Deborah Estrin

Deborah Estrin

Deborah Estrin (B.S. UC Berkeley, 1980; M.S. MIT, 1982; Ph.D. MIT, 1985) is a Professor of  Computer Science at Cornell Tech, holds The Robert V. Tishman Founder’s Chair, serves as Associate Dean for Impact, and is Affiliate Faculty at Weill Cornell Medicine. Estrin’s current research activities include technologies for caregiving, small data, Public Interest Technology. Previously, Estrin was the Founding Director of the NSF Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS) at UCLA; pioneering the development of mobile and wireless systems to collect and analyze real time data about the physical world. From 1986-2000 Estrin was a member of the Computer Science Faculty at University of Southern California and an active member of the USC/Information Sciences Institute and IETF research community. Estrin co-founded the non-profit startup, Open mHealth. Estrin’s honors include: ACM Athena Lecture (2006), Anita Borg Institute’s Women of Vision Award for Innovation (2007), IEEE Internet Award (2017), and MacArthur Fellowship (2018), IEEE John Von Neumann Medal (2022). She is a member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2007), National Academy of Engineering (2009), National Academy of Medicine (2019). She was awarded honorary doctorates from EPFL (2008) and Uppsala (2011).