Dr. Jonathan Sprinkle

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Dr. Jonathan Sprinkle is the Executive Director of the Center for Hybrid and Embedded Software Systems in the Berkeley EECS Department. He is also a postdoctoral scholar in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department at the University of California, Berkeley, since August 2003. His research is in the area of intelligent autonomous systems, including UAVs, hybrid systems, and underwater vehicles. Building blocks for this are in domain-specific modeling, metamodeling, and generative programming. While at Berkeley, he has taught or largely assisted in the graduate courses Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (EE291e/ME290s), and Model-Integrated Computing (EE290o).

Dr. Sprinkle graduated with the Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University in August 2003, and with his M.S. in August 2000. He graduated with his B.S.E.E. in cursu honorum, cum laude, from Tennessee Tech University in Cookeville, TN, in May 1999, where he was the first graduate of the Computer Engineering program, and the first Electrical Engineering double major.

In 2005, Dr. Sprinkle was selected as one of 108 Regional Finalists for 11-19 highly competitive positions of White House Fellow. In 2002-2003, he was named a Master Teaching Fellow by the Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching, and in July 2002 he participated in the 52nd Meeting of the Nobel Laureates. As an undergraduate, in 1998-99, he served as the President of the Student Government Association and in 1997-98 was honored as Campus Leader of the Year and Legislator of the Year by the SGA of Tennessee Tech University.