NEW DELHI: United States President Joe Biden has introduced his intent to appoint Indian-American scientist Dr Arati Prabhakar to function the director of the workplace of science and know-how coverage (OSTP), and as soon as confirmed to this place, additionally because the assistant to the president for science and know-how. On this capability, Dr Prabhakar would be the president’s chief advisor for science and know-how, a co-chair of the president’s council of advisors on science and know-how and a member of the president’s Cupboard.
“Dr Prabhakar is a superb and extremely revered engineer and utilized physicist and can lead the workplace of science and know-how coverage to leverage science, know-how, and innovation to increase our potentialities, remedy our hardest challenges, and make the unattainable potential,” President Biden mentioned in a press release saying the nomination. “I share Dr Prabhakar’s perception that America has probably the most highly effective innovation machine the world has ever seen. Because the Senate considers her nomination, I’m grateful that Dr Alondra Nelson will proceed to steer OSTP and Dr Francis Collins will proceed to function my performing science advisor.”
Welcoming Dr Prabhakar’s nomination to the important thing function, Analysis!America, an influential non-profit medical and well being analysis advocacy alliance, mentioned that the US will probably be properly served by her deep understanding of the pivotal function the federal authorities can play to advance innovation in science and know-how.
Prabhakar has been unanimously confirmed by the US Senate earlier, to steer the Nationwide Institute of Requirements and Know-how (NIST), and was the primary lady to carry that function. She later served because the director of the protection superior analysis tasks company (DARPA), the birthplace of breakthrough applied sciences like stealth plane and the web, the White Home assertion mentioned.
If confirmed to steer the OSTP, Prabhakar would turn out to be the third Asian-American, native Hawaiian, or Pacific islander to serve in President Biden’s Cupboard, becoming a member of Vice President Kamala Harris and US Commerce Consultant Katherine Tai. The nomination is historic, with Prabhakar being the primary lady, immigrant or individual of color nominated to function Senate-confirmed director of the OSTP.
Dr Prabhakar has led two completely different federal R&D businesses and labored with startups, massive corporations, universities, authorities labs and non-profits throughout all kinds of sectors to create highly effective new options for important challenges.
Prabhakar served as director of DARPA from 2012 to 2017 the place she oversaw groups that prototyped a system for detecting nuclear and radiological supplies earlier than a terrorist can construct a bomb, that developed instruments to search out human trafficking networks within the deep and darkish internet, and that enabled complicated navy programs to work collectively even once they weren’t initially designed to take action, the White Home assertion added. “She additionally established a brand new workplace to spur novel biotechnologies. Underneath her management, DARPA kick-started the event of a rapid-response mRNA vaccine platform, making potential the quickest protected and efficient vaccine growth in world historical past in response to COVID-19.”
Prabhakar was unanimously confirmed by the US Senate to steer the Nationwide Institute of Requirements and Know-how (NIST), taking the helm when she was simply 34, as the primary lady to steer the company. At NIST, which she led from 1993 to 1997, she helped take from early seed stage to nationwide scale the manufacturing extension partnership to spice up the competitiveness of small- and mid-size producers, and the superior know-how programme to stimulate early-stage superior know-how growth. She additionally bolstered NIST’s long-time mission in measurement science and know-how that underpins commerce and high-quality manufacturing.
Bart Gordon, vice chair of the Analysis!America board and companion at Ok&L Gates LLP, mentioned he had the privilege of working with Dr Prabhakar when he chaired the Home science committee. “I imagine she is an ideal match for this important function,” mentioned Gordon.
Between her federal management roles, Prabhakar spent 15 years in Silicon Valley, serving to deliver R&D to deployment as an organization govt and as a enterprise capitalist. Her work included parts for shopper electronics and semiconductor course of know-how. In 2019, she based Actuate, a non-profit organisation bringing new actors to the desk to develop options to the challenges of local weather, well being, reliable information and knowledge know-how, and opening entry to alternative for each individual.
Prabhakar’s household immigrated from India to the USA when she was three years outdated – first to Chicago after which settling down in Lubbock, Texas, the place she went on to get her electrical engineering diploma from Texas Tech College. She was the primary lady to earn a PhD in utilized physics from the California Institute of Know-how, the place she additionally earned an MS in electrical engineering. She began her profession within the legislative department as a Congressional fellow on the workplace of know-how evaluation.
She is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and a member of the Nationwide Academy of Engineering, apart from being a fellow on the Heart for Superior Examine within the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford College.
Indian American Influence welcomes Prabhakar’s nomination
Indian American Influence, a distinguished organisation that elevates the voices of Indian Individuals, South Asians, and all traditionally excluded communities to make sure that each stage of presidency displays the variety and values of the folks it serves, is celebrating the nomination of Prabhakar as White Home science advisor and US President Joe Biden’s unrelenting dedication to a various Cupboard and recognition of the Asian American neighborhood.
“Indian American Influence is thrilled to study that President Biden intends to appoint Dr Arati Prabhakar as director of the workplace of science and know-how coverage. We applaud the President for his historic choice, which uplifts not solely the exceptionally certified Dr Prabhakar, however all South Asians and Asian Individuals who aspire to achieve new heights and turn out to be leaders inside public service and the scientific neighborhood,” Neil Makhija, govt director of Indian American Influence, mentioned in a press release.
“Now we have little question that Dr Prabhakar, the primary lady, Asian American and immigrant to function OSTP director, will deliver brilliance, willpower and various management to her historic submit as a member of the President’s Cupboard.”
“Dr Prabhakar is a superb and extremely revered engineer and utilized physicist and can lead the workplace of science and know-how coverage to leverage science, know-how, and innovation to increase our potentialities, remedy our hardest challenges, and make the unattainable potential,” President Biden mentioned in a press release saying the nomination. “I share Dr Prabhakar’s perception that America has probably the most highly effective innovation machine the world has ever seen. Because the Senate considers her nomination, I’m grateful that Dr Alondra Nelson will proceed to steer OSTP and Dr Francis Collins will proceed to function my performing science advisor.”
Welcoming Dr Prabhakar’s nomination to the important thing function, Analysis!America, an influential non-profit medical and well being analysis advocacy alliance, mentioned that the US will probably be properly served by her deep understanding of the pivotal function the federal authorities can play to advance innovation in science and know-how.
Prabhakar has been unanimously confirmed by the US Senate earlier, to steer the Nationwide Institute of Requirements and Know-how (NIST), and was the primary lady to carry that function. She later served because the director of the protection superior analysis tasks company (DARPA), the birthplace of breakthrough applied sciences like stealth plane and the web, the White Home assertion mentioned.
If confirmed to steer the OSTP, Prabhakar would turn out to be the third Asian-American, native Hawaiian, or Pacific islander to serve in President Biden’s Cupboard, becoming a member of Vice President Kamala Harris and US Commerce Consultant Katherine Tai. The nomination is historic, with Prabhakar being the primary lady, immigrant or individual of color nominated to function Senate-confirmed director of the OSTP.
Dr Prabhakar has led two completely different federal R&D businesses and labored with startups, massive corporations, universities, authorities labs and non-profits throughout all kinds of sectors to create highly effective new options for important challenges.
Prabhakar served as director of DARPA from 2012 to 2017 the place she oversaw groups that prototyped a system for detecting nuclear and radiological supplies earlier than a terrorist can construct a bomb, that developed instruments to search out human trafficking networks within the deep and darkish internet, and that enabled complicated navy programs to work collectively even once they weren’t initially designed to take action, the White Home assertion added. “She additionally established a brand new workplace to spur novel biotechnologies. Underneath her management, DARPA kick-started the event of a rapid-response mRNA vaccine platform, making potential the quickest protected and efficient vaccine growth in world historical past in response to COVID-19.”
Prabhakar was unanimously confirmed by the US Senate to steer the Nationwide Institute of Requirements and Know-how (NIST), taking the helm when she was simply 34, as the primary lady to steer the company. At NIST, which she led from 1993 to 1997, she helped take from early seed stage to nationwide scale the manufacturing extension partnership to spice up the competitiveness of small- and mid-size producers, and the superior know-how programme to stimulate early-stage superior know-how growth. She additionally bolstered NIST’s long-time mission in measurement science and know-how that underpins commerce and high-quality manufacturing.
Bart Gordon, vice chair of the Analysis!America board and companion at Ok&L Gates LLP, mentioned he had the privilege of working with Dr Prabhakar when he chaired the Home science committee. “I imagine she is an ideal match for this important function,” mentioned Gordon.
Between her federal management roles, Prabhakar spent 15 years in Silicon Valley, serving to deliver R&D to deployment as an organization govt and as a enterprise capitalist. Her work included parts for shopper electronics and semiconductor course of know-how. In 2019, she based Actuate, a non-profit organisation bringing new actors to the desk to develop options to the challenges of local weather, well being, reliable information and knowledge know-how, and opening entry to alternative for each individual.
Prabhakar’s household immigrated from India to the USA when she was three years outdated – first to Chicago after which settling down in Lubbock, Texas, the place she went on to get her electrical engineering diploma from Texas Tech College. She was the primary lady to earn a PhD in utilized physics from the California Institute of Know-how, the place she additionally earned an MS in electrical engineering. She began her profession within the legislative department as a Congressional fellow on the workplace of know-how evaluation.
She is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and a member of the Nationwide Academy of Engineering, apart from being a fellow on the Heart for Superior Examine within the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford College.
Indian American Influence welcomes Prabhakar’s nomination
Indian American Influence, a distinguished organisation that elevates the voices of Indian Individuals, South Asians, and all traditionally excluded communities to make sure that each stage of presidency displays the variety and values of the folks it serves, is celebrating the nomination of Prabhakar as White Home science advisor and US President Joe Biden’s unrelenting dedication to a various Cupboard and recognition of the Asian American neighborhood.
“Indian American Influence is thrilled to study that President Biden intends to appoint Dr Arati Prabhakar as director of the workplace of science and know-how coverage. We applaud the President for his historic choice, which uplifts not solely the exceptionally certified Dr Prabhakar, however all South Asians and Asian Individuals who aspire to achieve new heights and turn out to be leaders inside public service and the scientific neighborhood,” Neil Makhija, govt director of Indian American Influence, mentioned in a press release.
“Now we have little question that Dr Prabhakar, the primary lady, Asian American and immigrant to function OSTP director, will deliver brilliance, willpower and various management to her historic submit as a member of the President’s Cupboard.”