GVU Administration

Elizabeth Mynatt

GVU Center Director

Beth is the GVU Center Director, the HCC Ph.D. Program Faculty Coordinator and an Associate Professor in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Learn more about Beth on her GVU faculty profile.

Vivian T. Chandler, CEcD

Director, External Relations

Vivian is primarily responsible for managing projects for the external relations office and establishing and maintaining relationships with sponsors that have formed or intend to form strategic partnerships with the Interactive and Intelligent Computing Division of the College of Computing and the GVU Center. She works with the GVU director to ensure an effective and collaborative atmosphere among all team members. Her duties include:

Work with faculty to identify, develop and maintain relationships that lead to viable partnerships
Interface with other groups on campus to facilitate fundraising for IIC and GVU
Organize and plan programs that further the missions of IIC and GVU
Work with communications and public relations staff to increase awareness of the programs

Don Schoner

Administrative Coordinator

Don’s primary responsibility is administrative assistance to the Director of GVU. He is liaison in financial and budgetary matters and procures needed supplies for the Research Center as well as for student research projects. Don also runs weekly GVU Staff meetings and plans annual GVU Faculty/Staff retreats.

In addition, however, he is also responsible for the routine operation of the GVU Research Center. Specifically, he manages food and space for weekly GVU Brown Bags, monthly Faculty/Staff luncheons, and GVU Industrial Partner visits. He reserves meeting room space for faculty and students and manages the GVU Student Travel Stipend program. Don also manages the GVU web site content.

Don is involved in planning and executing special GVU events and demos such as the annual Spring Research Showcase, Living Game Worlds, and Interactivity @ GT. Don is also involved in planning GVU receptions at major conferences (CHI, SIGGRAPH, etc.). Involved with the School of Interactive Computing administrative staff, he assists planning and running their events as well.

Paramount to Don’s responsibilities, however, is keeping chocolate on hand in the GVU Center.

Renata LeDantec

Marketing and Publicity Director

Renata is putting all of her effort in promoting the research of GVU's students and faculty. She is convinced that GVU does brilliant research and she thinks the world should know about it. Renata is also leading GVU branding activities and is heavily involved in the center's strategic planning. In addition to her responsibility for GVU promotional materials, she coordinates GVU symposia, research showcases, conferences and other major events including GVU's famous parties!

Tina Moseley

Accountant

Tina manages GVU's finances including all state accounts, as well the foundation account. This entails keeping up with all expenses, reimbursements, travel expenses and monies brought into each account. She manages approximately 40 different projects for six different faculty members of GVU as well as those of GVU Director Beth Mynatt. Tina keeps a tight budget on GVU's expenses so that most of the funds can be used for research and coming up with new and cool ideas.