Arati Prabhakar
Arati Prabhakar (born 1959) headed NIST from 1993 to 1997, and was the first female to head the institute[1][2]. She has a bachelor's degree from Texas Tech University[3] and she earned her PhD in applied physics from Caltech in 1984. She was a member of the board of directors of SRI International.[4] On July 30, 2012, she became the head of DARPA.[5]
Prabhakar immigrated to the United States from India at age three.
References
- ^ "Profile/Arati Prabhakar; She's Not Just Setting Standards". New York Times. Aug 1, 1993.
- ^ Gibbs, W. W. (1995) Profile: Arati Prabhakar – Engineering the Future, Scientific American 272(4), 44–48.
- ^ Biography of Prabhakar at US Energy Dept.
- ^ "Arati Prabhakar". SRI International. Retrieved 2012-03-25.
- ^ "Exclusive: Darpa Gets a New Boss, and Solyndra Is in Her Past".
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