Linda Bushnell

Scholar in residence June – December 2024

Linda Bushnell is a Research Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Washington – Seattle. She received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California – Berkeley in 1994, her M.A. in Mathematics from the University of California – Berkeley in 1989, her M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Connecticut – Storrs in 1987, and her B.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of Connecticut – Storrs in 1985. She also received her MBA from the University of Washington Foster School of Business in 2010. She recently worked at the US National Science Foundation (NSF) for four years before coming to KTH.

Her research interests include networked control systems, cyber-physical systems, and smart & connected communities. She is a Fellow of the IEEE for contributions to networked control systems. She is a Fellow of IFAC for contributions to the analysis and design of networked control systems. She received the US Army Superior Civilian Service Award, NSF ADVANCE Fellowship, and IEEE Control Systems Society Distinguished Member Award. She has been a member of the IEEE since 1985 and a member of the IEEE CSS since 1990. She is the Treasurer of the American Automatic Control Council.

Linda will spend seven months at KTH and Digital Futures, working with PhD students, postdocs, and faculty in the Division of Decision and Control Systems in EECS at KTH. She will teach a TinyML course to the Digital Futures Summer Research Internship (SRI) Program students. She intends to learn from the research at KTH to enhance her understanding of the role of AI in smart and connected communities and cyber-physical systems with her host, Karl Henrik Johansson and KTH colleagues.

Linda is also a WASP Guest Researcher, supported by the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program, hosted by Bo Wahlberg.

Contact: LB2@uw.edu