Ph.D. Candidate in Electrical & Computer Engineering @ University of Michigan, building sensing systems that live at the edge (literally).
- 🔭 Currently a Visiting PhD Researcher at Argonne National Laboratory, building CrossSense: a multimodal contrastive learning pipeline over the Sage distributed edge-sensing infrastructure
- 🎓 DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellow (2025–2029)
- 📝 Editor-in-Chief, ACM XRDS Magazine
- 🌱 Always building side projects — homelab dev, wearables, and sensors for everything (including Hedgehogs!🦔)
- 🌐 More at juliagersey.com
Embedded Systems Mobile & IoT Sensing Edge AI Multimodal ML Environmental Monitoring
- CrossSense: multimodal contrastive embedding pipeline (RGB, thermal, audio, environmental) over Sage edge nodes
- Everything Sensor: autonomous multimodal acoustic + environmental monitoring platform for wildlife health & activity monitoring
- NeighborDrive: vehicle-mounted multimodal sensing platform combining air-quality, environmental, vision, and GPS data to study neighborhood-scale urban conditions
- JAQ: wearable air quality sensor (Julia's Air Quality) built on the Adafruit Feather ecosystem + iOS app integration
"I never am really satisfied that I understand anything; because, understand it well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand."
— Ada Lovelace
— Ada Lovelace