Christopher W. Johnson

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Christopher Johnson
Born
Christopher William Johnson

(1965-04-15) 15 April 1965 (age 59)
Edinburgh, Scotland
NationalityBritish
Alma mater
Known for cyber security, safety critical systems
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions University of Glasgow, Queen's University Belfast
Thesis A Principled Approach to the Integration of Human Factors and Systems Engineering for Interactive Control System Design  (1992)
Website www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~johnson

Christopher W. Johnson is a British computer scientist and pro vice chancellor for engineering and physical sciences at Queen's University, Belfast. Previously he was professor and head of computing science at the University of Glasgow, UK. [2] From July 2024, he will serve as chief scientific advisor to the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. [3]

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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). [4]

Career and research

Johnson's research focuses on the resilience of safety-critical systems. [5] [6] [7] [8]

Much of his early work was conducted in collaboration with C. Michael Holloway and the software engineering teams at NASA Langley [9] [10] He subsequently worked with the USAF Safety Centre and with Space Command. He helped develop European guidelines for contingency planning in aviation for EUROCONTROL [11] and accident investigation for the European Railway Agency. [12]

He helped establish the cybersecurity labs for the UK civil nuclear industry, that subsequently supported UK MoD work, leading to the formation of the Glasgow Cyber Defence Lab. [13] [14] He supported the United Nations in improving the cyber security of Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear facilities (CBRN). [15] 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). [16]

Other appointments

He was an expert witness for the public inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire where he addressed the communications issues that exacerbated the evacuation of the residents. [17]

He is the only academic member of the UK National Cyber Advisory Board, chaired by the Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, charged to support the implementation of the UK National Cyber Security Policy. [18]

He serves as co-chair of the National Cyber Security Centre (United Kingdom) Community of Interest in Industrial Control Systems. [19]

Johnson was elected to the UK Computing Research Committee (2016–2022); where he was responsible for the interface with public policy. [20]

He chaired the EPSRC Strategic Advisory Team on Information, Communication and Technology ICT (2021–2024) and was a member of the EPSRC Strategic Advisory Team on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). [21]

He attends the Northern Ireland Assembly Stormont All Party Group on STEM., [22] supported the Scottish government's Building National Resilience working group [23] and is a member of the Royal Irish Academy's Engineering and Computing Science Committee. [24]

Previously, Johnson chaired the scientific advisory board to the EC SESAR programme for the modernisation of air traffic management. [25] In 2017, he helped deliver the UK Department for Transport review of cyber security across the UK aviation industry and was the only academic invited to present at the UN/ICAO first summit of cyber security in aviation.

Awards and honours

He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, [26] a fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society [27] and of the British Computer Society. [28] In 2023, he was awarded one of only five fellowships from the International Federation of Information Processing, recognised by the United Nations. [29]

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References

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  2. ↑ "University of Glasgow - Staff A-Z". www.gla.ac.uk.
  3. ↑ "DSIT bolsters its leadership team to drive UK's science and tech superpower mission". www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-science-innovation-and-technology.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ "Prof. Chris Johnson FRSE, FRAeS, FBCS". www.dcs.gla.ac.uk.
  6. ↑ Johnson, C.W. (2016), "Why We Cannot (Yet) Ensure the Cybersecurity of Safety-Critical Systems" (PDF), in M., Parsons; Anderson, T (eds.), Developing Safe Systems: Proceedings of the 24th Safety-Critical Systyems Symposium, Brighton, UK 2-4 Feb 2016, Newcastle: SCSC, ISBN   9781519420077
  7. ↑ Johnson, C.W. (2015), "Barriers to the Use of Intrusion Detection Systems in Safety-Critical Applications" (PDF), in F., Koorneef; van Gulijk, C. (eds.), SAFECOMP 2015, LNCS 9337, Heidelberg, Germany: Springer Verlag, pp. 400–409, ISBN   978-3-319-24254-5
  8. ↑ Johnson, C.W. (2003). A Handbook of Accident and Incident Reporting (PDF). Glasgow: Glasgow University Press. ISBN   0-85261-784-4.
  9. ↑ "NASA Langley Formal Methods Group (Safety Critical Avionics Systems Branch)". larc.nasa.gov.
  10. ↑ Johnson, C.W.; Holloway, C.M. (2003), "A Survey of Logic Formalisms to Support Mishap Analysis" (PDF), Reliability Engineering and Systems Safety, 80 (3): 271–291, doi:10.1016/S0951-8320(03)00053-X
  11. ↑ "EUROCONTROL Guidelines for Contingency Planning of Air Navigation Services". www.eurocontrol.int. 6 April 2009.
  12. ↑ "Facilitating the Use of New Approaches in Accident Investigation by NIBs - /2011/SAF/NP/02" (PDF). era.europa.eu. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 July 2018.
  13. ↑ "Glasgow Cyber Defence Lab". www.dcs.gla.ac.uk.
  14. ↑ Johnson, C.W.; Evangelopolou, M.; Pavlova, T. (2017), "Applying Lessons from Cyber Attacks on Ukrainian Infrastructures to Secure Gateways onto the Industrial Internet of Things" (PDF), in Keyser, J.; Seiffert, S (eds.), Proceedings of the 35th International System Safety Conference, Albuquerque, USA, 21-25th August 2017
  15. ↑ "Project 19" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 August 2016. Retrieved 24 October 2016.
  16. ↑ "ECASEC Expert Group portal".
  17. ↑ "Evidence of Prof. Chris Johnson". Archived from the original on 18 October 2021. Retrieved 29 April 2024.
  18. ↑ "The National Cyber Advisory Board". www.gov.uk.
  19. ↑ "The strength of the ICS COI is the team". ncsc.gov.uk.
  20. ↑ "Evidence to parliament from the Computing Research Committee (UKCRC)". Archived from the original on 31 December 2013.
  21. ↑ "SAT Memberships". Archived from the original on 18 October 2021. Retrieved 29 April 2024.
  22. ↑ "All-Party Group on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics". www.niassembly.gov.uk.
  23. ↑ "Can Science Do Better to Prepare for the Next Pandemic and Other Natural Disasters?". rse.org.uk.
  24. ↑ "Chirs Johnson Profile". www.ria.ie. 24 August 2022.
  25. ↑ "SESAR Scientific Committee". Archived from the original on 31 December 2013. Retrieved 24 October 2016.
  26. ↑ "Professor Christopher Johnson FRSE". The Royal Society of Edinburgh. 15 March 2019. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
  27. ↑ "Fellow FRAeS". www.aerosociety.com.
  28. ↑ "BCS Fellowship". www.bcs.org.
  29. ↑ "IFIP Announces 2023 Awards". www.ifip.org. 26 October 2023.
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