Arati Prabhakar
Government Official

American New Delhi, India

Quick Info

Profession	Government Official
Nationality	American
Date of Birth	02/02/1959
Age	67 years
Birthplace	New Delhi, India
Citizenship	India (1959–1967) United States (1967–present)

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Physical Stats & More

Eye Color	Black
Hair Color	Grey
Height	5' 7"
Weight	65 kg

Educational Qualification(s)

College/University	Texas Tech University California Institute of Technology
Degrees	Bachelors of Science (Electric Engineering) from Texas Tech University, US (1976 - 1979) Masters of Science (Electric Engineering) and PhD from California Institute of Technology, US (1979 - 1984) Master of Science (Electrical Engineering) from California Institute of Technology (1980) Doctor of Philosophy (Applied Physics) from California Institute of Technology (1984)
Thesis	Investigation of Deep Level Defects in Semiconductor Material Systems (1985)

Relationships & More

Marital Status

Family

Husband/Spouse

Name

Children

2

Parents

Father	Jagdish Chandra Prabhakar
Mother	Raj (Madan) Prabhakar

Career

Political Party	Democratic
Positions Held	1993–1997: 3rd Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology 2012 - 2017: Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency 3 October 2022: Science Advisor to the President and Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy 1984: Congressional Fellow at the Office of Technology Assessment 1986–1993: Program Manager, then Founding Director of the Microelectronics Technology Office at DARPA 1993–1997: 10th Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology 1997–1998: Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President at Raychem 1998–2000: Vice President, then President of Interval Research 2001–2011: Partner with U.S. Venture Partners 2012–2017: 20th Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency 2019: Founder and CEO of Actuate 03/10/2022–20/01/2025: 12th Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and Science and Technology Advisor to the President
Employer	Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency National Institute of Standards and Technology Raychem Interval Research Corporation U.S. Venture Partners Actuate White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
Fields	Applied physics

Some Lesser Known Facts

1. Arati Prabhakar was the first woman to lead the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) from 1993 to 1997.
2. She established the non-profit organization Actuate in 2018.
3. Arati Prabhakar now serves as the CEO of Actuate.
4. She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the U.S. National Academies’ Science Technology and Economic Policy Board.
5. Her family immigrated to the United States from New Delhi, India, when she was three years old.
6. She grew up in Lubbock, Texas, from age ten.
7. She was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University from 2017 to 2018.

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