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Tanzeem Choudhury

Tanzeem Choudhury is a computer science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Tanzeem Choudhury rather than just read about it. In short: Tanzeem Khalid Choudhury (born 1975) is the Roger and Joelle Burnell Professor in Integrated Health and Technology at Cornell Tech. Her research work is primarily in the area of mHealth (improving health using mobile devices such as smart phones).

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Reference excerpt

Tanzeem Khalid Choudhury (born 1975) is the Roger and Joelle Burnell Professor in Integrated Health and Technology at Cornell Tech. Her research work is primarily in the area of mHealth (improving health using mobile devices such as smart phones). She was born in Bangladesh, and has written in The Daily Star about the experience of being a Bangladeshi woman in tech. She has also presented at TEDxDhaka. Prof. Choudhury heads the People Aware Computing Lab and the Precision Behavioral Health Initiative at Cornell Tech. Work from her group includes using smartphone data to help predict schizophrenia relapses and developing a wearable sensor that listens for sounds that indicate activity and mood.

Career Choudhury did her undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of Rochester. She then went on to earn a PhD at the MIT Media Lab, supervised by Sandy Pentland. After her PhD, she joined the Intel Research Lab in Seattle, which was at that time headed first by Gaetano Borriello and then by James Landay. Choudhury then joined the faculty of the Computer Science department at Dartmouth, before going on to become a faculty member in Computing and Information Science at Cornell in Ithaca. She and her research group are now based at the Cornell Tech campus in New York City.

Recognition Choudhury is a recipient of the MIT Technology Review TR35 award, NSF CAREER award, a TED Fellowship, and a Ubiquitous Computing 10-year Impact Award, and has been a featured speaker at PopTech and TEDMED. She was named a 2021 ACM Fellow "for contributions to mobile systems for behavioral sensing and health interventions".

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Tanzeem Choudhury

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Tanzeem Choudhury claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In computer science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Tanzeem Choudhury before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Tanzeem Choudhury ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Tanzeem Choudhury

In research: Tanzeem Choudhury appears in computer science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Tanzeem Choudhury in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Tanzeem Choudhury is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1975 births, Bangladeshi computer scientists, Bangladeshi scientists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Tanzeem Choudhury outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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Frequently asked questions

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Because it connects several computer science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

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Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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