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John K. Johnstone

John Johnstone. Associate Professor (joint appointment in Ophthalmology)
jkj@uab.edu
University Hall 4161
(205) 975-5633

Research and Teaching Interests: Shape Modeling, Morphometry, Matrix Algorithms, Formal Languages

Office Hours: By appointment

Education:

  • B.S., University of Saskatchewan, Mathematics
  • M.S., Cornell University, Computer Science
  • Ph.D., Cornell University, Computer Science

As an undergraduate at the University of Saskatchewan, I began as a piano performance major but graduated with a degree in mathematics. I did undergraduate research every summer in the CS department, including work on twofold triple systems. During my Ph.D. studies I worked in John Hopcroft’s robotics lab at Cornell, and my dissertation involved analysis of algebraic curves, implemented in Common Lisp on a Lisp machine.

Before joining UAB in 1994 I was on the faculty at Johns Hopkins University. There I developed my present interest in biomedical modeling, drawn to the beautiful geometry of our anatomy. My Ph.D. students have gone on to places like Google, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and Siemens Research, and to start companies like DeepMap.