Dr. Josiah Hester, Northwestern University
Date: October 14th, 2021 - See the recording of our event below!
Dr. Josiah Hester is the Breed Chair of Design and Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering at Northwestern University. He designs, builds and deploys tiny computers that last for decades, supporting applications in healthcare, sustainability, and interactivity. He works towards a sustainable future for computing informed by his Native Hawaiian (Kanaka maoli) heritage. He applies his work to health wearables, interactive devices, and large-scale sensing for sustainability and conservation, supported by multiple grants from the NSF, NIH, DARPA, and 3M. He was named one of Popular Sciences Brilliant Ten, won the The American Indian Science and Engineering Society Most Promising Scientist/Engineer Award and the 3M Non-tenured Faculty Award in 2021. His work has received a Best Paper Award and Best Paper Nomination from ACM SenSys, and has been covered by the Wall Street Journal, The Verge, CNET, the BBC, and many others.