Ellen Spertus

Professor
Ellen Spertus
Ph.D.
Professor Ellen Spertus Ph.D.
	Spertus in 2012
Born	United States
Education	New Trier High School; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, B.S., computer science and engineering, 1990; M.S., electrical engineering and computer science, 1992; Ph.D., electrical engineering and computer science, 1998;
Known for	App Inventor for Android; Leasing a General Motors EV1; Comparing male and female graduate student attitudes and progress;
Spouse	Keith Golden
Awards	Sexiest Geek Alive, 2001
	Scientific career
Fields	Computer science
Institutions	Microsoft; Mills College; Google;
Thesis	ParaSite: mining the structural information on the World-Wide Web (1998)
Doctoral advisor	Lynn Andrea Stein

Ellen R. Spertus is an American computer scientist who is currently the Elinor Kilgore Snyder Professor of computer science at Mills College, Oakland, California, and a former senior research scientist at Google.