt

Elizabeth Mynatt is dean of the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University. Her area of focus is how humans and computers interact. Mynatt is an internationally recognized expert in the areas of ubiquitous computing and assistive technologies. She has published more than 100 scientific papers, led grants from the NSF and NIH, and chaired the CHI 2010 conference, the premier international conference in human-computer interaction. Her research contributes to ongoing advances in personal health informatics, computer-supported collaborative work, and human-centered computing.

Mynatt serves as member of the National Academies Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) and the NSF Directorate for Computer, Information Science & Engineering Advisory Committee (CISE AC). She has been recognized as a member of the ACM SIGCHI Academy, and a Sloan and Kavli research fellow. Mynatt is the past Chair of the Computing Community Consortium, an NSF-sponsored effort to engage the computing research community in envisioning more audacious research challenges.