Scholar
Josiah Hester
Google Scholar ID: EMYV8cEAAAAJ
Associate Professor, Interactive Computing and Computer Science, Georgia Tech
Citations & Impact
Citations
2,601
H-index
25
i10-index
42
Publications
20
Co-authors
153
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 2025
- Sloan Fellow in Computer Science
- NSF CAREER Award and VMware Early Career Faculty Award (2022)
- Named to Popular Science’s Brilliant 10 (2021)
- AISES Most Promising Scientist
- 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award (2021)
- Work featured in Scientific American, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, BBC, NYTimes, and others
- TerraCell won 1st place in the 2024 Prototypes for Humanity competition (Energy category)
- Former postdoc Nivedita Arora won the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award (2024)
- Manoomin conservation and tribal sovereignty work covered by NYTimes and Mongabay (2024)
- Published JMIR article on health equity
- Presented Kaona, a Hawaiian Futurism tabletop RPG, at CHI Play (2024)
Research Experience
- Associate Professor, College of Computing, Georgia Tech
- Director, Ka Moamoa Lab
- Director, Center for Advancing Responsible Computing
- Leads research projects including: Large-scale Sustainable Sensing (soil-powered compute, data sovereignty), Adaptive Intermittent Computing (modular hardware, runtimes, tools), Mobile Health (smart face masks, wearable cameras, eating/smoking monitoring), Implantable Pharmacy (ovarian cancer treatment, sleep therapy), Carbon-aware IoT, Sustainable Robotics (energy-harvesting flapping UAVs, recyclable soft actuators), and Low/No Power Interactive Systems (battery-free Game Boy, Python/block-based programming for energy harvesting devices)
- Leading the bioelectronics effort in a $35M ARPA-H project on diabetes
- Collaborates with Wisconsin tribes on manoomin (wild rice) sensor monitoring
Background
- Associate Professor of Interactive Computing and Computer Science at the College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Focuses on reimagining computing for sustainability with applications in healthcare, conservation, interactivity, and education
- Director of Ka Moamoa – Ubiquitous and Mobile Computing Lab, working to reduce the carbon costs of computing and design systems that are sustainable, durable, and useful to all
- Research is informed by his Native Hawaiian (Kānaka Maoli) heritage
- Applies intermittent computing to large-scale sensing, health wearables, and interactive devices
