Karl Henrik Johansson's Biography

Shorter Bio

Karl H. Johansson is Swedish Research Council Distinguished Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden and Founding Director of Digital Futures. He earned his MSc degree in Electrical Engineering and PhD in Automatic Control from Lund University. He has held visiting positions at UC Berkeley, Caltech, NTU and other prestigious institutions. His research interests focus on networked control systems and cyber-physical systems with applications in transportation, energy, and automation networks. For his scientific contributions, he has received numerous best paper awards and various distinctions from IEEE, IFAC, and other organizations. He has been awarded Distinguished Professor by the Swedish Research Council, Wallenberg Scholar by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, Future Research Leader by the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research. He has also received the triennial IFAC Young Author Prize and IEEE CSS Distinguished Lecturer. He is the recipient of the 2024 IEEE CSS Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Prize. His extensive service to the academic community includes being President of the European Control Association, IEEE CSS Vice President Diversity, Outreach & Development, and Member of IEEE CSS Board of Governors and IFAC Council. He has served on the editorial boards of Automatica, IEEE TAC, IEEE TCNS and many other journals. He has also been a member of the Swedish Scientific Council for Natural Sciences and Engineering Sciences. He is Fellow of both the IEEE and the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.

Longer Bio

Dr. Johansson's research interests focus on networked control systems and cyber-physical systems with applications in transportation, energy, and automation networks, areas in which he has co-authored more than 800 journal and conference papers, and supervised close to 100 postdocs and PhD students. He has co-authored or edited 4 books, 33 book chapters, and 7 patents. For his scientific contributions, he has received numerous best paper awards and various distinctions from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), and other organizations. He has been awarded Distinguished Professor by the Swedish Research Council, Wallenberg Scholar by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, Future Research Leader by the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research. He has also received the triennial IFAC Young Author Prize and IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) Distinguished Lecturer. He is the recipient of the 2024 IEEE CSS Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Prize. He is Fellow of both the IEEE and the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.

Dr. Johansson's extensive service to the academic community includes being President of the European Control Association, IEEE CSS Vice President Diversity, Outreach & Development, and Member of IEEE CSS Board of Governors and IFAC Council. He has been a member of the Swedish Scientific Council for Natural Sciences and Engineering Sciences. He has served on the editorial boards of IFAC Automatica, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, IET Control Theory and Applications, European Journal of Control, ACM Transactions on Internet of Things, and Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems, and currently serves ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems and IFAC Annual Reviews in Control. He was the General Chair of the ACM/IEEE Cyber-Physical Systems Week in 2010, IPC Co-Chair of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2023, and General Co-Chair of the European Control Conference 2024.