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Linda G. Bushnell
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Linda G. Bushnell Box 352500 |
Tel: (206) 221-6717 |
University of California at Berkeley PhD (EE) 1994
University of California at Berkeley MA (Mathematics) 1989
University of Connecticut MS (EE) 1987
University of Connecticut BS (EE) 1985
Biosketch
Linda Bushnell joined the University of Washington in September 2000 and is a Research Assistant Professor. Her previous positions were with the U.S. Army Research Office, where she was the Program Manager of the Systems and Control Program, and with Duke University, where she was an Adjunct Assistant Professor. She is the Director of the Networked Control Systems Laboratory.
Honors
- IEEE Control Systems Society, Recognition Award, Secretary-Administrator (2001-2007)
- IEEE Senior Member (1999)
- Superior Civilian Service Award, US Government (2000)
- UW WiSE Graduate Student Mentor of the Year Award (2002)
- NSF ADVANCE Fellowship (2002)
- UW EE Chair's Award (2003)
Research Interests
- Networked Control Systems.
- Networked Control Systems Laboratory
- Robotics, Control, Mechatronics Group at UW
Recent Publications
- K. Sampigethaya, M. Li, R. Poovendran, R. Robinson, L. Bushnell & S. Lintelman, “Commercial Airplane Health Data Collection & Distribution Securely,” IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, 24:7, pp. 14-20 (July 2009).
- T. Pham, T. Green, J. Chen, P. Truong, A. Vaidya & L. Bushnell, “A Salinity Sensor System for Estuary Studies," Applied Math Journal: Networks and Heterogeneous Media, 4:2, pp. 381 – 392 (June 2009).
- S. McKennoch, T. Voegtlin & L. Bushnell, “Spike-Timing Error BackProp in Theta Neuron Networks,” Neural Computation, 21:1, pp. 9-45 (January 2009).
- K. Sampigethaya, R. Poovendran & L. Bushnell, “Secure Operation, Control and Maintenance of Future eEnabled Airplanes,” Proceedings of the IEEE, 96:12, pp. 1992-2007 (December 2008).
- Y. Hong, G. Chen & L. Bushnell, “Distributed Observers Design for Leader-Following Control of Multi-Agent Networks,” Automatica, 44:3, pp. 846-850 (March 2008).
Recent Conference Papers
- L. Bushnell, “Salinity Sensors for Hydrology Analysis and Control,” Irrigation Channels and Related Problems Workshop, Maiori, Italy (October 2008).
- T. -T. Pham, T. Green, J. Chen, P. Truong, A. Vaidya & L. Bushnell, “A Salinity Sensor System for Estuaries,” IEEE MTS/OCEAN, pp. 1-6 (September 2008).
- R. Poovendran, L. Bushnell, K. Sampigethaya, M. Li, R. Robinson & S. Lintelman, “Security of Wireless Sensor Network Enabled Health Monitoring for Commercial Airplanes,” 26th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences (AIAA ICAS) (September 2008).
- K. Sampigethaya, R. Poovendran & L. Bushnell, “Security of Future eEnabled Aircraft Ad hoc Networks,” 8th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration and Operations (AIAA ATIO) Conference (September 2008).
- K. Sampigethaya, R. Poovendran & L. Bushnell, “Challenges to Security eEnabled Aircraft Ad hoc Networks,” Air Transport Research Society (ATRS) Conference (July 2008).
Previous Graduate Students/Postdocs
- Thanh-Tung Pham, M.S. 2008 (now at BE. Meyers Electro Optics)
- Preethi Sundaradevan, M.S. 2008 (now at Cisco)
- Sam McKennoch, Ph.D. 2007 (now at Novo Nordisk)
- David Burnett, M.S. 2007 (now at Sandia Labs)
- Sean Hoyt, M.S. 2005 (seanhoyt.com)
- Mark Yamagishi, M.S. 2004 (now at Intel)
- Octavian Beldiman, Ph.D. Networked Control Systems 2001; M.S. Control Networks 1998 (now at Advanced Micro Devices)
- Hong Ye, Ph.D. Neworked Control Systems 2001 (now at Mathworks)
- Yiguang Hong, National Research Council Postdoc, Networked Control Systems (2000 - 2001) (now at Chinese National Academy of Science)
Current Students
- Nghi Nguyen
- Tamara Bonaci
- Richard Cook
- Arya Bannazadeh
