Tanzeem Choudhury

Tanzeem Choudhury is the Roger and Joelle Burnell Professor in Integrated Health and Technology at Cornell Tech, the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, and the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute. She is also the director of the Health Tech Hub at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute.

Choudhury directs the People-Aware Computing group, which creates wearables and multi-modal AI systems to better measure and intervene on health behaviors and symptoms. The group’s research includes creating novel on-body actuators, and clinical decision support that help individuals and also their clinicians take better health actions — both mental and physical. Choudhury co-founded two mental health AI companies, HealthRhythms and Dapple, with the mission of integrating behavioral health into all aspects of healthcare.

Choudhury received her Ph.D. degree from the Media Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As part of her doctoral work, she developed the sociometer and conducted the first experiment using mobile sensors to model social networks, which led to the establishment of a new field of research referred to as Reality Mining.

Choudhury holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Rochester, and M.S. from the MIT Media Laboratory. She has received the NSF CAREER award, the TR35 Award, the TED Fellowship, the PopTech Science Fellowship, the Kavli Fellowship, and the Ubicomp 10-Year Impact Award. She is an ACM fellow and member of the ACM SIGCHI Academy.