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Barnard Distinguished Lecture in Computer Science: Deborah Estrin (Cornell Tech)

Lynn Chu Classroom, Milstein LL002
  • Add to Calendar 2020-02-13 17:00:00 2020-02-13 17:00:00 Barnard Distinguished Lecture in Computer Science: Deborah Estrin (Cornell Tech) Speaker: Deborah Estrin, Cornell Tech Title: Participatory sensing: from ecosystems to human systems ***A reception, starting at 5 PM, precedes the talk.*** In this inaugural Barnard Distinguished Lecture in Computer Science, Professor Estrin will describe her research and practice in leveraging mobile devices and data to address socio-technological challenges, such as environmental monitoring, chronic disease management, and privacy-sensitive personalization.  Deborah Estrin is the Robert V. Tishman '37 Professor at Cornell Tech and in the Computer Science Department at Cornell University, and currently serves as Associate Dean for Impact at Cornell Tech. Professor Estrin  was chosen as a 2018 fellow of the MacArthur Foundation.  She is founder of the Health Tech Hub and directs the Small Data Lab at Cornell Tech, which develops new personal data APIs and applications for individuals to harvest the small data traces they generate daily. Estrin is also co-founder of the non-profit startup, Open mHealth. Earlier, she was the Founding Director of the NSF Center for Embedded Networked Sensing at UCLA, pioneering the development of mobile and wireless systems to collect and analyze real time data about the physical world and the people who occupy it.  Lynn Chu Classroom, Milstein LL002 Barnard College barnard-admin@digitalpulp.com America/New_York public
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Speaker: Deborah Estrin, Cornell Tech
Title: Participatory sensing: from ecosystems to human systems

***A reception, starting at 5 PM, precedes the talk.***

In this inaugural Barnard Distinguished Lecture in Computer Science, Professor Estrin will describe her research and practice in leveraging mobile devices and data to address socio-technological challenges, such as environmental monitoring, chronic disease management, and privacy-sensitive personalization. 

Deborah Estrin is the Robert V. Tishman '37 Professor at Cornell Tech and in the Computer Science Department at Cornell University, and currently serves as Associate Dean for Impact at Cornell Tech. Professor Estrin  was chosen as a 2018 fellow of the MacArthur Foundation.  She is founder of the Health Tech Hub and directs the Small Data Lab at Cornell Tech, which develops new personal data APIs and applications for individuals to harvest the small data traces they generate daily. Estrin is also co-founder of the non-profit startup, Open mHealth. Earlier, she was the Founding Director of the NSF Center for Embedded Networked Sensing at UCLA, pioneering the development of mobile and wireless systems to collect and analyze real time data about the physical world and the people who occupy it. 

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