Professor Dr. Erik Johnson

Biography

Erik Johnson is a professor in the Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Southern California and earned his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1988, 1993, and 1997, respectively. He also holds a certificate in Biblical Studies from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, obtained in 1991. Prior to his tenure at USC, he was a visiting research assistant professor at the University of Notre Dame from 1997 to 1999. He joined the USC faculty in August 1999 and has held various leadership roles, including Associate Chair and interim chair of the department from 2007-2017, and Vice Dean of Academic Programs for the USC Viterbi School of Engineering since 2017. Johnson has received several prestigious awards, including the National Science Foundation Early Faculty Career Development Award in 2001, and he is a senior member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. His research interests encompass smart structures, structural health monitoring, control of structural vibrations, computational stochastic dynamics, and multiobjective optimal control among other areas.

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