Ruta Mehta is an Associate Professor of Computer Science, an affiliate of Coordinated Science Laboratory, and a founding member of AImpact Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to joining UIUC, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Simons Institute, UC Berkeley, and at College of Computing, Georgia Tech. She received her Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India. Her research is at the intersection of theoretical computer science, economics, games theory, and machine learning. She on the editorial board of Math. of Operations Research (MOR) and Algorithmica, and has served as chair for flagship conferences and events. 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.