Kristina Johnson

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Kristina Johnson
Dean of the Pratt School of Engineering, 1999-2007
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Dean Johnson
Status Administrator
Position Dean of Engineering
Education B.S., M.S., Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering
Stanford


Kristina M. Johnson was the Dean of the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University from 1999-2007, when she took over the position of Provost at The Johns Hopkins University[1]. She also serves as Director at Boston Scientific Corporation. Dr. Johnson received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University. She has also served as director of the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center for Optoelectronics Computing Systems at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Additionally, Dr. Johnson co-founded the Colorado Advanced Technology Institute Center of Excellence in Optoelectronics and is a director of Minerals Technologies Inc., AES Corporation, and Guidant Corporation (until Guidant's merger with Boston Scientific)

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[edit] Distinctions[2]

  • National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator (1985)
  • IBM Faculty Fellow (1985)
  • Fulbright Fellow (1991)
  • Dennis Gabor Prize for Creativity and Innovation in Modern Optics (1993)
  • Photonics Spectra Circle of Excellence Award (1994)
  • State of Colorado Technology Transfer Award (1987)
  • Optical Society of America (OSA) Fellow (1995)
  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow (2002)
  • Women In Technology International (WITI) Hall of Fame (2003).
  • Dr. Johnson is a founder of four companies (ColorLink, Inc., KAJ, Inc., Colorado Microdisplay and Southeast TechInventures) and helped start several others. She serves on the Board of Directors of Mineral Technologies, Inc., Dycom Industries, and on the Advisory Boards of Smith College Pickering, Carnegie Mellon University School of Engineering, and Colorado School of Mines, and the National Science Foundation Advisory Committee to the Engineering Directorate (Chair 2003-2004).
  • Dr. Johnson is a member of the Fulbright Association, Sigma Xi, Lasers and Electro-optic Society, Society of Photo-instrumentation Engineers, Society for Information Display, Tau Beta Pi, OSA, IEEE and American Society of Engineering Education.

[edit] References

  1. ↑ Engineering Dean Kristina Johnson to Become Provost at Johns Hopkins University
  2. ↑ Duke ECE Profile

[edit] External links

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