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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 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
- Sam McKennoch, Thomas Voegtlin, Linda G. Bushnell, “Spike-Timing Error BackProp in Theta Neuron Networks,” (to appear) Neural Computation, 2008.
- Y. Hong, G. Chen, and L. Bushnell, “Distributed Observers Design for Leader-Following Control of Multi-Agent Networks,” (to appear) Automatica, 2008.
Recent Conference Papers
- T.-T. Pham, D. Burnett, L. Handugan, D. Frashure, J. Chen, L. Bushnell, “Low Cost, Data-Logging Salinity Sensor,” IEEE MTS/OCEANS (Vancouver, BC) September 2007.
- S. McKennoch, P. Sundaradevan, and L. Bushnell, “Theta Neuron Networks: Robustness to Noise in Embedded Applications,” International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) (Orlando, FL) August 2007.
- S. McKennoch, D. Liu and L. G. Bushnell, “Fast Modifications of the SpikeProp Algorithm,” IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI) (Vancouver, BC) July 2006.
Previous Graduate Students/Postdocs
- Sam McKennoch, Ph.D. 2007 (now at INRIA, Nancy, France)
- David Burnett, M.S. 2007 (now at Sandia Labs)
- Sean Hoyt, M.S. 2005 (seanhoyt.com)
- Mark Yamagishi, M.S. 2004 (now at Intel)
- Jonathan Dandy, Ph.D. studies 2001 (now at Tektronix)
- Octavian Beldiman, Ph.D. Networked Control Systems, (May 2001); M.S. Control Networks (Oct. 1998) (Duke University; now at Mitsubishi Electronic)
- Yiguang Hong, National Research Council Postdoc, Networked Control Systems (Jan 2000 - Feb 2001) (Duke University; now at Chinese National Academy of Science)
Current Graduate Students/Postdocs
- Thanh-Tung Vu Pham
- Preethi Sundaradevan