Arati Prabhakar

Arati Prabhakar joined USVP in 2001. She was a program manager and then director of the Microelectronics Technology Office at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) from 1986 until 1993 when President Clinton appointed her as the director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), where she led the 3000-person staff until 1997. At DARPA and NIST, Arati Prabhakar worked with over 300 companies, universities, and other labs to pursue breakthrough technologies in semiconductor manufacturing, imaging, optoelectronics, and nanoelectronics. Subsequently, Dr. Prabhakar held the positions of senior vice president and chief technology officer at Raychem Corporation, and president of Interval Research Corporation. She received an M.S. in Electrical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from the California Institute of Technology.