Estrin entered the
University of California, Berkeley in 1977, majoring in electrical engineering and computer science (EECS). After graduating from Berkeley with a BS degree in 1980, she moved to the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she received her PhD (1985) in EECS under the supervision of
Jerry Saltzer. She has also received honorary degrees recognizing her work: a degree honoris causa from
EPFL in 2008, and an honorary doctorate degree from
Uppsala University, Sweden in 2011. Estrin was a professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern California between 1986 and 2001, and at the
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) between 2001 and 2013, where she was the founding director of the NSF-funded
Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS). In 2012, Cornell Tech announced Estrin as the first academic hire to the high-tech campus in New York City. At Cornell Tech, Estrin is the
Robert V. Tishman '37 Professor of Computer Science. She is also the founder of the Health Tech hub and director of the Small Data Lab, and a member of the Connected Experiences Lab. Estrin's research has focused on using mobile devices and sensors to collect and analyze data, with applications to health and well-being. Her research also explores immersive recommendation systems and the privacy implications of user modeling and data use. In 2007, she was elected a Fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 2009 was inducted into the
National Academy of Engineering. She is a fellow of the
ACM and the
IEEE for innovations in scalable network protocols and sensor network research. In 2018 she was elected as a
McArthur Fellow for "Designing open-source platforms that leverage mobile devices and data to address socio-technological challenges such as personal health management". She is the daughter of the late
Gerald Estrin, also a UCLA Computer Science professor, and of the late
Thelma Estrin, a pioneering engineer and computer scientist also at UCLA. She is the sister of
Judy Estrin, and a wife to Ache Stokelman. ==Awards==