Residence New York, NY Fields Computer Science Name Deborah Estrin Siblings Judith L. Estrin | Role Professor Awards ACM-W Athena Lecturer Alma mater U.C. Berkeley, MIT Parents Gerald Estrin | |
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Born Deborah Lynn Estrin December 6, 1959 (age 64) ( 1959-12-06 ) Education Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California, Berkeley Similar People | ||
Doctoral advisor Jerome H. Saltzer | ||
Deborah estrin small data can show big health changes
Deborah Estrin 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.
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Deborah was previously a Professor of Computer Science and the founding director of the NSF-funded Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS) at UCLA.
In 2003, Popular Science named her one of their "Brilliant 10" for that year.
In 2007, Estrin was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2009 was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering. She is a fellow of the ACM and the IEEE.
Deborah Estrin received the degree honoris causa from EPFL in 2008 during the master ceremony. She also received an honorary doctorate degree from Uppsala University, Sweden in 2011.
In 2012, Cornell Tech announced Estrin as the first academic hire to the high-tech campus in New York City.
She is the daughter of the late Gerald Estrin, also a UCLA Computer Science professor, and of the late Thelma Estrin, a pioneering engineer and computer scientist also at UCLA. She is the sister of Judy Estrin.