Jonathan Sprinkle

Jonathan Sprinkle

Professor and Chair of Computer Science

Vanderbilt University · Institute for Software Integrated Systems

Professor of Computer Science at Vanderbilt University. Research in cyber-physical systems, autonomous vehicles, and domain-specific modeling.

Jonathan Sprinkle is Professor of Computer Science, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Vanderbilt University, where he also serves as Chair of the Department of Computer Science. He is a member of the Institute for Software Integrated Systems, where he serves on the Executive Council with responsibility for partnerships.

His research interests are in model-based approaches to cyber-physical systems, and he teaches courses ranging from systems modeling and control to autonomous vehicles and software engineering. In 2022, he led the hardware team that enabled the largest coordinated driving experiment in history—100 cars with customized ACC controllers—on I-24 in Nashville, TN, as part of the CIRCLES Consortium with UC Berkeley, Temple University, Rutgers University, Nissan North America, and the Tennessee Department of Transportation.

Prior to joining Vanderbilt in 2021, he was the Litton Industries John M. Leonis Distinguished Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Arizona, and the Interim Director of the Transportation Research Institute. In 2020 he was named a Distinguished Scholar of the University of Arizona. From 2017–2019 he served as a Program Director in Cyber-Physical Systems and Smart & Connected Communities at the National Science Foundation in the CISE Directorate. In 2013 he received the NSF CAREER award, and in 2012 his team won the NSF I-Corps Best Team award.

Before joining Arizona, he was the co-Team Leader of the Sydney-Berkeley Driving Team, a collaborative entry into the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge. In 2004, he led a team from UC Berkeley which autonomously flew against an Air Force pilot in pursuit/evasion games in the Mojave Desert at Edwards Air Force Base.

He graduated with his Ph.D. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Vanderbilt University, and with his B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering in cursu honorum, cum laude, from Tennessee Technological University, where he was the first graduate of the Computer Engineering program and the first Electrical Engineering double major.

Education

    Publications & Pages

    Design, Preparation, and Execution of the 100-AV Field Test for the CIRCLES Consortium: Methodology and Implementation of the Largest Mobile Traffic Control Experiment to Date

    Mostafa Ameli, Sean McQuade, Jonathan W. Lee, Matt Bunting, Matthew Nice, Han Wang, William Barbour, Ryan J. Weightman, Chris Denaro, Ryan Delorenzo, Sharon Hornstein, Jon F. Davis, Dan Timsit, Riley Wagner, Ruotong Xu, Malaika Mahmood, Mikail Mahmood, Maria Laura Delle Monache, Benjamin Seibold, Dan Work, Jonathan Sprinkle, Benedetto Piccoli, Alexandre M. Bayen

    IEEE Control Systems

    Jan 2025

    Traffic Control via Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs): An Open-Road Field Experiment with 100 CAVs

    Jonathan W. Lee, Han Wang, Kathy Jang, Nathan Lichtlé, Amaury Hayat, Matt Bunting, Arwa Alanqary, William Barbour, Zhe Fu, Xiaoqian Gong, George Gunter, Sharon Hornstein, Abdul Rahman Kreidieh, Mat-Thew W. Nice, William A. Richardson, Adit Shah, Eugene Vinitsky, Fangyu Wu, Shengquan Xiang, Sulaiman Almatrudi, Fahd Althukair, Rahul Bhadani, Joy Carpio, Raphael Chekroun, Eric Cheng, Maria Teresa Chiri, Fang-Chieh Chou, Ryan Delorenzo, Marsalis Gibson, Derek Gloudemans, Anish Gollakota, Junyi Ji, Alexander Keimer, Nour Khoudari, Malaika Mahmood, Mikail Mahmood, Hossein Nick Zinat Matin, Sean McQuade, Rabie Ramadan, Daniel Urieli, Xia Wang, Yanbing Wang, Rita Xu, Mengsha Yao, Yiling You, Gergely Zachár, Yibo Zhao, Mostafa Ameli, Mirza Najamuddin Baig, Sarah Bhaskaran, Kenneth Butts, Manasi Gowda, Caroline Janssen, John Lee, Liam Pedersen, Riley Wagner, Zimo Zhang, Chang Zhou, Dan Work, Benjamin Seibold, Jonathan Sprinkle, Benedetto Piccoli, Maria Laura Delle Monache, Alexandre M. Bayen

    IEEE Control Systems

    Jan 2025

    A Middle Way to Traffic Enlightenment

    Matthew Nice, George Gunter, Junyi Ji, Yuhang Zhang, Matt Bunting, William Barbour, Jonathan Sprinkle, Dan Work

    2024 ACM/IEEE 15th International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS)

    Jan 2024

    So you think you can track?

    Derek Gloudemans, Gergely Zachár, Yanbing Wang, Junyi Ji, Matthew Nice, Matt Bunting, William Barbour, Jonathan Sprinkle, Benedetto Piccoli, Maria Laura Delle Monache, Alexandre M. Bayen, Benjamin Seibold, Dan Work

    Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision

    Jan 2024

    Enabling Mixed Autonomy Traffic Control

    Matthew Nice, Matt Bunting, Alex Richardson, Gergely Zachar, Jonathan W. Lee, Alexandre M. Bayen, Maria Laura Delle Monache, Benjamin Seibold, Benedetto Piccoli, Jonathan Sprinkle, Dan Work

    Jan 2023

    Parameter Estimation for Decoding Sensor Signals

    Matthew Nice, Matt Bunting, Gergely Zachar, Rahul Bhadani, Paul Ngo, Jonathan W. Lee, Alexandre M. Bayen, Dan Work, Jonathan Sprinkle

    Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 14th International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (with CPS-IoT Week 2023)

    Jan 2023

    A Holistic Approach to the Energy-Efficient Smoothing of Traffic via Autonomous Vehicles

    Amaury Hayat, Xiaoqian Gong, Jonathan W. Lee, Sydney Truong, Sean McQuade, Nicolas Kardous, Alexander Keimer, Yiling You, Saleh Albeaik, Eugene Vinistky, Paige Arnold, Maria Laura Delle Monache, Alexandre M. Bayen, Benjamin Seibold, Jonathan Sprinkle, Dan Work, Benedetto Piccoli

    Intelligent Control and Smart Energy Management: Renewable Resources and Transportation

    Jan 2022

    Integrated Framework of Vehicle Dynamics, Instabilities, Energy Models, and Sparse Flow Smoothing Controllers

    Jonathan W. Lee, George Gunter, Rabie Ramadan, Sulaiman Almatrudi, Paige Arnold, John Aquino, William Barbour, Rahul Bhadani, Joy Carpio, Fang-Chieh Chou, Marsalis Gibson, Xiaoqian Gong, Amaury Hayat, Nour Khoudari, Abdul Rahman Kreidieh, Maya Kumar, Nathan Lichtle, Sean McQuade, Brian Nguyen, Megan Ross, Sydney Truong, Eugene Vinitsky, Yibo Zhao, Jonathan Sprinkle, Benedetto Piccoli, Alexandre M. Bayen, Dan Work, Benjamin Seibold

    Proceedings of the Workshop on Data-Driven and Intelligent Cyber-Physical Systems

    Jan 2021

    The Arizona Ring Experiments Dataset (ARED)

    Fangyu Wu, Raphael E Stern, Shumo Cui, Maria Laura Delle Monache, Rahul Bhadani, Matt Bunting, Miles Churchill, Nathaniel Hamilton, Fangyu Wu, Benedetto Piccoli, Benjamin Seibold, Jonathan Sprinkle, Dan Work

    Jan 2018

    Dampening traffic waves with autonomous vehicles

    Raphael Stern, Fangyu Wu, Miles Churchill, Dan Work, Maria Monache, Benedetto Piccoli, Hannah Pohlmann, Shumo Cui, Benjamin Seibold, Nathaniel Hamilton, R'mani Haulcy, Rahul Bhadani, Matt Bunting, Jonathan Sprinkle

    ITRL Conference on Integrated Transport: Connected and Automated Transport Systems

    Jan 2016

    TBD

    Fahd Shaikh, Wei He, Janet Roveda, Jonathan Sprinkle

    TBD

    Jan 2013

    The 11th Workshop on Domain-specific Modeling

    Juha-Pekka Tolvanen, Jonathan Sprinkle, Matti Rossi, Jeff Gray

    Proceedings of the ACM International Conference Companion on Object Oriented Programming Systems Languages and Applications Companion

    Jan 2011

    Model Evolution and Management

    Tíhamer Levendovszky, Bernhard Rumpe, Bernhard Schätz, Jonathan Sprinkle, Hans Vangheluwe

    Model-Based Engineering of Embedded Real-Time Systems

    Jan 2010

    Domain-Specific Modeling

    Jeff Gray, Juha-Pekka Tolvanen, Steven Kelly, Aniruddha Gokhale, Sandeep Neema, Jonathan Sprinkle, Paul Fishwick

    Jan 2007

    GME 2000 Users Manual (v2.0)

    Ákos Lédeczi, Miklos Maroti, Árpad Bakay, Greg Nordstrom, Jason Garrett, Chuck Thomason, Jonathan Sprinkle, Péter Volgyesi

    Jan 2001

    The New Metamodeling Generation

    Jonathan Sprinkle, Gábor Karsai, Ákos Lédeczi, Greg Nordstrom

    Eighth Annual IEEE International Conference and Workshop on the Engineering of Computer Based Systems

    Jan 2001

    Modeling Agent Negotiation

    Jonathan Sprinkle, Christopher van Buskirk, Gábor Karsai

    Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics

    Jan 2000