Dr. Deborah Estrin

Professor

Biography

Deborah Estrin is the Robert V. Tishman ’37 Professor of Computer Science and serves as the Associate Dean for Impact at Cornell Tech. She is an affiliate faculty member at Weill Cornell Medicine. Estrin founded the Public Interest Technology Initiative (PiTech) at Cornell Tech, focusing on using technology for social good. Her current research activities primarily concentrate on digital health and the application of emerging technologies to enhance telemedicine and caregiving. Before her tenure at Cornell, Estrin was the founding director of the NSF Center for Embedded Networked Sensing at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she was instrumental in pioneering mobile wireless systems that collect and analyze real-time data from the physical world. Estrin has co-founded the nonprofit startup Open mHealth and has served on the scientific advisory boards of various early-stage mobile health startups. She is recognized as an Amazon Scholar. Estrin has received numerous honors, including the IEEE Internet Award and the MacArthur Fellowship, and is a recipient of the IEEE John von Neumann Medal. She is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the National Academy of Medicine, and has been awarded honorary doctorates from EPFL, Uppsala University, and Concordia University.

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