BRIAN BRADLEY JOHNSON
Presentation for gener8tor & Allianz, Twin Cities Startup Week
Hello. Welcome to my website for graduate applications. Here you will find information on my research, engineering, educational goals and entrepreneurship. In the last few years my work has been presented in Amsterdam, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, and elsewhere. I believe that medical robotics, multi-modal sensing methods, and artificial intelligence are the fundamental innovations that will bring unlimited health services to humanity on a global scale.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Featured Articles
Institute for Engineering in Medicine
How TLI’s Medical Device Innovation program trains the next generation of leaders for a constantly changing industry
Technological Leadership Institute
Brian Johnson (MDI '25) has a lot to say about health care, artificial intelligence, the pace of technological innovation and how spirituality should guide the creation of artificial life.
Current Research
The following current research areas represent my master’s publications. These studies have given me special insights for PhD research possiblities.
My vision of technology bridges art and science, health and spirituality, data and intuition.
Conference Paper & Poster
Design of Medical Devices Conference 2024
American Society for Mechanical Engineers
Noninvasive Patient Monitoring with Ambient Sensors to Monitor Physical and Cognitive Health for Individuals Living with Alzheimer’s Disease
2024-4 | Journal article
University of Minnesota
DOI: 10.1115/DMD2024-1030
1) Integrating Noninvasive Radiofrequency Monitoring Technology Into Clinical Decision-Making
2) Establishing a Remote Patient Monitoring Infrastructure with Starlink in Indonesia for the Aging Population to Improve Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care
3) Cyclomatic Complexity: A Novel Approach for Analyzing Movement with Machine Learning to Predict Mild Cognitive Impairment
4) A Novel Approach to Identify Sundowning with Cyclomatic Complexity Movement Analysis and Noninvasive Ambient Sensors
Conference Abstracts & Posters. DOI: December 2024
Alzheimer’s Association International Conference 2024
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
July 28, 2024
DOI: December 2024
Conference Paper & Poster
AAIC 2023
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Alzheimer's & Dementia
2023-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/alz.078644
Part of ISSN: 1552-5260
Part of ISSN: 1552-5279
Future Research
The following future research areas represent my current interests for PhD studies. I expect these topics to continually evolve, adapt, and reinvent as I am exposed to different labs, professors, and scientists.
Future Interest Area
Relationship Between Human Movement Patterns & Cognitive Health
During my master’s research I discovered correlations between human movement patterns and cognitive health. This relationship is in the early stages of what could lead to a deeper understanding of how movement correlates to emotion, infection, disease progression, and cognitive health. I am to further research in this area within a number of potentially high impact areas with novel approaches and technology.
Future Interest Area
Noninvasive Neuroengineering & Neuromodulation Applications
Utilization of neuroengineering applications is one of the primary considerations for individuals. The ability to monitor brain activity without the need to open the skull holds tremendous potential for large populations to utilize novel applications to monitor and improve cognitive function.
Human & Robot Interaction for caregivers is one of strongest cases to reduce healthcare costs at a population level. The shortage of nurses is global problem that nearly all nations face for the next few decades.
Human & Robot Interaction for continuous care connecting physicians and patients through algorithmically driven methods like Mayo Clinic Platform hold disruptive potential for economically limited nations to leapfrog antiquated health systems and leverage the latest in digital health and AI.
Human & Robot Interaction for individualized preventive medicine through mobile applications, personal devices, and eventually humanoid robots, will assist individuals in living a higher quality of life through equitably distributed technologies.
Future Interest Area
Human & Robot Interaction in Medicine
Entrepreunership in Medicine
Ambient Intelligence Inc. is a medtech startup that utilizes ultra high frequency radar sensors for noninvasive and contactless monitoring of the aging population.
Brian is the Founder of Ambient Intelligence Inc.
Translational Science
Ambient Intelligence Inc.
As Founder of Ambient Intelligence I have received several research grants to develop a noninvasive and contactless monitoring system for the aging population. If successful this solution has the potential to transform how humans care for one another as aging individuals progress on the continuum of care. The current standard for assessing the ability to live independently is eye-witness. Our systems collects 1000 pieces of data per minute, 1B per year on the activity trends of individuals. In the summer of 2024 we attained venture capital backing by gener8tor and Allianz.