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Dr. Kristina M. Johnson is the Dean of the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University. She received her B.S., M.S. (with distinction) and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University. After a NATO post-doctoral fellowship at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, she joined the University of Colorado-Boulder's faculty in 1985 as an Assistant Professor, promoted to full Professor in 1994. From 1994 until 1999 Johnson directed the NSF/ERC for Optoelectronics Computing Systems Center at University of Colorado and Colorado State University. She has published over 140 refereed papers and proceedings, and holds forty-three patents. Dr. Johnson received the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award (1985), the IBM Faculty Award, and the Dennis Gabor Prize, for "creativity and innovation in modern optics" (1993), and the Photonics Spectra Circle of Excellence Award for her design of the 128 x 128 liquid-crystal-on-silicon spatial light modulator (1994). Dr. Johnson is a recipient of the Colorado Technology Transfer Award by the Colorado Advanced Technology Institute (1997), the Council for Entrepreneurial Development Infrastructure Award in North Carolina (2001), was inducted into the Women In Technology International (WITI) Hall of Fame (2003) and received the Achievement Award, the highest honor from the Society of Women Engineers in 2004. A fellow of the Optical Society of America, IEEE and a Fulbright Scholar, Dr. Johnson is a director of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering. She has helped start several companies including founder of ColorLink, Inc. and sits on the Board of Directors of several publicly traded companies including Mineral Technologies Inc., Boston Scientific Corporation, AES Corporation and Nortel (and is a former director of Guidant Corporation and Dycom Industries). Dr. Johnson currently serves on the advisory boards of the Colorado School of Mines, the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Engineering, the Duke Childrens' Classic, and the North Carolina Institute for Emerging Issues. She has previously served on the advisory committee to the NSF Engineering Directorate (Chair, 2003-04), Science Foundation Ireland, Smith College Pickering School, and Carnegie Mellon University. | 