Summary of Research
My research bridges mobile computing, urban and environmental sensing, and applied machine learning. I focus on designing and deploying smart sensor networks to address environmental and community challenges. Through the DOE CSGF, my work integrates large-scale mobile data collection, high-performance computing, and real-world air quality sensing to support responsive, equitable, and data-driven urban environments. This research aims to develop systems that can continuously monitor and interpret rapidly changing city conditions, ultimately informing and empowering the communities they serve.
Publications
[7] Julia Gersey, Jatin Aggarwal, Jiale Zhang, Jesse Codling, Pei Zhang. Sniffing Out the City - Vehicular Multimodal Sensing for Environmental and Infrastructure Analysis. ACM SenSys 2025. (Best Poster Award)
[6] Jiale Zhang, Yuyan Wu, Jesse Codling, Julia Gersey, Adeola Bannis, Carlos Ruiz Dominguez, Ke Sun, Pei Zhang. On-Shelf Weight Difference Estimation Through Active Vibration Sensing. ACM SenSys 2025. (Poster)
[5] Julia Gersey, Brian Krupp, Jonathon Fagert. Pilot Study of Deploying IoT Micro Air Quality Sensors in an Urban Environment: Lessons Learned. 2023 ACM Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges Midwestern Conference.
[4] Julia Gersey. MOPS Research Group Empowers Communities: Baldwin Wallace University. ACM XRDS 30, 1 (Fall 2023), 74-75. (https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3625396)
[3] Brian Krupp, Julia Gersey, Jonathon Fagert, Tony Mlady. Towards Fine-Grained Air Quality Sensing in Urban Environments. 2022 ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems. (Poster)
[2] Brian Krupp, Julia Gersey, Franklin Lebo. Campus Plate: Connecting Students on College Campuses to Reduce Food Waste and Food Insecurity. 2022 International Conference on Research in Adaptive and Convergent Systems.
[1] Brian Krupp and Julia Gersey. 2023.Privacy Focused Companies, How Focused Are They?. SIGCAS Computing Society 51, 3 (December 2022), 10. (https://doi.org/ 10.1145/3585060.3585064)
Awards
ACM SenSys Best Poster Award, 2025.
Computing Research Association Grad Cohort for Women (CRA-WP), 2025
University of Michigan EECS Department Ph.D. Fellowship, Fall 2024
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Honorable Mention, 2024
Charles & Elsie Little Graduate Award, 2024
Baldwin Wallace Outstanding Computer Science Senior Undergraduate Award, 2024
Baldwin Wallace Woman of Achievement Award, 2024
NCWIT Aspirations in Computing Honorable Mention, 2024
CIO Tomorrow Student Scholarship, 2024
Upsilon Pi Epsilon Honor Society, Inducted 2024
NASA Ohio Space Grant Consortium Scholarship, 2023-2024
Kappa Mu Epsilon Honor Society, Inducted 2023
NASA Ohio Space Grant Consortium Scholarship, 2022-2023
ACM SenSys 2022 Travel Grant, 2022
Choose Ohio First STEM Scholarship, 2020-2024