Tanzeem Choudhury

Tuesday, March 26, 2013 The Secret Life of Scientists and EngineersThe Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers

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Tanzeem Choudhury designs cell-phone apps that monitor your stress, sociability, and physical activity.

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Tanzeem is a digital late bloomer who only first touched a computer at the age of 18.

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About Tanzeem Choudhury

Tanzeem Choudhury is Associate Professor of Information Science at Cornell University where she leads the People-Aware Computing Lab. She and her team develop cell-phone apps that can track a person’s emotional well-being. Tanzeem herself was a digital late bloomer, only touching a computer for the first time in a college computer programming class.

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