People
Colleen Josephson
Principal Investigator
My name is Colleen Josephson, and I research wireless communication and
sensing systems, with a focus on how we can leverage sensing for
sustainability. I am an Assistant Professor at UC Santa Cruz, and
a research scientist at VMware. I also chair the Societal and Economic
Needs working group and co-chair the GreenG Working Group within the ATIS
NextG Alliance. I received my PhD in Electrical Engineering at Stanford in
2020. My advisors were Sachin Katti and Keith Winstein.
Sonia Naderi
Postdoc Researcher
Sonia is a Postdoc Scholar at the University of California Santa Cruz with
a focus on wireless sensor networks. Before joining University of
California Santa Cruz, she was graduate research assistant at WiSe-Net lab
and she received her Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering at the
University of Maine in September 2022. She was doing an internship during
her Ph.D. at Samsung Electronics America, working as a wireless system
structure design engineer. Her research interests include theory and
development of wireless communication systems, wireless sensor networks,
cooperative communications, artificial intelligence and signal processing.
John Madden
Assistant Lab Manager
John 5th year undergraduate at UC Santa Cruz working towards his B.S. in
Robotics Engineering. After he plans to continue towards a M.S. in
Electrical and Computer Engineering with a focus in Robotics, Controls, and
Cyber-Physical Systems. He help with administrative tasks, procurement and
managing the lab. With his extra time he acts as a jack of all trades,
helping his colleges with their research.
Stephen Taylor
Undergraduate Microbial Fuel Cell Researcher
Stephen Taylor is an Junior Specialist at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
With a focus on phenomena such as voltage reversal in microbial fuel cells, and designing
more robust containers for soil microbial fuel cells. Stephen graduated from UC Santa Cruz
in fall 2022 with a degree in Robotics Engineering.
Yawen is currently pursuing her PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Her research focuses on the energy efficiency and the
innovative integration of state-of-the-art technologies within the field of communication.
She is driven by a desire to contribute to sustainability efforts,
aiming to develop solutions that not only advance the field but also help protect the environment.
Eric Vetha
Undergraduate Researcher
Eric is 3rd year undergraduate Robotics Engineering student at UC Santa Cruz.
Eric is working on the software of wireless underground backscatter tags and
the radar which are used to collect information regarding soil moisture content.
Josie Dominguez
Undergraduate Researcher
Josie is an undergraduate at UC Santa Cruz working towards a B.S. in Electrical Engineering.
With a focus on electrical hardware and PCB design, she is pursuing research in RF and sensor design.
She will be participating in embedded systems/electronic integration research at UCSD over the summer for their Engineers 4 Exploration REU.
Matthew Kaltman
Undergraduate Researcher
Matt is an undergraduate studying Robotics Engineering with an emphasis in Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Matt is working with the Greener Greenhouses team to develop a sensing node that is powered and communicated to via Visible Light Communication.
Aaron Wu
Full Stack Developer
Aaron is a 4th year undergraduate Computer Science student at UC Santa Cruz.
He is working on developing the Open Sensing Platform that helps researchers monitor
sensor data from microbial fuel cells.
Former Members
Brian Govers
Research Assistant
Brian is a recent UCSC graduate with a degree in Electrical Engineering.
Now in his first year of the Electrical and Computer Engineering M.S.
program, he hopes to earn a degree with a focus in Robotics, Control, and
Cyber-Physical Systems. Brian is working on developing a communication
infrastructure to collect and process sensor data from the UCSC farm.
Revanth
Primary Research Assistant
Revanth Kottur Sivakumar is in the class of 2023 at Amrita University
(India). He majors in electrical engineering.