Jeremy Coulson
Mark and Jenny Brandemuehl Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Jeremy Coulson is the Mark and Jenny Brandemuehl Assistant Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He received his PhD from the Automatic Control Laboratory at ETH Zurich in 2022 under the supervision of Prof. Florian Dörfler and Prof. John Lygeros. He received his MASc in Mathematics & Engineering in 2017 under the supervision of Prof. Bahman Gharesifard and Prof. Abdol-Reza Mansouri and his B.Sc.Eng degree in Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mathematics in 2015, both from Queen’s University.
His research interests lie at the intersection of control, systems theory, and optimization while addressing engineering challenges in domains ranging from robotics to energy systems. In particular, he is interested in data-driven control, where he studies how to use data for modelling, analysis, prediction, control, and decision-making for complex systems.
He received the best student paper award at the European Control Conference 2019, the best young author journal paper award in the IEEE Control Systems Society Swiss Chapter in 2022, and the ETH medal for his PhD thesis in 2023. He was awarded the Gerald Holdridge Excellence in Teaching Award in 2025. He received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2026.
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| Mar, 2026 | I am grateful to have received the NSF CAREER Award. See this news article to learn more about my research. |
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| May, 2025 | I am honoured to have received the Gerald Holdridge Teaching Excellence Award. |
| Dec, 2024 | We hosted a workshop on data-driven control at the CDC in Milan. You can find the slides here. |
| Jan, 2024 | I am honoured to have received the ETH Medal for my PhD thesis. |
| Jul, 2023 | Talk at the pre-conference workshop “Data-driven Predictive Control: Whence and Whither?” at IFAC world congress in Japan. |