Deborah Estrin

Deborah Estrin (December 6, 1959 in Los Angeles ) is an American computer scientist. She is professor of computer science at Cornell University ( Cornell Tech) and Professor of Public Health (Public Health) at Weill Cornell Medical College.

She is the daughter of the computer scientist and professor at UCLA Gerald Estrin. Estrin studied at the University of California, Berkeley with a Bachelor 's degree in 1980 and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she received her doctorate in computer science in 1985 at Jerome Saltzer (* 1939) ( Access to Inter- Organization Computer Networks). Then she was at the University of Southern California ( USC). From 2000 she was a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA ), and from 2013 at Cornell University.

At UCLA she was Jon Postel Professor of computer networks and 2001, founding director of the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing ( CENS ).

Estrin is known for pioneering work on sensor networks ( Embedded Network Sensing, ENS). At USC she focused in the 1980s on the design of network and routing protocols and software tools for large global networks. Their employment in sensor networks began in the late 1990s with a focus on networks for environmental monitoring. With John Heidemann and Wei Ye she developed in 2001 Sensor Media Access Control. Most recently she worked on networks with mobile sensors (such as from the mobile phones of participants) with applications for example in the health system. In 2011 she co-founded the open source project Open mHealth.

She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2007) and the National Academy of Engineering ( 2009) and an honorary doctorate at the EPFL in Lausanne and Uppsala. She is a Fellow of the IEEE, the Association for Computing Machinery and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.