I am an assistant professor in the Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering Department at the University of Colorado, Boulder
I am co-organizing the Rocky Mountain Workshop on Control & Autonomy taking place at CU Boulder on July 11, 2025. Find more info and register here!
About me: I received a B.S. Degree in Engineering Mathematics & Statistics from UC Berkeley, after which I was a research assistant at Caltech. I recieved my Ph.D. degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering from UC Santa Barbara in 2020 and have held postdoctoral appointments at Northeastern University and UC Berkeley. I have received the UC Regents’ Graduate Fellowship (2016), the Zonta Amelia Earhart Fellowship (2019), and an honorable mention for the Young Author award at the IFAC Conference on Networked Systems (2022).
Potential Students & Postdocs: I do not currently have funding for new students or postdocs, but will continue to review strong applications should this change.
My research is centered around the analysis and control of spatially-distributed systems. Applications of these systems span the areas from power systems to satellite constellations to bio-inspired soft-robotics. I develop theory to characterize performance bounds, structural properties, and inherent tradeoffs in these systems to guide controller design and system co-design.
You can view a list of all my publications on Google Scholar to learn more about my research link to Google Scholar.
Current Research Projects include…
- Multi-timescale wide-area control of power networks with high shares of IBRs (with Prof. Bri-Mathius Hodge and PhD student Matt Baughman).
- Control of nonlinear wave-like dynamics (with Prof. Cody Scarborough and undergraduate Andy Gusty). See our recent publication accepted to IEEE L-CSS here!
- Control and estimation of linear distributed parameter systems (PDEs) with limited communication (with PhD student Addie McCurdy)
- Structures for Distributed Controllability \& Observability (with undergraduate student Yu Kang Kong)
Contact Info: ejensen at colorado dot edu