Tanzeem Choudhury

Tanzeem Choudhury
Born1975 (age 49–50)
Bangladesh
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology
AwardsMIT Technology Review TR35, ACM Distinguished Member, ACM Ubiquitous Computing 10-year Impact Award, ACM Fellow, ACM SIGCHI Academy
Scientific career
FieldsmHealth, Ubiquitous computing, Mobile phone based sensing software
InstitutionsIntel Research Lablets, Dartmouth College, Cornell, Optum Labs (UnitedHealth Group), Cornell Tech
ThesisSensing and Modeling Human Networks (2004)
Doctoral advisorAlex Pentland

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]

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]

References

  1. ^ "Cornell Tech - Tanzeem Choudhury". Cornell Tech. Retrieved 2021-03-18.
  2. ^ "Tanzeem Choudhury". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2021-03-18.
  3. ^ "Being a Bangladeshi woman in tech". The Daily Star. 2019-02-11. Retrieved 2021-03-18.
  4. ^ Technology for mental health | Tanzeem Choudhury | TEDxDhaka, retrieved 2021-03-18
  5. ^ "People-Aware Computing Lab - Cornell University". pac.cs.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2021-03-18.
  6. ^ Initiative, Precision Behavioral Health. "Precision Behavioral Health Initiative". pbh.tech.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2021-03-18.
  7. ^ "Initiative to employ AI in behavioral health monitoring". Cornell Chronicle. Retrieved 2021-03-18.
  8. ^ staff, E&T editorial (2020-10-14). "Smartphone data could help predict schizophrenia relapses". eandt.theiet.org. Retrieved 2021-03-18.
  9. ^ "Wearable Self-Tracking Tool Listens for Yawns, Coughs, and Munches". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 2021-03-18.
  10. ^ "Tanzeem Choudhury '97 : Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences". www.hajim.rochester.edu. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
  11. ^ "Tanzeem Choudhury's Webpage". alumni.media.mit.edu. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
  12. ^ "The Mobile Sensing Platform: An Embedded Activity Recognition System". www.computer.org. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
  13. ^ "Choudhury honored for tech research". The Dartmouth. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
  14. ^ "IS Prof Tanzeem Choudhury Named 2018 Distinguished Member | Cornell Computing and Information Science". cis.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
  15. ^ "Cornell Tech - Tanzeem Choudhury". Cornell Tech. Retrieved 2021-03-29.
  16. ^ "Innovator Under 35: Tanzeem Choudhury, 33". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 2021-03-18.
  17. ^ "NSF Award Search: Award#1202141 - CAREER: Enabling Community-Scale Modeling of Human Behavior and its Application to Healthcare". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2021-03-18.
  18. ^ "Censorship, tiny robots, Mars: 20 TED Fellows on stage in Whistler | TED Blog". Retrieved 2021-03-18.
  19. ^ "Ubicomp Awards". ubicomp.org. Retrieved 2021-03-18.
  20. ^ "Tanzeem Choudhury and Ethan Berke: Measuring wellness with mobiles". PopTech. Retrieved 2021-03-18.
  21. ^ "What if tracking mental health were as easy as tracking steps?". TEDMED. Retrieved 2021-03-18.
  22. ^ "ACM Names 71 Fellows for Computing Advances that are Driving Innovation". Association for Computing Machinery. January 19, 2022. Retrieved 2022-01-19.