Deborah Estrin

Born: 1959

Country of Birth: USA

Nationality: USA

Ethnicity: White

UC Berkeley BS Electrical Engineering Computer Science (EECS) 1980; MIT MS 1982 & PhD 1985 both EECS

"“mHealth strategies can leverage pervasive mobile technologies and powerful cloud based analytics to create patient-centric tools for chronic disease management,” she says. “I collaborate with clinical experts to identify new approaches to passive data collection and inference and am working toward developing 'behavioral biomarkers' that can fill gaps in the data clinicians need in order to deliver precision personalized care.” (engr.cornell.edu); “Both of my parents had PhDs in electrical engineering and were very engaged in the inventive community of academics from the early history of computing. I have always viewed this discipline as an exciting and intellectually rewarding way to have positive impact in the world.” (engr.cornell.edu); “The same data that is useful to help [us] understand how someone is responding to a therapy or a drug is also data that can be very exposing about them. I am interested in developing new ways to put these data and technologies to use in a way that is more privacy-aware from the perspective of the user and context than is typical in our social media-dominated online lives.” (tynker.com); "In the long term, embedded networked sensing systems are likely to be in the car you drive to work; in the roads, embankments and traffic lights by which you drive; in the parking structures; in complex environments like hospital rooms; as well as outpatient monitoring setups in the home." (encyclopedia.com); "

— Deborah Estrin

Field of Study: Computer Science

Institution/Corporation: Cornell Tech; MIT

Degrees & Memberships: Honorary Degrees: EPFL (2008), Uppsala (2011), Concordia (2023); Member: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2007), National Academy of Engineering (2009), National Academy of Medicine (2019),

Awards: 2006 ACM Athena Lecture; 2007 Anita Borg Institute's Women of Vision Award for Innovation; 2017 the IEEE Internet Award; 2018 MacArthur Fellowship; 2022 the IEEE John von Neumann Medal; 2003 named one of Popular Science's "Brilliant 10;" 1987 National Science Foundation's Presidential Young Investigator Award; 2008 Women in Technology International Hall of Fame Award;

Achievements: co-founder of the non-profit Open mHealth; known for her work on sensor networks, participatory sensing, mobile health, and small data; research activities include technologies for caregiving, immersive health, small data, participatory sensing, and Public Interest Technology; Founding Director of the NSF Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS) at UCLA; pioneering the development of mobile and wireless systems to collect and analyze real time data about the physical world;