Kristina Johnson

Assistant Professor,  Electrical and Computer Engineering
Assistant Professor,  Communication Sciences and Disorders

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Research Focus

Intersection of neuroscience, engineering, and autism

Education

  • PhD, Media Arts & Sciences (Affective Computing), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021

Research Overview

Intersection of neuroscience, engineering, and autism

Selected Publications

  • Johnson, K.T., O’Brien, A.M., Kershenbaum, A., Narain, J., Radhakrishnan, S., Picard, R.W. (2022, in press). Affective Ratings of Nonverbal Vocalizations Produced by Minimally-Speaking Individuals: What Do Naive Listeners Perceive?. In press for Proceedings of the International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII).
  • Narain, J., Johnson, K.T., Quatieri, T., Picard R.W., Maes, P. (2022). Modeling Real-World Affective and Communicative Nonverbal Vocalizations from Minimally Speaking Individuals. IEEE Transactions of Affective Computing. https://doi.org/10.1109/TAFFC.2022.3208233
  • Narain, J., Johnson, K.T., Quatieri, T., Picard R.W., Maes, P. (2021) Transfer Learning with Real-World Nonverbal Vocalizations from Minimally Speaking Individuals. Workshop in Interpretable ML in Healthcare at International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML).
  • Johnson, K.T. & Picard, R.W. (2020). Advancing Neuroscience through Wearable Devices. Neuron 108(1), 8-12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2020.09.030
  • Narain, J.* & Johnson, K.T.*, Ferguson, C., O’Brien, A., Talkar, T., Zhang, Y., Wofford, P., Quatieri, T., Maes, P., Picard, R.W. (2020). Personalized Modeling of Real-World Vocalizations from Nonverbal Individuals. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimodal Interactions (ICMI). https://doi.org/10.1145/3382507.3418854 (*Co-first authors/equal contribution)

Students

Feb 07, 2025

Spring 2025 PEAK Experiences Awardees for Undergrad Research

Several COE, COS, and Khoury students mentored by COE faculty are recipients of the Spring 2025 PEAK Experiences Awards from Northeastern’s Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships.

Kristina Johnson

Faculty

Oct 09, 2024

Tool To Assess Vocal Communication in Minimally-Speaking Individuals

Kristina Johnson, ECE/Bouvé assistant professor, received a $700,000 NIH Career Development Award for “Using Mobile Technology and Real-World Vocalization Samples To Generate Quantitative Metrics of Vocal Communication for Minimally-Speaking Individuals.”

Students

Apr 22, 2024

Enabling Engineering Students Design Inexpensive Wheelchair Sensor System

Students in Northeastern’s Enabling Engineering class designed a wheelchair rear-sensor system for a resident at The Boston Home, a care center for individuals with progressive neurological conditions. The system met the resident’s needs at a fraction of the cost of a typical wheelchair sensor system.

Kristina Johnson

Faculty

Aug 18, 2023

New Faculty Spotlight: Kristina Johnson

Kristina Johnson joins the Electrical and Computer Engineering department in August 2023 as an Assistant Professor with a joint appointment in Communication Sciences and Disorders.

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