The US President Joe Biden has nominated Arati Prabhakar as the director of Office of Science and Technology Policy and assistant to the President on science and technology.
- Prabhakar has earlier served as the director of the Defence Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA), a key innovative hub of new technologies, and led the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
- Dr Prabhakar, 63, is an engineer and applied physicist with extensive management and leadership credentials.
- Prabhakar was three when her family immigrated to the United States from Delhi. They first moved to Chicago and then settled in Lubbock, Texas, when she was 10.
- She received an electrical engineering degree from Texas Tech University in 1979.
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