SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING AND IMAGING INSTITUTE
at the University of Utah

Background

Chris Johnson is a faculty member within and founding director of the Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute at the University of Utah where he is a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and holds faculty appointments in the Departments of Physics and Bioengineering. His research interests are in the areas of scientific computing and scientific visualization. With Professor Rob MacLeod, Dr. Johnson founded the SCI research group in 1992, which has since grown to become the SCI Institute employing over 200 faculty, staff and students. Professor Johnson directed SCI until 2018. Professor Johnson serves on several international journal editorial boards, as well as on advisory boards to several national and international research centers. Professor Johnson was awarded a Young Investigator's (FIRST) Award from the NIH in 1992, the NSF National Young Investigator (NYI) Award in 1994, and the NSF Presidential Faculty Fellow (PFF) award from President Clinton in 1995. In 1996 he received a DOE Computational Science Award and in 1997 received the Par Excellence Award from the University of Utah Alumni Association and the Presidential Teaching Scholar Award. In 1999, Professor Johnson was Awarded the Governor's Medal for Science and Technology from Governor Michael Leavitt. In 2003 he received the Distinguished Professor Award from the University of Utah. In 2004 he was elected a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, 2005 he was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in 2009 he was elected a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) and received the Utah Cyber Pioneer Award. In 2010 Professor Johnson received the Rosenblatt Award from the University of Utah and the IEEE Visualization Career Award. In 2012 Professor Johnson received the IEEE CS Charles Babbage Award and in 2013 Professor Johnson received the IEEE Sidney Fernbach Award. In 2014, Professor Johnson was elected an IEEE Fellow and in 2019 he was inducted into the IEEE Visualization Academy. In 2020, Professor Johnson received the Leonardo Award from the Leonardo Museum.

Current Responsibilities

Chris Johnson is a faculty member within the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute at the University of Utah where he is a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and holds faculty appointments in the Departments of Physics, and Bioengineering. Professor Johnson directed SCI for more than 25 years until 2018.

He holds the following positions:

• Distinguished Professor of Computer Science.
• Research Professor of Bioengineering.
• Adjunct Professor of Physics.
• Co-Director, The Center for Integrative Biomedical Computing (CIBC)
• Co-Editor, The Visualization Handbook.

Courses I Teach:

• Computational Inverse Problems - CS 6962 Fall 2024
• Visualization for Scientific Data - CS 6635 - Spring 2025
• Decomposition Techniques for Data and Computational Science - CS 6962 - Fall 2023
• Scientific Computation - CS 3200 - Fall 2022
• Advanced Scientific Computing I - CS 6210 - Fall 2014
• Advanced Methods in Scientific Computing II

Research Interests

Professor Johnson's research interests are in the areas of scientific computing and scientific visualization. Particular interests include inverse and imaging problems, adaptive methods, problem solving environments, biomedical computing, and computational field and uncertainty visualization.

Current Areas of Research:

• Scientific Visualization
• Scientific Computing
• Image Analysis
• Scientific Software Environments

Chris Johnson, Ph.D.
Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute
John E. and Marva M. Warnock Engineering Building (WEB)
72 South Campus Central Dr., 3750 WEB
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-9205
Email: crj@sci.utah.edu
Phone: (801) 581-7705
Fax: (801) 585-6513
http://www.sci.utah.edu/people/crj.html

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