Julia Gersey

About Me

I’m an Electrical & Computer Engineering Ph.D. student at the University of Michigan, advised by Pei Zhang as a member of the NohPei Lab. I’m majoring in Embedded Systems with a focus on building hardware, systems, and wireless sensing networks to solve unique environmental and community issues. In my free time, I enjoy using IoT for side projects, 3D printing, transforming old devices into PCB art, and web development.

Previously, I got my B.Sc. in both Computer Science and Applied Math at Baldwin Wallace University where I was a member of the Mobile & IoT for Planet and Society (MOPS) Research Group under my advisor, Brian Krupp. (bonus: he created Ducky Weather, a simple yet elegant weather app that doesn’t sell your location data ☺ )

I currently serve as the ‘Labz’ Department Editor for the student-led ACM XRDS Magazine – email me if you are interested in having your research highlighted!

Research Interests

• Embedded Systems: internet-of-things, mobile computing, ubiqutious networks
• Sensing Networks: wireless, environmental, & health sensing
• Human-Computer Interaction: interaction techniques, community empowerment

My undergraduate research focused on a low-cost, low-power solution for Air Quality sensing with Internet-of-Things (AQIoT), a mobile application to promote food recovery and reduce food waste, food insecurity, and student hunger on college campuses (Campus Plate), and combining machine learning models with audio/visual data to enhance a smart classroom sensing system (EduSense).

Publications

Peer-Reviewed

Other Articles

Academic News

• August 16, 2024: Started my Ph.D. at the University of Michigan!
• May 15, 2024: Award the 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
• September 2023: Joined the student-run ACM XRDS Magazine as the ‘LABZ’ Department Editor
• 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 20, 2023: Speaking at Cleveland’s Big Data Meetup
• March 8, 2023: Accepted into Carnegie Mellon’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute REU
• Feburary 24-25, 2023: Presented Air Quality Research at OCWiC Conference
• December 2022: Featured in BW Science Happens Here: Meet Julia
• November 9, 2022: Awarded a Women for BW Grant to support my trip to Guatemala to deploy BW’s student-built Medical Software System
• 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
• April 2022: Completed a Representation in STEM Research Project with BW STEM Scholars
• Feburary 2022: Featured in Cleveland Magazine’s article Baldwin Wallace Steps Up to the Plate
• January 2022: Selected for BW STEM Student Spotlight about my Campus Plate research
• 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
• Hack Club Summer of Making