Kristina M. Johnson has been a Director since April 2006. Dr. Johnson is Provost and Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs at The Johns Hopkins University. Until July 2007 she was the Dean of the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University a position she had held since July 1999. Dr. Johnson served as a professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department University of Colorado from 1994 to 1999 and as associate and assistant professor from 1985. She served as deputy director and later as director of the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center for Optoelectronics Computing Systems at the University of Colorado Boulder from 1992 to 1997. Dr. Johnson was a Fulbright Faculty Scholar in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Edinburgh Scotland from 1991 to 1992 and a NATO Post-Doctoral Fellow at Trinity College Dublin Ireland from 1983 to 1985. Dr. Johnson is a co-founder of the Colorado Advanced Technology Institute Center of Excellence in Optoelectronics and is a director of Minerals Technologies Inc. AES Corporation and Nortel Corporation. Dr Johnson also serves on the board of directors of the Society of Photo - Instrumentation Engineers and Duke Children's Classic to benefit Duke Children's Hospital. Dr. Johnson received B.S. M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University. |