Deborah Crawford joined the National Science Foundation in October 1993. Since then, she has managed a number of NSF programs and activities, including those in the Electrical and Communications Systems Division, in the Office of Small Business Innovation Research, and the multidisciplinary Engineering Research Centers and Science and Technology Centers. She played a leadership role in the implementation of the Math and Science Partnership program in its inaugural year. Since 1999, she has served as the Senior Staff Associate for Policy and Planning in the Office of the Director
Dr. Crawford has served as NSF’s liaison to the National Science and Technology Council, the Office of Science and Technology Policy, and the NIH Bioengineering Consortium. She has also been active in a significant number of interagency activities and has managed a number of research projects for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
Deborah joined the National Science Foundation from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory where she managed research projects in wavelength division multiplexed optical communication systems and in other high bandwidth photonic systems. While at the University of California Santa Barbara, her research interests included electronic and photonic nanostructures, vertical cavity surface emitting lasers, and high-speed photonic components for high bandwidth communications applications. She spent several years at AT&T; Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, NJ, where her research contributions were in the area of monolithic optoelectronic integrated circuits.
Deborah received her Ph.D. in Information Systems Engineering from the University of Bradford, and her B.Sc. in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from the University of Glasgow.
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