Dr. Zerina Kapetanovic is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University working in the area of low-power wireless communication, sensing, and Internet of Things (IoT) systems. Prior to starting at Stanford, Kapetanovic was a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research in the Networking Research Group and Research for Industry Group.  

Dr. Kapetanovic's research has been recognized by the Yang Research Award, the Distinguished Dissertation Award from the University of Washington. She also received the Microsoft Research Distinguished Dissertation Grant and was selected to attend the 2020 UC Berkeley Rising Stars in EECS Workshop. Dr. Kapetanovic completed her PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington in 2022.

In the Stanford Smart Sensing Systems (S4) Lab, they invent sensor systems, which includes developing new methods of wireless communication, energy harvesting, sensing, and energy-efficient computing. Their research has applications in the domains of ubiquitous computing, robotics, and bioelectronics. Current research efforts include developing energy-efficient wireless sensing systems for environmental monitoring, new methods of low-power satellite connectivity, energy-efficient computing for resource constrained embedded systems, and wearables for human health.