Blake N. Johnson
Blake N. Johnson
(MC 0118)
1145 Perry Street
Blacksburg, VA 24061
Research Areas
Main Area: Smart Manufacturing
- Smart Biomanufacturing and Biosensing
- Autonomous Experimentation
- Biosensors and Bioelectronics
- Sensor Manufacturing and Smart Sensing
- Bioprocess Design, Monitoring, and Control
- Theory-guided Machine Learning
- Postdoc, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, 2015
- Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Drexel University, 2013
- B.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2008
- Professor, Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech, 2025 - present
- Associate Professor, Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech, 2022 - 2025
- Assistant Professor, Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech, 2015 - 2022
- Assistant Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, Virginia Tech, 2016 - present
- Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, 2013 - 2015
- Research Assistant, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Drexel University, 2008 - 2013
- ISE 5984: Additive Manufacturing
- ISE 2204: Manufacturing Processes
- ISE 2214: Manufacturing Processes Lab
- ISE 4984: Biomanufacturing Processes
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- Junru Zhang, Purna Srivatsa, Fazel Haq Ahmadzai, ChandraSekhar P., Xuerui Song, Yang Liu, Anuj Karpatne, Zhenyu Kong, & Blake Johnson, Improving Biosensor Accuracy and Speed using Dynamic Signal Change and Theory-guided Deep Learning, Biosensors and Bioelectronics 246 115829 (2023). Linked here.
- Yang Liu, Junru Zhang, Yujing Zhang, Hu Young Yoon, Xiaoting Jia, Maren Roman & Blake N. Johnson*, Accelerated Engineering of Optimized Functional Composite Hydrogels via High-Throughput Experimentation, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 15 52908-52920 (2023). Linked here.
- Ezgi Kucukdeger & Blake N. Johnson*, Closed-loop Controlled Conformal 3D Printing on Moving Objects via Tool-Localized Object Position Sensing, Journal of Manufacturing Processes 89 39-49 (2023). Linked here.
- Yuxin Tong, Ziang Feng, Jongwoon Kim, John Robertson, Xiaoting Jia & Blake N. Johnson, 3D Printed Multi-functional Fibers. Nano Energy 104973 (2020). Linked here.
- Alexander P. Haring, Manjot Singh, Miharu Koh, Ellen Cesewski, David Dillard, Zhenyu Kong & Blake N. Johnson, Real-time Characterization of Hydrogel Viscoelastic Properties and Sol-Gel Phase Transitions using Cantilever Sensors. Journal of Rheology 64 837-850 (2020). Linked here.
- Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE), 2015, Member
- American Chemical Society (ACS), 2010, Member
- American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), 2008, Member
- NSF Career Award, 2022
- SME Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award, 2020
- IISE M&D Division Young Investigator Award, 2018
- Best Dissertation Award - Drexel University, 2013
Blake Johnson receives NSF CAREER Award to improve reliability of biosensors (August 2022)
2018 Undergraduate Research Award winners presented at Senior Symposium (June 2018)
Dr. Blake Johnson receives ICAT SEAD grant, CoE and SEC awards (June 2018)
ISE faculty and students earn multiple honors and awards from IISE (May 2018)
Fist bumps, golf grips, Kapton (December 2017)
Dr. Blake Johnson’s research on additive biomanufacturing and biosensing featured on covers of leading journals (November 2017)
Junior Faculty Awards fund research partnerships across campus (September 2017)
Dr. Blake Johnson interviewed by WVTF on his personalized implantables research (October 2016)
Dr. Blake Johnson received NSF EAGER Award (September 2016)
Spotlight on New Faculty: Industrial and Systems Engineering (October 2015)
3-D printing method can regenerate complex peripheral nerve injuries (September 2015)
College of Engineering announces 34 new hires (August 2015)
ISE Welcomes Two New Faculty in Fall 2015 (August 2015)