Jeanine Johnson

Dr. Jeanine Johnson is an adjunct professor of cybersecurity at The George Washington University School of Engineering and Applied Science, where she advises doctoral research in AI- and machine learning-driven cybersecurity. Her research focuses on AI agent safety and governance, scalable threat detection for high-risk environments, and anomaly detection in cyber-physical systems. Her current work addresses emerging risks in agentic AI, including prompt injection attack surfaces, automated policy enforcement, and trust frameworks for AI-driven operations at scale.

Dr. Johnson has held senior security leadership roles at Apple, Amazon, and other major technology companies, where she led product security programs across cloud, device, and platform ecosystems. She is the co-founder of Immutaverse, an AI security company focused on firmware integrity and agentic AI governance for critical systems. She serves on the boards of InfraGard NorCal and PJM Interconnection, where she has chaired the Nominating Committee and served on the Risk and Audit, Reliability and Security, HR and Finance Committees.

Dr. Johnson holds a D.Eng. in Cybersecurity Analytics from The George Washington University, an MBA from Cornell University, and dual B.S. degrees in Computer Science and Computer Engineering from the University of Missouri.