Deborah Estrin

Deborah Estrin is the Robert V. Tishman ’37 professor of computer science at Cornell Tech and the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science. At Cornell Tech, she serves as the Associate Dean for Impact. She is also an affiliate faculty member at Weill Cornell Medicine.

Estrin founded the Public Interest Technology Initiative (PiTech) at Cornell Tech. Estrin’s current research activities focus on digital health, including emerging technologies that augment telemedicine and caregiving.

Before joining Cornell, Estrin was the founding director of the NSF Center for Embedded Networked Sensing at the University of California, Los Angeles, pioneering the development of mobile and wireless systems to collect and analyze real-time data about the physical world. Estrin co-founded the nonprofit startup Open mHealth and has served on several scientific advisory boards for early-stage mobile health startups, as well as being an Amazon Scholar.

Estrin’s honors include: the IEEE Internet Award, the MacArthur Fellowship, and the IEEE John von Neumann Medal. She is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the National Academy of Medicine. She was awarded honorary doctorates from the EPFL, Uppsala, and Concordia.