Ruta Mehta is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests lie in theoretical computer science and its interface with economics, games theory, social choice theory, and learning. She serves on the editorial board of Math. of Operations Research (MOR), and Algorithmica. Prior to joining UIUC, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Simons Institute, UC Berkeley, and at College of Computing, Georgia Tech. She did her Ph.D. at the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay, India. For her research, she has received the NSF CAREER Award, the Simons-Berkeley Research Fellowship, and the Best Postdoctoral Award (given by CoC@GT). Her Ph.D. thesis won the ACM India Doctoral Dissertation Award and the IIT-Bombay Excellence in Ph.D. Thesis Award.