Linda Grace Bushnell is an American expert on

networked control system A networked control system (NCS) is a control system wherein the control loops are closed through a communication network. The defining feature of an NCS is that control and feedback signals are exchanged among the system's components in the form of ...

s who works as a research professor of electrical and computer engineering at the

University of Washington The University of Washington (UW, simply Washington, or informally U-Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1861, Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast; it was established in Seattle a ...

and as a program director for the Civic Innovation Challenge (CIVIC) and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) programs at the

National Science Foundation The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the United States government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National I ...

Education and career

Bushnell majored in

electrical engineering Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems which use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...

at the

University of Connecticut The University of Connecticut (UConn) is a public land-grant research university in Storrs, Connecticut, a village in the town of Mansfield. The primary 4,400-acre (17.8 km2) campus is in Storrs, approximately a half hour's drive from Hart ...

, where she earned a bachelor's degree in 1985 and a master's degree in 1987. After earning a second master's degree in mathematics at the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

in 1989, she completed a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science at UC Berkeley in 1994. Her dissertation, ''Motion Planning for Wheeled Nonholonomic Systems'', was supervised by

Shankar Sastry S. Shankar Sastry is the Founding Chancellor of the Plaksha University, Mohali and a former Dean of Engineering at University of California, Berkeley. From 1996-1999, he was the director of the Electronics Research Laboratory at Berkeley. F ...

. She also has an

MBA A Master of Business Administration (MBA; also Master's in Business Administration) is a postgraduate degree focused on business administration. The core courses in an MBA program cover various areas of business administration such as accounti ...

, earned in 2010 through the

Foster School of Business The Michael G. Foster School of Business is the business school at the University of Washington in Seattle. It was founded in 1917. The school has more than 50,000 alumni, and is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Busin ...

at the University of Washington. After completing her Ph.D., she worked as a program manager in the Army Research Office of the

United States Army Research Laboratory The U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Army Research Laboratory (DEVCOM ARL) is the U.S. Army's foundational research laboratory. ARL is headquartered at the Adelphi Laboratory Center (ALC) in Adelphi, Maryland. Its largest singl ...

from 1994 to 2000, while also holding an adjunct associate professor position at

Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...

. She moved to the

in 2000.

Recognition

Bushnell is a

Fellow of the IEEE The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operation ...

and a Fellow of the

International Federation of Automatic Control The International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), founded in September 1957, is a multinational federation of 49 national member organizations (NMO), each one representing the engineering and scientific societies concerned with automatic c ...

, elected in 2020 "for contributions to the analysis and design of networked control systems".

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bushnell, Linda Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American electrical engineers American women engineers Control theorists University of Connecticut alumni UC Berkeley College of Letters and Science alumni University of Washington alumni University of Washington faculty Fellows of the International Federation of Automatic Control Fellow Members of the IEEE American women academics UC Berkeley College of Engineering alumni 21st-century American women