Denise Wilson

Denise Wilson is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle where she has worked since 1999. Previously, she held a similar position at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky. She is also founder and managing director of Coming Alongside, an environmental services non-profit organization whose mission is to make hazards posed by the environment to human and animal health visible and actionable. She received the B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Stanford University (1988), the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, in 1989 and 1995, respectively, and a M.Ed. from the University of Washington in 2008.

As a result of teaching a wide variety of engineering courses and doing sensors research for over 20 years, she has a lot of stuff stuck in her head that she would like to share with others to the extent that said stuff is clear and useful to others both in engineering and in other disciplines. Sensing the Perfect Tomato was her first major writing adventure that required jumping outside of the engineering box to reach a broad audience by exploring the many opportunities the farm-to-table tomato creates for sensors and the Internet of Things.