Tanzeem Choudhury

Tanzeem Choudhury
Born1975 (age 48–49)
Bangladesh
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology
AwardsMIT Technology Review TR35, ACM Distinguished Member, ACM Ubiquitous Computing 10-year Impact Award, ACM Fellow, ACM SIGCHI Academy
Scientific career
FieldsmHealth, Ubiquitous computing, Mobile phone based sensing software
InstitutionsIntel Research Lablets, Dartmouth College, Cornell, Optum Labs (UnitedHealth Group), Cornell Tech
ThesisSensing and Modeling Human Networks (2004)
Doctoral advisorAlex Pentland

Tanzeem Khalid Choudhury (born 1975) is the Roger and Joelle Burnell Professor in Integrated Health and Technology[1] at Cornell Tech. Her research work is primarily in the area of mHealth (improving health using mobile devices such as smart phones).[2]

She was born in Bangladesh, and has written in The Daily Star about the experience of being a Bangladeshi woman in tech.[3] She has also presented at TEDxDhaka.[4]

Prof. Choudhury heads the People Aware Computing Lab[5] and the Precision Behavioral Health Initiative[6] at Cornell Tech.[7] Work from her group includes using smartphone data to help predict schizophrenia relapses[8] and developing a wearable sensor that listens for sounds that indicate activity and mood.[9]

  1. ^ "Cornell Tech - Tanzeem Choudhury". Cornell Tech. Retrieved 2021-03-18.
  2. ^ "Tanzeem Choudhury". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2021-03-18.
  3. ^ "Being a Bangladeshi woman in tech". The Daily Star. 2019-02-11. Retrieved 2021-03-18.
  4. ^ Technology for mental health | Tanzeem Choudhury | TEDxDhaka, retrieved 2021-03-18
  5. ^ "People-Aware Computing Lab - Cornell University". pac.cs.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2021-03-18.
  6. ^ Initiative, Precision Behavioral Health. "Precision Behavioral Health Initiative". pbh.tech.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2021-03-18.
  7. ^ "Initiative to employ AI in behavioral health monitoring". Cornell Chronicle. Retrieved 2021-03-18.
  8. ^ staff, E&T editorial (2020-10-14). "Smartphone data could help predict schizophrenia relapses". eandt.theiet.org. Retrieved 2021-03-18.
  9. ^ "Wearable Self-Tracking Tool Listens for Yawns, Coughs, and Munches". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 2021-03-18.