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Provost, Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs The Johns Hopkins University Dr. Kristina M. Johnson is provost and senior vice president of academic affairs at The Johns Hopkins University. As chief academic officer, she is focused on promoting faculty quality at one of the world’s most prestigious research universities. She is an electrical engineer with 40 patents and co-founder of several start-up companies. She is the first woman to hold Johns Hopkins' second-ranking position. Dr. Johnson graduated from Stanford University in 1981 with both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in electrical engineering. She earned her Ph.D. at Stanford in 1984. She was on the faculty at Colorado from 1985 to 1999, earning a National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award and winning promotion to professor. From 1993 to 1997, she directed an NSF Engineering Research Center for Optoelectronic Computing Systems run jointly by Colorado and Colorado State. Prior to joining Johns Hopkins, she was engineering dean at Duke University where her college recorded significant growth in both size and quality. Of 50 new faculty members recruited during her tenure, 14 have won early career “young investigator” awards. The undergraduate student body has grown 20 percent and strong graduate programs have doubled in size. Dr. Johnson oversaw planning, funding and construction of the 322,000-square-foot Fitzpatrick Center for Interdisciplinary Engineering, Medicine and Applied Sciences. The school's research expenditures have tripled to $60 million and the endowment has grown from $20 million to $200 million. She is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the Optical Society of America. In 2003, she was inducted into the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame. In 2004, she won the Achievement Award of the Society of Women Engineers. With more than 140 published articles, she is best known in research circles for pioneering work in the field of "smart pixel arrays," which has applications in displays, pattern recognition and high resolution sensors, including cameras. |
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