Deborah Estrin is a Professor of Computer Science at Cornell Tech in New York City where she founded the Jacobs Institute's Health Tech Hub. She holds The Robert V. Tishman Founder's Chair and serves as the Associate Dean for Impact. Her research interests are at the intersection of patient-centric health applications, personalization, and privacy (TEDMED). Estrin co-founded the non-profit startup, Open mHealth and has served on several scientific advisory boards for early stage mobile health startups.
Before joining Cornell University 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.
Estrin's primary field of work is mobile systems and applications, including: mobile health, personal informatics, and privacy. She works closely with clinical researchers to develop novel techniques for chronic disease management using smartphone data capture and analytics. Earlier in her career, Estrin contributed to the design of Internet protocols, and later to embedded networked sensing systems, with emphasis on environmental monitoring applications. Since 2006, she has focused on mobile forms of sensing, particularly leveraging the location, activity, image, and user-contributed data streams being made available from mobile phones and Internet of Things devices more generally.
Estrin's teaching interests include: Health Tech, Internet Protocols, Mobile Systems, and Personal Informatics
