Deborah Estrin, PhD
Deborah Estrin 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. Her research interests are in digitally-enabled innovations that support patients and providers in optimizing clinical outcomes and quality of life. Estrin founded the Public Interest Technology Initiative (PiTech) at Cornell Tech, which promotes public impact as a component of graduate students' training and future careers. Estrin was previously 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 honors include: IEEE Internet Award (2017), MacArthur Fellowship (2018), and IEEE John von Neumann Medal (2022). She is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2007), National Academy of Engineering (2009), and National Academy of Medicine (2019).