Emily Jensen
Assistant Professor at University of Colorado Boulder
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolEmily Jensen is an assistant professor at the University of Colorado Boulder and a control systems researcher with nine years of experience bridging theory and applied systems. She earned her PhD in Electrical Engineering from UC Santa Barbara and completed postdoctoral work at Northeastern and UC Berkeley, focusing on leveraging communication and structural constraints to design control policies for large-scale systems. Her work spans satellite constellations, power networks, and soft robotics, emphasizing system-level synthesis that outperforms component-wise controllers. Known for deriving analytic control formulas and building practical simulation tools during earlier research stints, she combines rigorous theory with hands-on experimentation. Based in Berkeley, she maintains an active academic presence through her personal webpage and Google Scholar profile.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Engineering Mathematics & Statistics, Bachelor's degree, Engineering Mathematics & Statistics at UC Berkeley College of EngineeringDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical Engineering at UC Santa Barbara
Spanish
Github Skills (24)
simulator7
unreal6
platform-independent6
robotics6
react5
computer-vision5
deep-reinforcement-learning5
control-systems5
simulation5
artificial-intelligence4
eye-tracking4
airsim4
self-driving-car4
nextjs4
drones4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
emilykjensen/old-website
Oct 2020 - Jul 2022
Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:219 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 9 months
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emilykjensen/emilykjensen.github.io
Jul 2022 - Feb 2025
A beautiful, simple, clean, and responsive Jekyll theme for academics
Contributions:64 pushes in 2 years 7 months
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