He has been actively engaged in Computer Society Board of Governors, conference, technical committee, and publication activities for over 10 years. He also has been secretary of the Board of Governor's Executive Committee, associate editor in chief, and editor in chief for IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, and an associate editor for IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications magazine. Ebert has been a member of the Computer Society Publications Board, IEEE Computer Society Integrity Chair, an Executive Committee member of the Visualization and  Graphics Technical Committee, and also on the ACM SIGGRAPH Executive Committee. He has been conference cochair, and papers cochair of nine Society co-sponsored conferences and led the IEEE Visualization and Analytics Science and Technology conference advisory board.

Ebert also is director of the Visual Analytics for Command Control and Interoperability Center, a Department of Homeland Security Center of Excellence. He holds a PhD in computer science from Ohio State University and performs research in visualization, visual analytics, and computer graphics. Ebert is an IEEE Fellow and received the Golden Core member and Meritorious Service Award for his Computer Society activities.