Before joining Cornell University Estrin was the Founding Director of the NSF Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS) at UCLA; pioneering the development of mobile and wireless systems to collect and analyze real-time data about the physical world. Estrin co-founded the non-profit startup, Open mHealth, and has served on several scientific advisory boards for early-stage mobile health startups and as an Amazon Scholar.
Estrin’s honours include ACM Athena Lecture (2006), Anita Borg Institute’s Women of Vision Award for Innovation (2007), the IEEE Internet Award (2017), and MacArthur Fellowship (2018). She is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2007), the National Academy of Engineering (2009), and the National Academy of Medicine (2019). She was awarded honorary doctorates from EPFL (2008) and Uppsala (2011).