In 2009, he received the university's Ed and Joan Biggers Faculty Support Grant for work in autonomous systems. He previously was the executive director of the Center for Hybrid and Embedded Software Systems at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests and experience are in systems control and engineering, through modeling and metamodeling. Sprinkle has a PhD in electrical engineering from Vanderbilt University and is a member of the IEEE, ACM, and American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Contact him at sprinkle@ece.arizona.edu.