Interests
ubiquitous computing, human-centered computing, creative coding, software engineering
Education
| PhD (in progress), Electrical & Computer Engineering |
Jan 2021 – present |
| University of Texas at Austin |
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| MSE, Electrical & Computer Engineering |
Dec 2023 |
| University of Texas at Austin |
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| BS, Computer Science |
May 2017 |
| University of New Mexico |
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| Marketing Minor |
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Research Experience
| Applied Research Scientist |
Aug 2023 – present |
| Useful Sensors |
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| Mountain View, CA, USA |
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| PhD Student |
Jan 2021 – present |
| University of Texas at Austin (Cockrell School of Engineering) |
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| Austin, TX, USA |
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| Advisor: Dr. Christine Julien |
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| Undergraduate Independent Study |
Aug 2016 – May 2017 |
| University of New Mexico (Department of Computer Science) |
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| Albuquerque, NM, USA |
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| Advisor: Dr. Gruia-Catalin Roman |
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| Data Science Intern |
Summer 2016 |
| New Mexico Environment Department |
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| Rio Rancho, NM, USA |
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Teaching Experience
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| 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., 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). Nod: Lightweight Continuous Neighbor Discovery on Everyday Devices. In International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking, and Services. To appear.
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
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.
Honors & Awards
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| Dr. Brooks Carlton Fowler Fellowship |
UT Austin |
2023 |
| Civilian of the Year |
Air Force Research Laboratory |
2020 |
| NSF I-Corps |
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2019 |
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| Public Park Cleanup |
Austin Parks Department |
2022, 2023 |
| English Tutor |
Kadena Language Institute |
2018 |
| Brigade Organizer |
Code for America |
2015 |
| Outreach Volunteer |
Createathon |
2015 |