Tanzeem Choudhury
Professor in Integrated Health and Technology
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Tanzeem Khalid Choudhury (born 1975) is the Roger and Joelle Burnell Professor in Integrated Health and Technology[1] at Cornell Tech. Her research work is primarily in the area of mHealth (improving health using mobile devices such as smart phones).[2]
Tanzeem Choudhury | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1975 (age 50–51) |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Awards | MIT Technology Review TR35, ACM Distinguished Member, ACM Ubiquitous Computing 10-year Impact Award, ACM Fellow, ACM SIGCHI Academy |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | mHealth, Ubiquitous computing, Mobile phone based sensing software |
| Institutions | Intel Research Lablets, Dartmouth College, Cornell, Optum Labs (UnitedHealth Group), Cornell Tech |
| Thesis | Sensing and Modeling Human Networks (2004) |
| Doctoral advisor | Alex Pentland |
She was born in Bangladesh, and has written in The Daily Star about the experience of being a Bangladeshi woman in tech.[3] She has also presented at TEDxDhaka.[4]
Prof. Choudhury heads the People Aware Computing Lab[5] and the Precision Behavioral Health Initiative[6] at Cornell Tech.[7] Work from her group includes using smartphone data to help predict schizophrenia relapses[8] and developing a wearable sensor that listens for sounds that indicate activity and mood.[9]
Career
Choudhury did her undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of Rochester.[10] She then went on to earn a PhD at the MIT Media Lab, supervised by Sandy Pentland.[11] After her PhD, she joined the Intel Research Lab in Seattle,[12] which was at that time headed first by Gaetano Borriello and then by James Landay. Choudhury then joined the faculty of the Computer Science department at Dartmouth,[13] before going on to become a faculty member in Computing and Information Science at Cornell in Ithaca.[14] She and her research group are now based at the Cornell Tech campus in New York City.[15]
Recognition
Choudhury is a recipient of the MIT Technology Review TR35 award,[16] NSF CAREER award,[17] a TED Fellowship,[18] and a Ubiquitous Computing 10-year Impact Award,[19] and has been a featured speaker at PopTech[20] and TEDMED.[21] She was named a 2021 ACM Fellow "for contributions to mobile systems for behavioral sensing and health interventions".[22]