"Sensemaking for Mobile Health," explores the possibilities of using data
from mobile electronic devices to monitor and manage health care.

Speaker Bio:
Deborah Estrin is currently on leave from her position as a Professor of Computer Science with a joint appointment in Electrical Engineering at UCLA, where she held the Jon Postel Chair in Computer Networks, and was Founding Director of the NSF-funded Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS, 2001-2012). She has accepted a faculty position with the Computer Science Department at the new Cornell Tech campus in New York City, http://tech.cornell.edu. Estrin received her Ph.D. (1985) in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and her B.S. (1980) from U.C. Berkeley.

Estrin’s early research (conducted while on the Computer Science Department faculty at USC and the USC Information Sciences Institute) focused on the design of network and routing protocols for very large, global, networks, including: multicast routing protocols, self-configuring protocol mechanisms for scalability and robustness, and tools and methods for designing and studying large scale networks. In the late 90’s Professor Estrin began her work in embedded networked sensing systems, with emphasis on environmental monitoring applications. Most recently her work focuses on participatory sensing systems, leveraging the location, activity, image, and user-contributed data streams increasingly available from mobile phones. Ongoing projects include Participatory Sensing for civic engagement and STEM education (http://mobilizingcs.org), and self-monitoring applications in support of health and wellness (http://openmhealth.org).