Julia Gersey

About Me

I’m a first-year Ph.D. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Michigan, advised by Pei Zhang. I’m a member of the joint Structures as Sensors Lab between the University of Michigan and Stanford University. I’m majoring in Embedded Systems, which a focus on building hardware, systems, and sensing networks to address environmental and community challenges.

I earned my B.Sc. in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics from Baldwin Wallace University, where I was part of the Mobile & IoT for Planet and Society Research Group under the guidance of Brian Krupp. (Fun fact: he developed Ducky Weather, a weather app that respects your privacy!)

I’m the ‘Labz’ Editor for the ACM XRDS Magazine — contact me to have your research featured!

Research Interests

• Embedded Systems: internet-of-things, mobile computing
• Sensing Networks: wireless, environmental, and health sensing
• Human-Centered Computing: ubiquitous and pervasive networks

Publications

Peer-Reviewed

Other Articles

Recent News

• August 26, 2024: Started my Ph.D. at the University of Michigan!
• May 15, 2024: Award the Baldwin Wallace University Charles & Elsie Little Graduate Award
• May 3, 2024: Speaking about AQIoT project at the ACM SIGCAS Work in Progress event
• April 4, 2024: Received Honorable Mention for the 2024 NSF GRFP
• January 8, 2024: Selected as 1 of 55 Finalists for the NCWIT AiC Collegiate Award
• August 2023: Awarded the largest CIO Tomorrow Scholarship at $3,590
• July 2023: Paper on Air Quality Deployment results accepted to ACM CCSC Midwest Conference
• March 2023: Awarded a NASA Ohio Space Grant Consortium Research Scholarship for 2023-24
• March 8, 2023: Accepted into Carnegie Mellon’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute REU
• Feburary 24-25, 2023: Presented Air Quality Research at OCWiC Conference
• November 6-9, 2022: Received an ACM Student Travel Grant for ACM SenSys in Boston
• October 22, 2022: Accepted into Carnegie Mellon’s OurCS conference and researched Congestion Control with TCP Hybla
• October 2022: Air Quality poster was accepted to ACM SenSys 2022
• September 2022: Campus Plate paper was accepted to ACM RACS 2022
• April 2022: Awarded a NASA Ohio Space Grant Consortium Research Scholarship for 2022-23
• Feburary 2022: Featured in Cleveland Magazine’s article Baldwin Wallace Steps Up to the Plate
• September 2021: Featured in BW student-faculty computer science research group on a roll

Affiliations

• UMich ECE Grad Workshop
• Mobile & IoT for Planet and Society Research Group (MOPS)
• CS+ Outreach Group
• Baldwin Wallace ACM/ACM-W
• Baldwin Wallace Upsilon Pi Epsilon
• Carnegie Mellon HCII REU
• Carnegie Mellon OurCS Women in Tech
• NASA Ohio Space Grant Consortium
• ACM XRDS Magazine