Erik Johnson
Senior Research Scientist at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Columbia, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolErik Johnson is a Senior Research Scientist at Johns Hopkins APL with eight years of experience bridging electrical engineering, computational neuroscience, and large-scale machine learning for neuroimaging and brain-machine interfaces. He develops neuroscience-inspired ML algorithms and cloud-based neuroinformatics systems, applying signal processing and scalable data science to real-world neurotech and robotics problems. Prior roles include research engineering in high-speed robotics and internships in DSP and supercomputing, giving him practical breadth from embedded control to distributed data systems. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UIUC and is passionate about improving engineering education and internships, often bringing teaching experience into research mentorship. A detail that sets him apart is his dual focus on both algorithmic innovation and the engineering infrastructure needed to scale neuroimaging analyses.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (5)
metadata3
metadata-management2
juniper1
snmp1
system-integration1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
aplbrain/BENCHMARK-Metadata
Sep 2022 - Feb 2023
Metadata specification and upload instructions for BossDB images, experiments, and annotations
Contributions:2 reviews, 6 commits, 4 PRs in 4 months
erikjohnson24/testcode
Oct 2017 - Jan 2020
Contributions:1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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