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Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers
10 Questions for Tanzeem Choudhury
Season 2013
Episode 23
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 computer programming class when she was 18 years old.
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