Tanzeem Choudhury Explained

Tanzeem Choudhury
Birth Place:Bangladesh
Fields:mHealth, Ubiquitous computing, Mobile phone based sensing software
Workplaces:Intel Research Lablets, Dartmouth College, Cornell, Optum Labs (UnitedHealth Group), Cornell Tech
Alma Mater:Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thesis Title:Sensing and Modeling Human Networks
Thesis Url:https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/16622
Thesis Year:2004
Doctoral Advisor:Alex Pentland
Awards:MIT Technology Review TR35, ACM Distinguished Member, ACM Ubiquitous Computing 10-year Impact Award, ACM Fellow, ACM SIGCHI Academy

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.

Prof. Choudhury heads the People Aware Computing Lab[4] and the Precision Behavioral Health Initiative[5] at Cornell Tech.[6] Work from her group includes using smartphone data to help predict schizophrenia relapses[7] and developing a wearable sensor that listens for sounds that indicate activity and mood.[8]

Career

Choudhury did her undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of Rochester.[9] She then went on to earn a PhD at the MIT Media Lab, supervised by Sandy Pentland.[10] After her PhD, she joined the Intel Research Lab in Seattle,[11] 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,[12] before going on to become a faculty member in Computing and Information Science at Cornell in Ithaca.[13] She and her research group are now based at the Cornell Tech campus in New York City.[14]

Recognition

Choudhury is a recipient of the MIT Technology Review TR35 award,[15] NSF CAREER award,[16] a TED Fellowship,[17] and a Ubiquitous Computing 10-year Impact Award,[18] and has been a featured speaker at PopTech[19] and TEDMED.[20] She was named a 2021 ACM Fellow "for contributions to mobile systems for behavioral sensing and health interventions".[21]

Notes and References

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

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