Deborah Estrin
University of California at Los Angeles, USA
Deborah Estrin is a Professor of computer
science at UCLA and Director of the Center
for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS),
a newly awarded National Science Foundation
Science and Technology Center. She received
her Ph.D. degree in computer science
from the MIT (1985) and was on the faculty
of Computer Science at USC from 1986
through mid-2000, where she received the
National Science Foundation, Presidential Young Investigator Award for her research in network interconnection
and security (1987). During the subsequent 10 years her research
focused on the design of network and routing protocols for
very large, global networks. Estrin has been instrumental in defining
the national research agenda for wireless sensor networks, first
chairing a 1998 DARPA ISAT study and then a 2001 NRC study; the
latter culminated in an NRC publication—Embedded Everywhere:
A Research Agenda for Networked System of Embedded Computers.
Estrin's research group develops algorithms and systems to support
rapidly-deployable and robustly operating networks of many
thousands of physically embedded devices. She is particularly interested
in applications to environmental monitoring. Estrin has
served on numerous program committees and editorial boards,
including SIGCOMM, Mobicom, SOSP, and ACM/IEEE Transactions
on Networks. She is a Fellow of the ACM and the AAAS.
Biography Updated on 30 March 2003
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