Interview with Arati Prabhakar

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Drawing on her four decades in R&D, presidential science and technology advisor Arati Prabhakar talks about how the US innovation ecosystem can help the country and its citizens to flourish. Engineer and applied physicist Arati Prabhakar is the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and—as assistant to the president for science and technology—is part of President Biden’s cabinet. A member of the National Academy of Engineering, Prabhakar began her career in 1984 as a congressional fellow during her time at the Office of Technology Assessment. In 1993 she became director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and from 2012 to 2017, she was director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. For 15 years she was an executive and venture capitalist in Silicon Valley, and she founded the nonprofit Actuate in 2019. In an interview with Issues editor-in-chief Lisa Margonelli, Prabhakar discusses the changes in semiconductor policy ov

“How Does This Country Do Big Things?” By Arati Prabhakar , Lisa Margonelli Drawing on her four decades in R&D, presidential science and technology advisor Arati Prabhakar talks about how the US innovation ecosystem can help the country and its citizens to flourish. Engineer and applied physicist Arati Prabhakar is the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and—as assistant to the president for science and technology—is part of President Biden’s cabinet. A member of the National Academy of Engineering, Prabhakar began her career in 1984 as a congressional fe

Interview with Arati Prabhakar

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