Josiah Hester
Computer Engineering Professor at Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois, US / Native Hawaiian
👨 he/him/his
🎓 Ph.D, Computer Science, Clemson University
B.S., Computer Science, Clemson University Honors College
😁 Josiah started off building games in his spare time, then started building battery-free game consoles to inspire others to think radically about responses to climate change.
Josiah builds new types of devices that harvest energy from the natural environment. Computer science is transforming sustainable energy!
WATCH & DISCUSS
Watch: This Battery-Free Game Boy Will Spark the Next Gaming Revolution
OTHER RESOURCES
Ongoing Research Projects
Large-scale Sustainable Sensing: powering sensors from soil, building sustainable cyber-infrastructure.
Mobile Health: smart face masks, wearable cameras, and devices that record eating.
Low/No Power Interactive Systems: a battery-free Game Boy, and Python for energy harvesting devices.
EXTENSION ACTIVITIES
ADVICE TO YOUNGER SELF
