Deborah Estrin
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, Puneet Sharma, Nirupama Bulusu |
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.
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.
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.