Interests
ubiquitous computing, human-centered computing, creative coding, software engineering
Education
| PhD, Electrical & Computer Engineering | Jan 2021 – Dec 2024 |
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| University of Texas at Austin |
| BS, Computer Science | May 2017 |
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| University of New Mexico | |
| Marketing Minor |
Research Experience
| Applied Research Scientist | Aug 2023 – present |
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| Useful Sensors | |
| Mountain View, CA, USA |
| Applied Research Intern | Summer 2023 |
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| Toyota North America R&D | |
| Mountain View, CA, USA |
| Graduate Research Assistant | Jan 2021 – Dec 2024 |
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| University of Texas at Austin (Cockrell School of Engineering) | |
| Austin, TX, USA | |
| Advisor: Dr. Christine Julien |
| Associate Computer Scientist | Oct 2018 – Jan 2021 |
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| Air Force Research Laboratory (Space Vehicles Directorate) | |
| Albuquerque, NM, USA |
| Undergraduate Independent Study | Aug 2016 – May 2017 |
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| University of New Mexico (Department of Computer Science) | |
| Albuquerque, NM, USA | |
| Advisor: Dr. Gruia-Catalin Roman |
| Data Science Intern | Summer 2016 |
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| New Mexico Environment Department | |
| Rio Rancho, NM, USA |
Teaching Experience
| Software Engineering | Supervised Lecturer | UT Austin | F2022 |
| Advanced App Dev. | Teaching Assistant | UT Austin | Su2022 |
| Software Engineering | Teaching Assistant | UT Austin | F2021, Sp2022, F2023 |
| Software Engineering | Teaching Assistant | UNM | Sp2017, Su2017 |
| Design of Large Programs | Teaching Assistant | UNM | Sp2017 |
| Data Organization in C | Teaching Assistant | UNM | F2016 |
Publications
Papers
King, E., Yu, H., Vartak, S., Jacob, J., Lee, S., & Julien, C. (2025). Teaching Things to Think: Bootstrapping Local Reasoning for Smart(er) Devices. In 2025 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom). IEEE, 2025. Best Paper (Runner Up) Award. To appear.
King, E., Yu, H., Lee, S., & Julien, C. (2024). Sasha: Creative Goal-Oriented Reasoning in Smart Homes with Large Language Models. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 8(1).
Chen, H. Y., King, E., & Julien, C. (2023, November). Nod: Lightweight Continuous Neighbor Discovery on Everyday Devices. In International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking, and Services (pp. 3-25). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.
King, E., & Julien, C. (2023, September). CANDor: Continuous Adaptive Neighbor Discovery. In 2023 IEEE 20th International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Smart Systems (MASS) (pp. 336-342). IEEE.
Pre-prints
Jeffries, N., King, E., Kudlur, M., Nicholson, G., Wang, J., & Warden, P. (2024). Moonshine: Speech Recognition for Live Transcription and Voice Commands. arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.15608.
King, E., Yu, H., Vartak, S., Jacob, J., Lee, S., & Julien, C. (2024). Thoughtful Things: Building Human-Centric Smart Devices with Small Language Models. arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.03821.
Yu, H., An, J., King, E., Thomaz, E., & Julien, C. (2023). Cheating off your neighbors: Improving activity recognition through corroboration. arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.06078.
King, E., Yu, H., Lee, S., & Julien, C. (2023). “Get ready for a party”: Exploring smarter smart spaces with help from large language models. arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.09802.
Patents
Pending
King, E., Wang, C., Pham, A. (2024) “Energy-efficient vehicular distributed machine learning”. U.S. Patent Application No. 18/430,491.
Invited Talks
From Rulesets to Reasoning: Building More Thoughtful Devices in the Age of Generative AI. Virginia Tech, Department of Computer Science. March 2025.
Honors & Awards
| Best Paper (Runner Up) | IEEE PerCom ‘25 | 2025 |
| Dr. Brooks Carlton Fowler Fellowship | UT Austin | 2023 |
| Civilian of the Year | Air Force Research Laboratory | 2020 |
| NSF I-Corps | 2019 |
Professional & Community Service
| Peer Reviewer | ACM | 2024, 2025 |
| Public Park Cleanup | Austin Parks Department | 2022, 2023 |
| English Tutor | Kadena Language Institute | 2018 |
| Brigade Organizer | Code for America | 2015 |
| Outreach Volunteer | Createathon | 2015 |