Bangladeshi professor among world's top young innovators
Sunday, 14 September 2008
Tanzeem Choudhury, an assistant professor of computer science at Dartmouth College Hanover, USA, has been named to the 2008 TR35, an annual listing from Technology Review magazine that features the world's top innovators under the age of 35, said a press release.
Choudhury, originally from Bangladesh, is recognised for her research in developing computational techniques to better understand, and perhaps someday predict, human activities and social interactions.
"I use sensors to make sense of people," says Choudhury, talking about using mobile sensors, tiny computers that can be embedded virtually anywhere, such as on a person, in cell phones, in a car or on a bicycle. "My research involves developing machine learning and sensing techniques to collect and analyze data about day-to-day human behaviour."
The younger daughter of Ms. Zakia A Choudhury, former secretary, and MK Choudhury, former president of Bangladesh Pharmaceutical Society, 33 years old Tanzeem worked at Intel after graduation and did her PhD at the MIT Media Lab.
She recently went to Dartmouth and has been conducting experiments with the sensor-laden iPhone. Within a couple of years a simple version of her software would be available for cell phones.
Choudhury, originally from Bangladesh, is recognised for her research in developing computational techniques to better understand, and perhaps someday predict, human activities and social interactions.
"I use sensors to make sense of people," says Choudhury, talking about using mobile sensors, tiny computers that can be embedded virtually anywhere, such as on a person, in cell phones, in a car or on a bicycle. "My research involves developing machine learning and sensing techniques to collect and analyze data about day-to-day human behaviour."
The younger daughter of Ms. Zakia A Choudhury, former secretary, and MK Choudhury, former president of Bangladesh Pharmaceutical Society, 33 years old Tanzeem worked at Intel after graduation and did her PhD at the MIT Media Lab.
She recently went to Dartmouth and has been conducting experiments with the sensor-laden iPhone. Within a couple of years a simple version of her software would be available for cell phones.