Jonathan Sprinkle
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.
Prospective Students and Hiring Information
- Want to be my student?
- Direct link to ECE Graduate Application
- Looking for the ECE Recruiting PowerPoint talk?
News
- Check it out!! Former student Phillip Toussaint (BS, 2008) is featured in IEEE Spectrum's annual Dream Jobs report. (2/2012)
- Teaching ECE 473-573 (Software Engineering Concepts), MW 4:00-5:15 in HARV 318 (1/06/2012).
- Elevated to IEEE Senior Member (8/22/2011)
- In Fall 2011, taught ECE 441A-541A (Automatic Control), MWF 8:00-8:50 in HARV 115 (8/19/2011).
- ENGR 450/550 was featured in a UA News Article on 6/3/2011, titled, "Industry Helps Students Reanimate Robotic Mine Vehicles ".
- ECE 473/573 was featured in a UA News article on 5/12/2011, titled, "Learning to Learn: We Have an App for That".
- My talk at the UA Applied Math Seminar can be found here.
- In Spring 2011, taught ECE 473-573 (Software Engineering Concepts), MW 4:00-5:15 in CHVEZ 104 (1/7/2011).
- Mobile Citizen Science! Sean Whitsitt and Armando Barreto presented results from the iPhen application at the Fourth Annual Phenology Research and Observations of Southwest Ecosystems (PROSE) Symposium. You can find their talk here
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- In Fall 2010, taught ECE 505 (Model-Integrated Computing), TR 9:30-10:45 in PSY 304 (8/24/2010).
- In Fall 2010, taught ECE 373 (Object-Oriented Software Design), TR 8:00-9:15 in ILC 125 (8/24/2010).
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
| Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|
| Bané Vasic | Postmodern 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. |
Recent Collaborators
- Alex Bayen
- Sonia Martinez
- Roman Lysecky
- Michael Marcellin
- Jerzy Rozenblit
- Tony Falcone
- Mark Neifeld
- Janos Sztipanovits
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 Sprinkle | Dr. Jonathan Sprinkle | |
| PO Box 210104 | University of Arizona, ECE | |
| University of Arizona, ECE | 1230 E. Speedway Blvd. Bldg 104, Room 230 | |
| Tucson, AZ 85721-0104 | Tucson, AZ 85721-0104 |
Travel Schedule
| Dates | Location | Event |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | ||
| 10/26-10/28 | Arlington, VA | AFOSR Systems and Software Review Meeting |
| 10/23-10/24 | Portland, OR | DSM11 @ SPLASH/OOPSLA |
| 8/1-8/3 | National Harbor, MD | NSF CPS PI Meeting, Gaylord National Hotel and Convention Center |
| 4/27-29 | Las Vegas, NV | 18th IEEE International Conference and Workshops on Engineering of Computer-Based Systems (ECBS 2011) |
| 3/17-18 | Troy, MI | NIST/NSF/USCAR Workshop on Developing Dependable and Secure Automotive Cyber-Physical Systems from Components |
Weekly Schedule (updated for 2012S)
| Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | |
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| 0900 | Research | Research | Research | ||
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| 1000 | DARES | | | Research | | | | |
| Sean | | | | | | | | | |
| 1100 | Wei | | | | | | | | |
| Group Mtg | | | | | | | | | |
| 1200 | | | | | | | | | | |
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| 1300 | Kun | | | | | | | | |
| Matt | | | | | | | | | |
| 1400 | Research | | | | | | | | |
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| 1500 | | | | | Currents* | | | | |
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| 1600 | ECE 473 | | | ECE 473 | | | | |
| ECE 473 | | | ECE 473 | | | | | |
| 1700 | ECE 473 | | | ECE 473 | | | | |
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| 1800 | | | | | | | ||
Notes:
- ECE Currents occurs every other Wednesday, see HomePage for more info.
- Some research performed off campus, email me for fixed-schedule meeting times
- This schedule includes only semester-scheduled events. Space indicates possibility, not a guaranteed open spot.
- Time indicated for research is available for research meetings, or by special appointment for office hours.
- If my door is open, you are welcome to come in regardless of the indication on the calendar.

