David K. Johnson

Dave currently serves Ushr as Chief Scientist and leads Research & Development. Dave received his Ph.D. in Engineering/Applied Mathematics from the University of Akron and has over 20 years of experience in the mathematical modeling of physical phenomena.

His background includes work on inverse problems in Optical Scattering from shock waves while doing his graduate research at NASA-Lewis Research Center, modeling problems in Computational Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer for interior climate control while at Ford and Visteon, and inverse problems for parameter estimation and blind de-convolution in Radar Systems and Specific Emitter Identification while at General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems.

He formerly served as President and Chief Scientist at Michigan Aerospace Corporation, where he led a team of scientists on all stages of technology development and developed solutions for inverse problems in atmospheric remote sensing. Dave has six patents covering topics in Atmospheric Remote Sensing and Controls.