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Sam Coogan received a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology and both M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. From 2015 to 2017, he served as an Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering department at UCLA before joining Georgia Tech in 2017. His professional experiences include a postdoctoral research position as a research engineer at Sensys Networks, Inc., and serving as a research intern at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab. Coogan's work primarily focuses on Autonomous Systems, Transportation Networks, Cyber-Physical Systems, Control Theory, and Formal Methods. He has received numerous accolades including the Eli Jury Award for outstanding achievement in systems, communications, control, and signal processing from UC Berkeley in 2016, and the Leon O. Chua Award in 2014 for outstanding achievement in nonlinear science. Other significant awards include the Donald P. Eckman Award from the American Automatic Control Council in 2020, a Young Investigator Award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research in 2019, and a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation in 2018. He has also earned the Outstanding Paper Award from IEEE Transactions on Control of Networked Systems in 2017, and both the Georgia Tech Sigma Xi Young Faculty Award and ECE Outstanding Junior Faculty Award in 2022.
Georgia Institute of Technology • Atlanta, GA
Joined the faculty focusing on Electrical Engineering and related research areas.
University of California, Los Angeles • Los Angeles, CA
Conducted research and taught courses in Electrical Engineering.
Department of Computer Science: GRE scores are optional for Fall 2026.