PhD.Alati Prabhakar
President Joe Biden nominated engineer and physicist Alathi Prabhakar, who during the Obama administration directed the James Bond-like Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), to the position of scientific advisor The internet and stealth planes have been proposed, which also includes running the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Prabhakar helped start DARPA’s work that eventually resulted in the type of RNA vaccine used to develop a COVID-19 vaccine.
She immigrated with her family from New Delhi, India to Chicago and Texas when she was 3 years old.
In nominating her, Biden called Prabhakar “a brilliant and well-respected engineer and applied physicist” who will help use science and technology “to solve our toughest challenges and make the impossible possible.”
