Timothy Johnson:
CLASS OF 1964
West High SchoolClass of 1964
Madison, WI
Timothy's Story
Biography â Timothy L. Johnson, PhD. (President, Johnson Dependability Services, LLC)
Having been raised in Madison, Wisconsin, Dr. Johnson received Bachelor of Science Degrees in Electrical Engineering and Economics in 1969, and then a PhD. in Electrical Engineering (Feedback Controls) in 1972 all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He joined the MIT Faculty as Assistant and Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, and performed research on feedback control of continuum electromechanical and electromagnetic systems, robotics, and man-machine systems in that capacity from 1972-1980. From 1980-1984, he served as a Senior Scientist at Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN, Inc.) in Cambridge, while continuing applied work in man-machine systems, robotics, automated manufacturing and discrete controls. In 1984, he joined GE Corporate Research and Development in Schenectady NY, where he served in several management and technical capacities involving different applications of feedback control to aerospace, aircraft engines, power systems, appliances, and fina...Expand for more
ncial economics until 1996. At this time, he shifted his primary application area to computing, discrete controls, sensing and remote diagnostic applications, with a growing involvement in power systems and smart grid research until his retirement from GE Research in 2008. Dr. Johnson is the author of over 125 journal and conference papers, 5 books or book chapters, and author or collaborator on 9 patents. Subsequent to his retirement, he formed Johnson Dependability Services (JDS) to pursue advanced applications of highly reliable systems. A Life Member of the IEEE, Dr. Johnson has served in many capacities within the IEEE Control System Society as well as the American Automatic Control Council and the International Federation of Automatic Control. He was named a Fellow of the IEEE in 2003.
Tim married Nancy Pesola in Minneapolis in 1968, and they have two grown children, Grant and Kaija, living in Philadelphia PA and Essex Junction VT, respectively. Grant and his wife Lea were married in 2003 have two daughters. Kaija and her wife, Kari, were married in 2013.
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