Julia Gersey is a PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Michigan, advised by Pei Zhang. Her research lies at the intersection of embedded & mobile computing, sensor networks and applied machine learning. Recently she has been building mobile sensing systems for real-world deployments. Among her honors, she received a US Department of Energy (DOE) Computational Science Graduate Fellowship. Gersey is the Editor in Chief of ACM XRDS, ACM’s magazine for students. XRDS articles, written by students as well as leaders in the field, vary from highlights of new and important research to interviews, roundtable discussions, and introductory overviews.