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Alex Cabral

Postdoctoral Fellow
Georgia Tech
acabral30 (at) gatech.edu


About Me

I will begin as an Assistant Professor Department of Urban Studies and Planning and the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society at MIT in July 2026! Please reach out to me if you are interested in hearing more about my work and future lab.

I am a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Ka Moamoa Lab at Georgia Tech and a 2025-2026 NSF ICICLE Educational Fellow. My primary research project is focused on designing and deploying low-cost sensing devices to monitor environmental factors of Manoomin, wild rice that grows in the Great Lakes region and is essential to Indigenous North American culture, economy, and sustenance. This work is part of the multi-institute Strong Manoomin Collective, which is funded by multiple NSF grants.

I earned a PhD in Computer Science from Harvard University, where I was co-advised by Jim Waldo and Amy Mueller and selected as a 2024 Siebel Scholar and CPS Rising Star. My PhD research was focused on designing reliable, scalable, and equitable sensor networks for urban environmental sensing, and part of that work was recognized with a Best Poster Award at EWSN 2024. From 2020 to 2022, I was a member of the Urban Innovation group at Microsoft Research, where I helped deploy and maintain the Eclipse air quality sensing network.

Research Interests

Recent News

Publications

  1. Characterizing the effects of structural fires on fine particulate matter with a dense sensing network
    Ayina Anyachebelu, Alex Cabral, Marah I. Abdin, Pallavi Choudhury, Madeleine I. G. Daepp
    Scientific Reports, 13:12862, 2023.
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  2. CHI
    The ''Three-Legged Stool'': Designing for Equitable City, Community, and Research Partnerships in Urban Environmental Sensing
    Alex Cabral*, Madeleine I.G. Daepp*, Tiffany Werner, Raed Mansour, Charlie Catlett, Asta Roseway, et al.
    ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2023.
    PDF

  3. IPSN
    Eclipse: An End-to-End Platform for Low-Cost, Hyperlocal Environmental Sensing in Cities
    Madeleine I.G. Daepp, Alex Cabral, Vaishnavi Ranganathan, Vikram Iyer, Scott Counts, et al.
    ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, 2022.
    PDF Project Page

  4. Sensors
    Design and Implementation of A Mobile Urban Low-Cost Environmental Sensor Network
    Alex Cabral, Asta Roseway, Paul Johns
    IEEE Sensors, 2021.
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