Tanzeem Choudhury | |
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Born | 1975 (age 48–49) |
Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Awards | MIT Technology Review TR35, ACM Distinguished Member, ACM Ubiquitous Computing 10-year Impact Award, ACM Fellow, ACM SIGCHI Academy |
Scientific career | |
Fields | mHealth, Ubiquitous computing, Mobile phone based sensing software |
Institutions | Intel Research Lablets, Dartmouth College, Cornell, Optum Labs (UnitedHealth Group), Cornell Tech |
Thesis | Sensing and Modeling Human Networks (2004) |
Doctoral advisor | Alex 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]