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Deborah Estrin Professor of Computer Science CornellNYC Tech http://cens.ucla.edu/Estrin |
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Wednesday, October 17, 2012
The information about a persons health and medical conditions is complex, messy (getting messier) and usually hard to access. To make this information work for us, we need an open, flexible data architecture. And we're not just talking about electronic medical records here, but the increasing variety of available data streams, including the real-time monitoring of our bodies and behaviors, throughout every day. Deborah Estrin is taking on this challenge as the first academic hire at the new CornellNYC Tech Campus, bringing her pioneering work in networked sensing to the design of an open, mobile and self-determined health care ecosystem. There is a rich opportunity and need for the community of semantic technology developers and business leaders to bring the power of linked open data to patient-centric healthcare.
Deborah L. Estrin is a Professor of Computer Science, and the first academic hire for CornellNYC Tech, the new tech campus being developed on Roosevelt Island in New York City. She was previously the Founding Director of the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS) – funded by the National Science Foundation – and a professor of computer science at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). Estrin is a pioneer in networked sensing, which uses mobile and wireless systems to collect and analyze real time data about the physical world. Estrin’s work has shown how the data streaming from networks of devices such as smartphones and cameras can enrich our understanding and management of complex problems – from personal and public health, to traffic patterns and civic engagement. At CornellNYC Tech, Estrin brings her experience in applied sciences to a campus designed to break down the barriers between academic research and the tech industry.
Among her many honors, Deborah is the winner of the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame Award (2008) and Anita Borg Institute’s Women of Vision award for Innovation (2007), member of the National Academy of Engineering (2009) and American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2007). She was named as one of the "Brilliant 10" in Popular Science magazine's list of elite researchers, one of Wired Magazine’s 2012 “50 People Who Will Change the World” and one of CNN’s “10 Most Powerful Women in Tech”. She is also a co-founder of Open mHealth, a non-profit organization working to create an open-source infrastructure for the growing field of mobile health, which uses the wealth of live data made possible by mobile technology to revolutionize patient care.
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