Eric Greenlee

Eric Greenlee

he/him

Community-Engaged Environmental Sensing Researcher

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portfolio

DoD Projects

Various projects spanning the gamut of RF engineering from my time at the U.S. Department of Defense

IoT Backscatter

Low-burden microclimate monitoring leveraging backscatter wireless communications

Madagascar Conservation

Community engagement to co-design reforestation and biodiversity monitoring systems around Madagascar protected areas

Makak

Co-designed microclimate sensing buoy for manoomin (wild rice) conservation

publications

Community-Driven Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing

Published in GetMobile: Mobile Computing and Communications, 2023

This article calls for careful, calculated, community-driven co-design of mobile and ubiquitous solutions to bridge the gap in financing and capacity of marginalized communities as they battle for the safety and health of their members.

Recommended citation: Rothrock, B., Greenlee, E., & Hester, J. (2023). Community-Driven Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing. GetMobile: Mobile Computing and Communications, 27(3), 5-9. https://doi.org/10.1145/3631588.3631590
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“The Devil You Know”: Barriers and Opportunities for Co-Designing Microclimate Sensors, A Case Study of Manoomin

Published in ACM Journal on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS), 2024

We leverage interviews with field scientists to analyze the microclimate sensor lifecycle and outline the opportunities for sensor co-design, focussing on cost of experience, field usability, and community engagement.

Recommended citation: Greenlee, E., Rothrock, B., Kim, H., Zegura, E., & Hester, J. (2024). “The Devil You Know”: Barriers and Opportunities for Co-Designing Microclimate Sensors, A Case Study of Manoomi. ACM Journal on Computing and Sustainable Societies, 2(3), 1-30. https://doi.org/10.1145/3685695
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Makak: Co-designing Environmental Sensors to Protect Manoomin (Wild Rice)

Published in Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS), 2025

Drawing on multiple years of co-design with Indigenous Ojibwe water stewards followed by an extended set of deployments, we share design and process insights for accessible and community-oriented environmental sensing.

Recommended citation: Rothrock, B., Greenlee, E., Sangar, Y., McKenna, J., Graveen, W., Hanson, K., ... & Cabral, A. (2025, July). Makak: Co-designing Environmental Sensors to Protect Manoomin (Wild Rice). In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (pp. 115-130). https://doi.org/10.1145/3715335.3735460
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“The Devil You Know”: Barriers and Opportunities for Co-Designing Microclimate Sensors, A Case Study of Manoomin

Published in ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW), 2025

Leveraging a mixture of qualitative methods through an assets-based codesign lens, we provide insights into the opportunities and tensions for conservation technologies to align with the goals and values of community conservation workers from protected areas in Madagascar.

Recommended citation: Greenlee, E., Klinges, D., Randriamiharisoa, L. O., Valenta, K., Rakotoarivelo, J. C., Rasojivola, J., ... & Cabral, A. (2025). Sustaining Workers Who Sustain the World: Assets-Based Design for Conservation Technologies in Madagascar. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 9(7), 1-39. https://doi.org/10.1145/3757664
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Unveiling and Engaging with the Humans of Networking Research

Published in Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets), 2025

After contending that qualitative methods are central to networking research yet often go unreported, we explore methods of formalizing qualitative methods in networking venues.

Recommended citation: Ahmed, N., Gazda, L., Greenlee, E., Hagemann, S., Heimerl, K., Jang, E., ... & Young, J. (2025, November). Unveiling and Engaging with the Humans of Networking Research. In Proceedings of the 24th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (pp. 25-33). https://doi.org/10.1145/3772356.3772400
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talks

teaching

Teacher’s Assistant, ENGS 23: Distributed Systems and Fields

Undergraduate course, Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering, 2016

I served as a teacher’s assistant for Dartmouth’s ENGS 23: Distributed Systems and Fields during the Fall 2016, Fall 2017, and Winter 2018 terms. Responsibilities included leading lab sections, helping students work through homework problems during office hours, and grading homeworks. This course was taught by Professor Charles Sullivan and Professor Ulf Österberg

Teacher’s Assistant, CS 8803: Sustainability and Computing

Undergraduate/Graduate Course, Georgia Institute of Technology, College of Computing, 2023

I served as a teacher’s assistant for Georgia Tech’s CS 8803: Sustainability and Computing during the Fall 2023 semester, which was taught by Professor Josiah Hester. Responsibilities included delivering lectures, leading group discussions, and providing feedback on and grading students’ projects.

Instructor, CS 3251: Computer Networking

Undergraduate course, Georgia Institute of Technology, College of Computing, 2026

I taught the undergraduate networking course at Georgia Tech during the summer 2026 semester.