Deborah Estrin | |
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Born | Deborah Lynn Estrin December 6, 1959 |
Citizenship | United States |
Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley (BS) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MS, PhD) |
Known for | mobile health, small data, networked sensing |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Computer Science |
Institutions | Cornell Tech |
Doctoral advisor | Jerome H. Saltzer |
Doctoral students | Chalermek Intanagonwiwat, Gene Tsudik, Jeremy Elson |
Deborah Estrin (born December 6, 1959) 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.[1]
Estrin is known for her work on sensor networks, participatory sensing, mobile health, and small data. She is one of the most-referenced computer scientists of all time, with her work cited over 128,000 times according to Google Scholar.[2]
In 2009, Estrin was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for the pioneering design and application of heterogeneous wireless sensing systems for environmental monitoring.