Christopher W. Johnson

Christopher Johnson
Born Christopher William Johnson
(1965-04-15) 15 April 1965
Edinburgh, Scotland
Residence United Kingdom
Nationality British
Fields
Institutions University of Glasgow
Alma mater
Thesis A Principled Approach to the Integration of Human Factors and Systems Engineering for Interactive Control System Design (1992)
Known for cyber security, safety critical systems
Website
www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~johnson

Christopher W. Johnson , FBCS, is a British computer scientist and Professor at the University of Glasgow, UK.[2] He has been Head of Computing in Glasgow since June 2014.

Education and early life

Chris Johnson was born on 15 April 1965. He was educated at Verulam School, Trinity College, Cambridge (MA), and the University of York (MSc, DPhil) .[3]

Career and research

Johnson's research focuses on the cyber security of safety-critical systems.[4] [5] [6] [7]

He supported the United Nations in improving the cyber security of Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear facilities (CBRN).[8] Johnson designed the cyber incident reporting processes under Article 13a of the Framework Directive (2009/140/EC) and Article 4 of the e-Privacy directive (2002/58/EC) on behalf of the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA).[9] Prior to that he helped develop European guidelines for contingency planning in aviation for EUROCONTROL [10] and accident investigation for the European Railway Agency.[11]

Johnson has held fellowships from NASA (Langley Research Centre and Johnson Space Centre) and the US Air Force. He also supports safety and cyber security in the US Navy and the Federal Aviation Administration.

Other Appointments

In 2016, Johnson was elected to the UK Computing Research Committee.[12] He was also appointed to the EPSRC Strategic Advisory Team. Since 2014, he has been a member of the Scottish Government's Public Sector Cyber Resilience group. He helps to lead the Scottish Universities Computing Science Alliance (SICSA) in cyber security.

Previously, Johnson chaired the scientific advisory board to the EC SESAR programme for the modernisation of Air Traffic Management.[13] He helped develop cyber risk assessments for both the aviation and maritime industries on behalf of the UK Department of Transport; reporting to the Cabinet Office.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Christopher W. Johnson's publications indexed by Google Scholar
  2. ↑ University of Glasgow
  3. ↑ Johnson, Christopher William (1985). A Principled Approach to the Integration of Human Factors and Systems Engineering for Interactive Control System Design (PhD thesis). University of York.
  4. ↑ Home page
  5. ↑ Johnson, C.W. (2016), "Why We Cannot (Yet) Ensure the Cybersecurity of Safety-Critical Systems" (PDF), in M., Parsons; Anderson, T, Developing Safe Systems: Proceedings of the 24th Safety-Critical Systyems Symposium, Brighton, UK 2-4 Feb 2016, Newcastle: SCSC, ISBN 9781519420077
  6. ↑ Johnson, C.W. (2015), "Barriers to the Use of Intrusion Detection Systems in Safety-Critical Applications" (PDF), in F., Koorneef; van Gulijk, C., SAFECOMP 2015, LNCS 9337, Heidelberg, Germany: Springer Verlag, pp. 400–409, ISBN 978-3-319-24254-5
  7. ↑ Johnson, C.W. (2003). A Handbook of Accident and Incident Reporting (PDF). Glasgow: Glasgow University Press. ISBN 0-85261-784-4.
  8. ↑ http://www.unicri.it/topics/cbrn/coe/19_actions/Project19_EU-CBRN-CoE_Fact_Sheet.pdf
  9. ↑ https://resilience.enisa.europa.eu/article-13
  10. ↑ http://www.eurocontrol.int/articles/guidelines-contingency-planning-air-navigation-services
  11. ↑ http://www.era.europa.eu/Document-Register/Documents/NIB%20good%20practice.pdf
  12. ↑ http://www.ukcrc.org.uk
  13. ↑ "SESAR Scientific Committee".


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