Tanzeem Choudhury
Tanzeem Choudhury | |
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| Born | 1975 (age 49–50) |
| 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 at Cornell Tech. Her research work is primarily in the area of mHealth (improving health using mobile devices such as smart phones).
She was born in Bangladesh, and has written in The Daily Star about the experience of being a Bangladeshi woman in tech. She has also presented at TEDxDhaka.
Prof. Choudhury heads the People Aware Computing Lab and the Precision Behavioral Health Initiative at Cornell Tech. Work from her group includes using smartphone data to help predict schizophrenia relapses and developing a wearable sensor that listens for sounds that indicate activity and mood.