Colleen Josephson
Assistant Professor at University of California, Santa Cruz
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolColleen Josephson is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC Santa Cruz with 11 years of experience designing low-power wireless communication and sensing systems. Her work bridges academic research and industry, spanning a PhD from Stanford focused on RF backscatter sensing to senior research roles at VMware and firmware engineering at Cisco Meraki. She develops novel sensing paradigms for agriculture and sustainable IoT, including soil moisture estimation via backscatter and ultra-low-power indoor sensor networks that harvest unconventional energy sources like microbes. Colleen has helped shape industry standards and sustainability priorities through leadership roles in the Next G Alliance, advancing “Green G” goals for future wireless generations. Recognized as a 2022 FFAR New Innovator and N2Women Rising Star, she combines deep systems-building skills with a creative focus on environmental impact. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, she describes herself as a “researcher without wires,” emphasizing hands-on innovation in backscatter and ambient-powered sensing.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
Github Skills (56)
usrp10
hardware10
driver10
fpga10
uhd10
asdf9
face-detection9
face-recognition9
python8
api8
convolutional-neural-networks8
sensor8
image-processing7
soil7
facial-recognition7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
lab11/soil-battery
Jul 2020 - Apr 2021
Materials for soil battery manufacture and analysis
Contributions:7 reviews, 23 commits, 4 PRs in 8 months
batterysoil
alumxi22/website
Aug 2020 - Dec 2023
code for alumxi.com
Contributions:12 reviews, 18 PRs, 24 pushes in 3 years 4 months
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