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

Farming Electrons: Galvanic vs. Microbial Energy in Soil Batteries, C. Josephson, N. Jackson, P. Panutto. Submitted 2020
Time-of-Flight Soil Moisture Estimation Using RF Backscatter, C. Josephson, B. Barnhart, S. Katti, K. Winstein, R. Chandra. IGARSS 2020
RF Soil Moisture Sensing via Radar Backscatter Tags, C. Josephson, B. Barnhart, S. Katti, K. Winstein, R. Chandra. ArXiv, IPSN '20 (demo)
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

2020 Rising Star in EECS
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

Prof. Muriel Medard

thesis

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.