In her first extended interview, WHOSTP Director Arati Prabhakar describes her vision for balancing basic and solutions-oriented research.
Arati Prabhakar has been part of the U.S. research establishment for 3 decades. Now, the 64-year-old applied physicist stands at its epicenter, as science adviser to President Joe Biden and director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Last week, in her first extended media interview since being confirmed by the Senate on 3 October 2022, she laid out her vision for that $700-billion-a-year enterprise.
The daughter of Indian immigrants who came to the United States when she was 3 years old, Prabhakar flagged a more diverse scientific workforce as another essential ingredient. But Prabhakar offered no olive branch to those scientists of Chinese ancestry who feel the U.S. governmentHere are excerpts from When you hear someone call for an ARPA, what you are hearing is a cry for R&D that provides solutions to very hard problems.
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