Jason Marden is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering at the University of Colorado. He received a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2001 from UCLA, and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in 2007, also from UCLA, where he was awarded the Outstanding Graduating Ph.D. Student in Mechanical Engineering. After graduating from UCLA, he served as a junior fellow in the Social and Information Sciences Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology until 2010 after which he joined the University of Colorado. He received an AFOSR Young Investigator Award in 2012 and his student's paper was a finalist for the Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control in 2011. His research interests focus on game theoretic methods for distributed and networked control systems.