Colleen Josephson

PhD Candidate in Electrical Engineering, Stanford University

Office: Gates 100π (314)
E-mail: cjosephson at stanford dot edu

I am a fourth year PhD student in the EE department. My advisors are Sachin Katti and Keith Winstein in the Platform Lab, and my research interests are wireless sensing and communications systems. I have also worked with Ranveer Chandra (Microsoft Research) and Pengyu Zhang (Alibaba) on low-power wireless backscatter communication and its applications. In Fall 2017 I was a TA for EE107 Networked Embedded Systems.

My CV is available here.

Research

• RF Soil Moisture Sensing via Radar Backscatter Tags, C. Josephson, B. Barnhart, S. Katti, K. Winstein, R. Chandra. Submitted 2019
• BackCam: Wireless computer vision using commodity radios, C. Josephson, L. Yang, P. Zhang, S. Katti. IPSN 2019
• Using RF to sense soil moisture was my summer 2018 work at Microsoft Research
• FreeRider: Backscatter Communication Using Commodity Radios, P. Zhang, C. Josephson, D. Bharadia, S. Katti. CoNEXT 2017
• Presented a poster at the N2Women Workshop at SIGCOMM 2017
• Google Scholar Profile

Teaching

• EE107, Fall 2017

Awards and Honors

• 2019 D.E. Shaw Exploration Fellowship
• 2019 MIT Research Slam Finalist
• 2019 N2Women Workshop @ Sensys Best Poster Award
• 2018 NDSEG Fellowship Finalist
• 2016/17 Schlumberger Innovation Fellow
• 2015 Stanford Graduate Fellowship (declined due to deferral)

Education

• MEng in EECS at MIT, 2013-2014
My research advisor was Prof. Muriel Medard in RLE, and my thesis was on anonymous communications using network coding.
• SB in EECS at MIT, 2009-2013

Projects + Hobbies

• making lists
• yoga + rock climbing
• jazz saxophone and electronic music (check out CCRMA)
• my non-academic projects are listed on my personal website.