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{{short description|American computer scientist}}
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| name                    = Deborah Estrin
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| birth_name              = Deborah Lynn Estrin
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| citizenship             = {{wipe|United States}}
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| field                   = Computer Science
| work_institution        = [[Organization:Cornell Tech|Cornell Tech]]
| alma_mater              = [[Organization:University of California, Berkeley|University of California, Berkeley]] (BS)<br/>[[Organization:Massachusetts Institute of Technology|Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] (MS, PhD)
| doctoral_advisor        = Jerome H. Saltzer
| doctoral_students       = Chalermek Intanagonwiwat, [[Biography:Gene Tsudik|Gene Tsudik]], Jeremy Elson
| known_for               = mobile health, [[Small data|small data]], networked sensing
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'''Deborah Estrin''' (born December 6, 1959) is a Professor of Computer Science at [[Organization:Cornell Tech|Cornell Tech]]. She is co-founder of the non-profit Open mHealth and gave a TEDMED talk on small data in 2013.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tedmed.com/speakers/show?id=17761|title=Deborah Estrin|website=TEDMED|access-date=2018-12-21}}</ref>

Estrin is known for her work on sensor networks, participatory sensing, mobile health, and small data. She is one of the most-referenced computer scientists of all time, with her work cited over 128,000 times according to Google Scholar.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=3_WYcR4AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao|title=Deborah Estrin - Google Scholar Citations|website=scholar.google.com|access-date=2018-12-21}}</ref>

In 2009, Estrin was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for the pioneering design and application of heterogeneous wireless sensing systems for environmental monitoring.

==Career==
Estrin entered the [[Organization:University of California, Berkeley|University of California, Berkeley]] in 1977, majoring in electrical engineering and computer science (EECS). After graduating from Berkeley with a BS degree in 1980, she moved to the [[Organization:Massachusetts Institute of Technology|Massachusetts Institute of Technology]], where she received her PhD (1985) in EECS under the supervision of [[Biography:Jerry Saltzer|Jerry Saltzer]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://destrin.smalldata.io/|title=Deborah Estrin|website=destrin.smalldata.io|access-date=2018-12-21}}</ref> She has also received honorary degrees recognizing her work: a degree honoris causa from EPFL in 2008,<ref name="honoris_causa_epfl2">{{cite web|url=http://direction.epfl.ch/page32368-fr.html|title=Direction - EPFL|website=direction.epfl.ch|access-date=2008-10-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080924195527/http://direction.epfl.ch/page32368-fr.html|archive-date=2008-09-24|url-status=dead}}</ref> and an honorary doctorate degree from [[Organization:Uppsala University|Uppsala University]], Sweden in 2011.<ref name="honoris_causa_uu">{{cite web|url=http://www.wisenet.uu.se/awards/estrin.shtml|title=WISENET|last=Networks|first=Uppsala Center for Wireless Sensor|date=6 September 2006|website=www.wisenet.uu.se}}</ref>

Estrin was a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern California between 1986 and 2001, and at the [[Organization:University of California, Los Angeles|University of California, Los Angeles]] (UCLA) between 2001 and 2013, where she was the founding director of the NSF-funded Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS). In 2012, Cornell Tech announced Estrin as the first academic hire to the high-tech campus in New York City.<ref name="cornell2">{{cite web|url=http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/June12/NYCEstrin.html|title=Deborah Estrin is first NYC tech campus faculty member - Cornell Chronicle|website=www.news.cornell.edu}}</ref> At Cornell Tech, Estrin is the Robert V. Tishman '37 Professor of Computer Science.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://tech.cornell.edu/people/deborah-estrin/|title=Cornell Tech - Deborah Estrin|website=Cornell Tech|language=en|access-date=2018-12-11}}</ref> She is also the founder of the Health Tech hub and director of the Small Data Lab,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://smalldata.io/|title=small data lab|website=smalldata.io|language=en|access-date=2018-12-11}}</ref> and a member of the Connected Experiences Lab.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://cx.jacobs.cornell.edu/|title=Connected Experiences Lab|language=en-US|access-date=2018-12-11}}</ref>

Estrin's research has focused on using mobile devices and sensors to collect and analyze data, with applications to health and well-being.<ref name=":0" /> Her non-profit startup, Open mHealth, created open data sharing standards and tools that allow developers of health applications to store, process, and visualize data.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.openmhealth.org/features/features-overview/|title=Digital Health Records|website=Open mHealth|language=en-US|access-date=2018-12-21|archive-date=2018-12-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181222082010/http://www.openmhealth.org/features/features-overview/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Her research also explores immersive recommendation systems and the privacy implications of user modeling and data use.<ref name=":0" />

Estrin has received numerous academic and popular recognitions for her research. She was named one of ''Popular Science''<nowiki/>'s "Brilliant 10" in 2003.<ref name="popsci">{{cite web|url=http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2003-08/popscis-2nd-annual-brilliant-10?page=2|title=PopSci's 2nd Annual Brilliant 10|website=popsci.com|date=18 March 2019}}</ref> In 2007, she was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 2009 was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering. She is a fellow of the [[Organization:Association for Computing Machinery|ACM]] and the IEEE<ref name="cens_bio">{{cite web|url=http://tech.cornell.edu/deborah-estrin|title=Deborah Estrin|website=Cornell Tech}}</ref> for innovations in scalable network protocols and sensor network research.<ref>
{{Cite web|
url=https://www.comsoc.org/membership/ieee-fellows/2004|
title = IEEE Fellows 2004 &#124; IEEE Communications Society}}
</ref> In 2018 she was elected as a McArthur Fellow for "Designing open-source platforms that leverage mobile devices and data to address socio-technological challenges such as personal health management".

She is the daughter of the late [[Biography:Gerald Estrin|Gerald Estrin]], also a UCLA Computer Science professor, and of the late [[Biography:Thelma Estrin|Thelma Estrin]], a pioneering engineer and computer scientist also at UCLA.  She is the sister of Judy Estrin, and a wife to Ache Stokelman.

==Awards==
*1987: [[Organization:National Science Foundation|National Science Foundation]]'s Presidential Young Investigator Award
*2007: Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision Award for Innovation<ref>{{cite web|last=Fuller|first=Brian|title=Perlman, Samuelson, Tsao, honored for innovations|url=http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4056086/Perlman-Samuelson-Tsao-honored-for-innovations|work=EETimes|publisher=UBM Electronics|accessdate=29 June 2011|date=18 October 2005|archive-date=3 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121003162959/http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4056086/Perlman-Samuelson-Tsao-honored-for-innovations|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*2008: Doctor Honoris Causa EPFL
*2009: National Academy of Engineering
*2011: Doctor Honoris Causa [[Organization:Uppsala University|Uppsala University]], Sweden
*2017: IEEE Internet Award
*2018: MacArthur Genius Grant<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.macfound.org/fellows/1009/|title=Deborah Estrin - MacArthur Foundation|website=www.macfound.org|access-date=2018-12-21}}</ref>
*2022: IEEE John von Neumann Medal

Estrin is featured in the Notable Women in Computing cards.<ref>{{Cite web| title = Notable Women in Computing| url = http://www.cs.duke.edu/csed/wikipedia/cards.html}}</ref>

==See also==
* Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.tedmed.com/talks/show?id=17762 TEDMED talk on small data, 2013]
* [http://openmhealth.org Open mHealth]
* [http://www.notablebiographies.com/news/Ca-Ge/Estrin-Deborah.html Biography of Deborah Estrin]
* [http://tech.cornell.edu/deborah-estrin/ Publications]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4_Fs7R-jwg Video (6 min.) of Deborah Estrin being awarded the Anita Borg Institute's Women of Vision Award, 2007]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQV4UEFzULU Video (4 min.) of Deborah Estrin's acceptance speech for the Anita Borg Institute's Women of Vision Award, 2007]
* [http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20090407035705/http://research.cens.ucla.edu/ Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS) home page]


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