Gita Sukthankar is Associate Professor and Charles N. Millican Faculty Fellow in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Central Florida (UCF), and an affiliate faculty member at UCF's Institute for Simulation and Training. Her research focuses on multiagent systems and computational social models. She received an Air Force Young Investigator award and an NSF CAREER award. She served on DARPA's Computer Science Study Panel and is currently a member of DARPA's Information Science and Technology study group and the board of directors of IFAAMAS.