Colleen Josephson

Assistant Professor, UC Santa Cruz

Dr. Colleen Josephson currently serves as an Assistant Professor in the ECE department at UC Santa Cruz. Her research interests include wireless sensing and communications systems, with a focus on technology that furthers sustainable practices. Other work includes designing novel sensing paradigms for agriculture, inventing techniques for ultra-low power communication in indoor sensor networks, and exploiting non-traditional energy sources, such as microbes, for sustainable sensing. Dr. Josephson received her PhD from Stanford University in 2020, advised by Sachin Katti and Keith Winstein. She received her MEng and SB degrees from MIT, where she worked closely with Muriel Médard. She formerly served as a research scientist at VMware.