Linda Grace Bushnell is an American expert on networked control systems who works as a research professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Washington[1] and as a program director for the Civic Innovation Challenge (CIVIC) and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) programs at the National Science Foundation.
[1] Her dissertation, Motion Planning for Wheeled Nonholonomic Systems, was supervised by Shankar Sastry.
[3] She also has an MBA, earned in 2010 through the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington.
[1] After completing her Ph.D., she worked as a program manager in the Army Research Office of the United States Army Research Laboratory from 1994 to 2000, while also holding an adjunct associate professor position at Duke University.
[4] Bushnell is a Fellow of the IEEE[1] and a Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control, elected in 2020 "for contributions to the analysis and design of networked control systems".