Elizabeth Michelle Belding is a computer scientist specializing in

mobile computing Mobile computing is human–computer interaction in which a computer is expected to be transported during normal usage, which allows for the transmission of data, voice, and video. Mobile computing involves mobile communication, mobile hardware ...

and

wireless network A wireless network is a computer network that uses wireless data connections between network nodes. Wireless networking is a method by which homes, telecommunications networks and business installations avoid the costly process of introducing c ...

s. She is a professor of computer science at the

University of California, Santa Barbara The University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara or UCSB) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Santa Barbara County, California, Santa Barbara, California with 23,196 undergraduate ...

Education and career

Belding graduated from

Florida State University Florida State University (FSU) is a public research university in Tallahassee, Florida. It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida. Founded in 1851, it is located on the oldest continuous site of higher education in the st ...

in 1996 with two degrees: one in computer science and a second in

applied mathematics Applied mathematics is the application of mathematical methods by different fields such as physics, engineering, medicine, biology, finance, business, computer science, and industry. Thus, applied mathematics is a combination of mathematical s ...

. Both degrees were Summa Cum Laude with Honors. She went to the University of California, Santa Barbara on a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, and completed her Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering in 2000. Her dissertation, under the name Elizabeth Michelle Royer, was ''Routing in Ad hoc Mobile Networks: On-Demand and Hierarchical Strategies'', and was jointly supervised by P. Michael Melliar-Smith and Louise Moser. She has been a member of the computer science faculty at the University of California, Santa Barbara since 2000.

Recognition

Belding was named

Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operation ...

(IEEE) in 2014 for "contributions to mobile and wireless networking and communication protocols". She was elected as an

ACM Fellow ACM or A.C.M. may refer to: Aviation * AGM-129 ACM, 1990–2012 USAF cruise missile * Air chief marshal * Air combat manoeuvring or dogfighting * Air cycle machine * Arica Airport (Colombia) (IATA: ACM), in Arica, Amazonas, Colombia Computing ...

in 2018 for "contributions to communication in mobile networks and their deployment in developing regions". One of her publications, on

Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector Routing Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector (AODV) Routing is a routing protocol for mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) and other wireless ad hoc networks. It was jointly developed in July 2003 in Nokia Research Center, University of California, Santa Barbara an ...

in mobile networks, was selected for the

SIGMOBILE SIGMOBILE is the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Mobility of Systems, Users, Data and Computing, which specializes in the field of mobile computing and wireless networks and wearable computing. Conceived in early 19 ...

Test of Time Award in 2018.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Belding, Elizabeth Living people American women computer scientists Florida State University alumni University of California, Santa Barbara alumni University of California, Santa Barbara faculty Fellow Members of the IEEE Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) American computer scientists 21st-century American women scientists