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Jonathan Sprinkle


Autonomous Cars (iPhone version)

Assistant Professor [cv] [publications]
Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Arizona

The easiest way to reach me is by email:
sprinkle@ECE.Arizona.Edu
Note this is my actual email. I do not fear the spammers.

If you can't find me, I'm probably up in ECE 446, off finding good espresso, forgetting to post to my weblog, looking for good graduate students, or coming up with captions for my headshot.

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Biography

Dr. Jonathan Sprinkle is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Arizona. In 2009, he received the UA's Ed and Joan Biggers Faculty Support Grant for work in autonomous systems. Until June 2007, he was the Executive Director of the Center for Hybrid and Embedded Software Systems at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests and experience are in systems control and engineering, through modeling and metamodeling, and he teaches in controls and systems modeling.

Dr. Sprinkle is a graduate of Vanderbilt University (PhD, MS) and Tennessee Technological University (BSEE). More biographies, and photos.

Next ECE Currents: Wednesday 8 February 2012

SpeakerTopic
Bané VasicPostmodern coding theory
The talk is about a new class of iterative error-correcting decoders
for low-density parity check codes surpassing the state-of-the-art
belief propagation algorithms with a fraction of their complexity.
Dan Ford
Faisel/Sprinkle		InfoMax Control for Acoustic Exploration of Objects by a Mobile Robot
We may want an agent such as a robot to gather information about its
environment, even without a specific task to be performed. Knowledge
of the surrounding area can help the agent improve its task performance
or identify new useful tasks. InfoMax control, in which negative Shannon
entropy over objects in the environment is the reward function for
reinforcement learning in a POMDP, is a recently proposed framework for
motivating such exploration. We apply InfoMax control to a physical robot
that gathers acoustic signatures of objects to determine the optimal
sequence of actions to maximize the robot's information about objects in
its environment. We also discuss the implications of InfoMax control and
situations in which it may or may not be appropriate.
Gregory Striemer
Akoglu Lab		Interrogating the Convergent Recombination Hypothesis for Immune Systems of Jawed Vertebrates with GPU Based DNA Recombination Process
We are exploring the process of DNA recombination, known as V(D)J
recombination. It is responsible for the development of the adaptive
immune system. A greater understanding of V(D)J recombination can lead
to the development of life saving drugs. This process, which occurs
naturally in our bodies, can be simulated using computer hardware.
However it is extremely computationally demanding. In this study we
mapped the recombination process to a massively parallel GPU architecture,
and for the first time have been able to exhaustively perform
recombination on mouse genes. Using the information obtained from this
study we have been able to evaluate the Convergent Recombination Hypothesis.

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Location

Office:ECE 456N 
Lab:ECE 446 
Phone:I do not check voicemail.
 Do not leave voicemail. I always check email before voicemail.
 (520) 626-0737
Fax:(520) 621-8076
Lab:(520) 626-8048
Office Hours:M: 10:00-11:00 am
 W. 11:00-12:00 noon
 And by special appointment with email confirmation.
 Office hours are held only during term sessions.
Address:Mailing:Shipping:
 Dr. Jonathan SprinkleDr. Jonathan Sprinkle
 PO Box 210104University of Arizona, ECE
 University of Arizona, ECE1230 E. Speedway Blvd. Bldg 104, Room 230
 Tucson, AZ 85721-0104Tucson, AZ 85721-0104

Travel Schedule

DatesLocationEvent
2011
10/26-10/28Arlington, VAAFOSR Systems and Software Review Meeting
10/23-10/24Portland, ORDSM11 @ SPLASH/OOPSLA
8/1-8/3National Harbor, MDNSF CPS PI Meeting, Gaylord National Hotel and Convention Center
4/27-29Las Vegas, NV18th IEEE International Conference and Workshops on Engineering of Computer-Based Systems (ECBS 2011)
3/17-18Troy, MINIST/NSF/USCAR Workshop on Developing Dependable and Secure Automotive Cyber-Physical Systems from Components

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Weekly Schedule (updated for 2012S)

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