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  • 2026 - Research.com Computer Science in United States Leader Award
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  • 2023 - Research.com Computer Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2018 - Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation
  • 2009 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For the pioneering design and application of heterogeneous wireless sensing systems for environmental monitoring.
  • 2007 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2006 - ACM Athena Lecturer Award Dr. Estrin's presented her Athena Lecture at the MobiCom 2006 Conference, September 2006. MobiCom, the International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, is sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE.
  • 2000 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2000 - ACM Fellow For significant contributions to the design of scalable Internet protocols, and for service to the networking community.

Overview

Deborah Estrin is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States and has an extensive record of publications across multiple specialized fields. Their work spans Medicine, Computer Science, and Psychology, with particular emphasis on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Artificial Intelligence, Applied Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and General Health Professions.

Their research has focused on key areas including Digital Mental Health Interventions, Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation, Mental Health Research Topics, Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data, Surgical Simulation and Training, Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting, and Augmented Reality Applications.

Frequent coauthors in their collaborations include Hongyi Wen, Michael Sobolev, Andrew Yin, Daniel A. Adler, and Tanzeem Choudhury.

Deborah Estrin has contributed significantly to several publication venues, notably:

  • JMIR mhealth and uhealth
  • JMIR Formative Research
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute
  • ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review

Recent publications include:

  • "Augmented Reality in Real-time Telemedicine and Telementoring: Scoping Review" (2023) in JMIR mhealth and uhealth
  • "Digital Health Applications in Oncology: An Opportunity to Seize" (2022) in JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute
  • "Revitalizing the public internet by making it extensible" (2021) in ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
  • "Perceptions About Augmented Reality in Remote Medical Care: Interview Study of Emergency Telemedicine Providers" (2023) in JMIR Formative Research
  • "A call for open data to develop mental health digital biomarkers" (2022) in BJPsych Open

Throughout their career, Deborah Estrin has received several awards, including:

  • Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation (2018)
  • Member of the National Academy of Engineering (2009) for the pioneering design and application of heterogeneous wireless sensing systems for environmental monitoring
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2007)
  • ACM Athena Lecturer Award (2006), with the Athena Lecture presented at the MobiCom 2006 Conference
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2000)
  • ACM Fellow (2000) for significant contributions to the design of scalable Internet protocols and for service to the networking community

Best Publications

  • Directed diffusion: a scalable and robust communication paradigm for sensor networks

    Chalermek Intanagonwiwat;Ramesh Govindan;Deborah Estrin

  • An energy-efficient MAC protocol for wireless sensor networks

    Wei Ye;J. Heidemann;D. Estrin

  • RSVP: a new resource reservation protocol

    Lixia Zhang;S. Deering;D. Estrin;S. Shenker

  • GPS-less low-cost outdoor localization for very small devices

    N. Bulusu;J. Heidemann;D. Estrin

  • Next century challenges: scalable coordination in sensor networks

    Deborah Estrin;Ramesh Govindan;John Heidemann;Satish Kumar

  • Geography-informed energy conservation for Ad Hoc routing

    Ya Xu;John Heidemann;Deborah Estrin

  • Medium access control with coordinated adaptive sleeping for wireless sensor networks

    Wei Ye;John Heidemann;Deborah Estrin

  • Fine-grained network time synchronization using reference broadcasts

    Jeremy Elson;Lewis Girod;Deborah Estrin

  • Directed diffusion for wireless sensor networking

    Chalermek Intanagonwiwat;Ramesh Govindan;Deborah Estrin;John Heidemann

  • Guest Editors' Introduction: Overview of Sensor Networks

    D. Culler;D. Estrin;M. Srivastava

  • Highly Resilient, Energy Efficient Multipath Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks

    Deepak Ganesan;Ramesh Govindan;Scott Shenker;Deborah Estrin

  • Recommendations on Queue Management and Congestion Avoidance in the Internet

    B. Braden;D. Clark;J. Crowcroft;B. Davie

  • Rumor routing algorthim for sensor networks

    David Braginsky;Deborah Estrin

  • The impact of data aggregation in wireless sensor networks

    L. Krishnamachari;D. Estrin;S. Wicker

  • Geographical and Energy Aware Routing: a recursive data dissemination protocol for wireless sensor networks

    Yan Yu;Ramesh Govindan;Deborah Estrin

  • Overview of sensor networks

    David Cruller;Deborah Estrin;Mani Srivastava

  • Instrumenting the world with wireless sensor networks

    D. Estrin;L. Girod;G. Pottie;M. Srivastava

  • A wireless sensor network For structural monitoring

    Ning Xu;Sumit Rangwala;Krishna Kant Chintalapudi;Deepak Ganesan

  • Habitat monitoring: application driver for wireless communications technology

    Alberto Cerpa;Jeremy Elson;Deborah Estrin;Lewis Girod

  • Protocol Independent Multicast-Sparse Mode (PIM-SM): Protocol Specification

    D. Estrin;D. Farinacci;A. Helmy;D. Thaler

  • How To Backdoor Federated Learning.

    Eugene Bagdasaryan;Andreas Veit;Yiqing Hua;Deborah Estrin

  • An Energy-Efficient MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

    Wei Ye;John Heidemann;Deborah Estrin

  • Next Century Challenges: Mobile Networking for Smart Dust

    Deborah Estrin;Ramesh Govindan;John S. Heidemann;Satish Kumar

Frequent Co-Authors

Ramesh Govindan
Ramesh Govindan University of Southern California
John Heidemann
John Heidemann University of Southern California
Mani Srivastava
Mani Srivastava University of California, Los Angeles
Jeff Burke
Jeff Burke University of California, Los Angeles
Eddie Kohler
Eddie Kohler Harvard University
Gaurav S. Sukhatme
Gaurav S. Sukhatme University of Southern California
Jeremy Elson
Jeremy Elson Microsoft (United States)
Deepak Ganesan
Deepak Ganesan University of Massachusetts Amherst
Scott Shenker
Scott Shenker University of California, Berkeley

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