Deborah Estrin
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Deborah Estrin | |
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| Born | Deborah Lynn Estrin December 6, 1959 |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Alma mater | U.C. Berkeley, MIT |
| Known for | mobile health, small data, networked sensing |
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| Fields | Computer Science |
| Institutions | Cornell Tech |
| Doctoral advisor | Jerome H. Saltzer |
| Doctoral students | Chalermek Intanagonwiwat |
Deborah Estrin is a Professor of Computer Science at Cornell Tech. She is co-founder of the non-profit Open mHealth and gave a TEDMED talk on small data in 2013.
Deborah was previously a Professor of Computer Science and the founding director of the NSF-funded Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS) at UCLA.
In 2003, Popular Science named her one of their "Brilliant 10" for that year.[1]
In 2007, Estrin was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2009 was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering. She is a fellow of the ACM and the IEEE.[2]
Deborah Estrin received the degree honoris causa from EPFL in 2008 during the master ceremony.[3] She also received an honorary doctorate degree from Uppsala University, Sweden in 2011.[4]
In 2012, Cornell Tech announced Estrin as the first academic hire to the high-tech campus in New York City. [5]
She is the daughter of the late Gerald Estrin, also a UCLA Computer Science professor, and of the late Thelma Estrin, a pioneering engineer and computer scientist also at UCLA. She is the sister of Judy Estrin.
Awards
- 2011: Doctor Honoris Causa Uppsala University, Sweden
- 2009: National Academy of Engineering
- 2008: Doctor Honoris Causa EPFL
- 2007: Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision Award for Innovation[6]
- 1987: National Science Foundation's Presidential Young Investigator Award
See also
References
- ^ PopSci's 2nd Annual Brilliant 10 | Popular Science
- ^ Estrin, Deborah
- ^ Magistrale 2008
- ^ Doctor Honoris Causa Presentation, Uppsala University
- ^ Cornell Chronicle
- ^ Fuller, Brian (18 October 2005). "Perlman, Samuelson, Tsao, honored for innovations". EETimes. UBM Electronics. Retrieved 29 June 2011.
External links
- TEDMED talk on small data, 2013
- Open mHealth
- Biography of Deborah Estrin
- Publications
- Video (6 min.) of Deborah Estrin being awarded the Anita Borg Institute's Women of Vision Award, 2007
- Video (4 min.) of Deborah Estrin's acceptance speech for the Anita Borg Institute's Women of Vision Award, 2007
- Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS) home page
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