Distinguished Lecturer

Jonathan Sprinkle has been a professor of computer science at Vanderbilt University since 2021. He is a member of the Institute for Software Integrated Systems, where he serves on the Executive Council with responsibility for partnerships. His research interests and experience are in model-based approaches to cyber-physical systems, and he teaches courses ranging from systems modeling and control to mobile application development and software engineering. In his career he has been a part of the following high-impact activities: Largest Open-road ACC test (2022), First Open-Road Demonstration of Adaptive Cruise Control string instabilities (2018), First traffic wave dampening with a single automated vehicle (2016), First model-based operation of an Autonomous Car by 4th Graders (2016), First model-based Full-sized Autonomous Car testbed (2012), Model-based Approaches in the DARPA Urban Challenge (2007), and First live Dogfighting of a full-scale UAV vs. an U.S. Air Force F-15 Piloted Jet (2004). Prior to joining Vanderbilt, he was Distinguished Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Arizona. From 2017-2019 he served as a Program Director in Cyber-Physical Systems and Smart & Connected Communities at the National Science Foundation in the CISE Directorate. In 2013 he received the NSF CAREER award.