Tanzeem Choudhury
{{Short description|Professor in Integrated Health and Technology}}
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| caption = Tanzeem Choudhury, presenting at PopTech 2011. Credit: Kris Krug
| birth_date = {{birth year and age |1975}}
| birth_place = Bangladesh
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| 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
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| 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{{Cite web|title=Cornell Tech - Tanzeem Choudhury|url=https://tech.cornell.edu/people/tanzeem-choudhury/|access-date=2021-03-18|website=Cornell Tech|language=en}} at Cornell Tech. Her research work is primarily in the area of mHealth (improving health using mobile devices such as smart phones).{{Cite web|title=Tanzeem Choudhury|url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-pyztDMAAAAJ|access-date=2021-03-18|website=scholar.google.com}}
She was born in Bangladesh, and has written in The Daily Star about the experience of being a Bangladeshi woman in tech.{{Cite web|date=2019-02-11|title=Being a Bangladeshi woman in tech|url=https://www.thedailystar.net/opinion/perspective/news/being-bangladeshi-woman-tech-1700221|access-date=2021-03-18|website=The Daily Star|language=en}} She has also presented at TEDxDhaka.{{Citation|title=Technology for mental health {{!}} Tanzeem Choudhury {{!}} TEDxDhaka|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfdrnggoXg4|language=en|access-date=2021-03-18}}
Prof. Choudhury heads the People Aware Computing Lab{{Cite web|title=People-Aware Computing Lab - Cornell University|url=https://pac.cs.cornell.edu/|access-date=2021-03-18|website=pac.cs.cornell.edu}} and the Precision Behavioral Health Initiative{{Cite web|last=Initiative|first=Precision Behavioral Health|title=Precision Behavioral Health Initiative|url=https://pbh.tech.cornell.edu/|access-date=2021-03-18|website=pbh.tech.cornell.edu|language=en}} at Cornell Tech.{{Cite web|title=Initiative to employ AI in behavioral health monitoring|url=https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2021/01/initiative-employ-ai-behavioral-health-monitoring|access-date=2021-03-18|website=Cornell Chronicle|language=en}} Work from her group includes using smartphone data to help predict schizophrenia relapses{{Cite web|last=staff|first=E&T editorial|date=2020-10-14|title=Smartphone data could help predict schizophrenia relapses|url=https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2020/10/smartphone-data-could-help-predict-schizophrenia-relapses/|access-date=2021-03-18|website=eandt.theiet.org|language=en-US}} and developing a wearable sensor that listens for sounds that indicate activity and mood.{{Cite web|title=Wearable Self-Tracking Tool Listens for Yawns, Coughs, and Munches|url=https://www.technologyreview.com/2014/06/19/74418/wearable-self-tracking-tool-listens-for-yawns-coughs-and-munches/|access-date=2021-03-18|website=MIT Technology Review|language=en}}
Career
Choudhury did her undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of Rochester.{{Cite web|title=Tanzeem Choudhury '97 : Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences|url=http://www.hajim.rochester.edu/alumni_profiles/choudhury-tanzeem.html|access-date=2021-03-29|website=www.hajim.rochester.edu}} She then went on to earn a PhD at the MIT Media Lab, supervised by Sandy Pentland.{{Cite web|title=Tanzeem Choudhury's Webpage|url=http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~tanzeem/|access-date=2021-03-29|website=alumni.media.mit.edu}} After her PhD, she joined the Intel Research Lab in Seattle,{{Cite web|title=The Mobile Sensing Platform: An Embedded Activity Recognition System|url=https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/pc/2008/02/04487086/13rRUwd9CIL|access-date=2021-03-29|website=www.computer.org}} 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,{{Cite web|title=Choudhury honored for tech research|url=https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2008/09/choudhury-honored-for-tech-research|access-date=2021-03-29|website=The Dartmouth}} before going on to become a faculty member in Computing and Information Science at Cornell in Ithaca.{{Cite web|title=IS Prof Tanzeem Choudhury Named 2018 Distinguished Member {{!}} Cornell Computing and Information Science|url=https://cis.cornell.edu/prof-tanzeem-choudhury-named-2018-distinguished-member|access-date=2021-03-29|website=cis.cornell.edu}} She and her research group are now based at the Cornell Tech campus in New York City.{{Cite web|title=Cornell Tech - Tanzeem Choudhury|url=https://tech.cornell.edu/people/tanzeem-choudhury/|access-date=2021-03-29|website=Cornell Tech|language=en}}
Recognition
Choudhury is a recipient of the MIT Technology Review TR35 award,{{Cite web|title=Innovator Under 35: Tanzeem Choudhury, 33|url=http://www2.technologyreview.com/tr35/profile.aspx?TRID=696|access-date=2021-03-18|website=MIT Technology Review|language=en-us}} NSF CAREER award,{{Cite web|title=NSF Award Search: Award#1202141 - CAREER: Enabling Community-Scale Modeling of Human Behavior and its Application to Healthcare|url=https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1202141|access-date=2021-03-18|website=www.nsf.gov}} a TED Fellowship,{{Cite web|title=Censorship, tiny robots, Mars: 20 TED Fellows on stage in Whistler {{!}} TED Blog|url=https://blog.ted.com/online-censorship-life-on-mars-and-tiny-robots-19-ted-fellows-give-talks-in-whistler/|access-date=2021-03-18|language=en-US}} and a Ubiquitous Computing 10-year Impact Award,{{Cite web|title=Ubicomp Awards|url=https://ubicomp.org/sc/awards.html|access-date=2021-03-18|website=ubicomp.org|language=en}} and has been a featured speaker at PopTech{{Cite web|title=Tanzeem Choudhury and Ethan Berke: Measuring wellness with mobiles|url=https://past.poptech.org/popcasts/tanzeem_choudhury_and_ethan_berke_measuring_wellness_with_mobiles|access-date=2021-03-18|website=PopTech}} and TEDMED.{{Cite web|title=What if tracking mental health were as easy as tracking steps?|url=https://tedmed.com/talks/show?id=683108|access-date=2021-03-18|website=TEDMED}} She was named a 2021 ACM Fellow "for contributions to mobile systems for behavioral sensing and health interventions".{{cite web|title=ACM Names 71 Fellows for Computing Advances that are Driving Innovation|publisher=Association for Computing Machinery|date=January 19, 2022|access-date=2022-01-19|url=https://www.acm.org/media-center/2022/january/fellows-2021}}
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