Julia Gersey

About Me

I’m a first-year Ph.D. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Michigan, where I’m advised by Pei Zhang. My research spans Embedded Systems, Human-Centered Computing, Mobile Computing & Sensing, and the Internet of Things (IoT). I’m particularly interested in building sensing networks and mobile multimodal sensing systems that address environmental and community challenges. I’m an incoming Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellow (DOE CSGF), where my research will focus on integrating large-scale data collection, high-performance computing, and real-world sensing to support responsive, equitable, and data-driven urban environments. This work aims to develop systems capable of monitoring and analyzing rapidly changing city conditions to better serve its communities.

Outside of research, I serve as the Labz Editor for ACM XRDS Magazine, where I highlight emerging technologies, student projects, and creative applications of computing — reach out if you’d like your work 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

• April 9, 2025: Thrilled to receive a Department of Energy Computational Science Fellowship!
• March 10, 2025: ‘Sniffing out the City’ Poster was accepted to ACM SenSys 2025
• December 20, 2024: Accepted to Computing Research Association’s Grad Cohort for Women
• August 26, 2024: Started my Ph.D. at the University of Michigan!
• May 3, 2024: Speaking about AQIoT project at the ACM SIGCAS Work in Progress event
• April 2024: Honored to recieve the Baldwin Wallace University Woman of Achievement Award
• April 4, 2024: 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 top 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 Women-in-Tech conference
• October 2022: Air Quality poster was accepted to ACM SenSys 2022
• September 2022: Campus Plate paper was accepted to ACM RACS 2022

Relevant Affiliations

• DOE CSGF
• NSF Center for Pandemic Insights
• ACM XRDS Magazine
• UMich ECE Grad Workshop
• Mobile & IoT for Planet and Society Research Group (MOPS)
• Carnegie Mellon HCII REU
• Carnegie Mellon OurCS Women in Tech
• NASA Ohio Space Grant Consortium

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