DARPA Research Seminar

by Office of Research and Technology Management

Lecture/Speaker Admission: Free Audience: Faculty Audience: Graduate/Professional ... Audience: Postdoctoral Scholars Format: In-Person Topic: Research Topic: Science and Technology

Tue, Apr 9, 2024

8 AM – 10 AM EDT (GMT-4)

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The Office of Research and Technology Management invites you to attend a lecture by Dr. Jinendra Ranka, DARPA director of the Defense Sciences office. He will share the structure of the office and explain how researchers can work with their office. DSO has restructured so this will be an applicable presentation for all, even if you have had a DARPA award in the past.
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Jinendra Ranka

Office Director

Defense Advanced Rsearch Projects Agency

Dr. Jinendra Ranka joined DARPA as the director of the Defense Sciences Office in February 2022. Prior to joining DARPA, he was the CEO and a founding partner of JASR Systems.

Ranka has 25 years of experience in academic, commercial, and government research and development. He was a technical staff member at Bell Labs, Sycamore Networks, and MIT Lincoln Laboratory. He served as a program manager in the Strategic Technology Office at DARPA and as a deputy office director at the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA). He has 40+ publications with over 5,000 citations and numerous patents.

Ranka received his doctoral degree in applied and engineering physics from Cornell University in 1998, and his Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1991. He is a fellow of Optica and served as a deputy editor for Optics Letters. He is widely recognized for his discovery of supercontinuum generation in optical fibers and the ability to drastically modify the dispersive properties of waveguide structures into regimes previously not thought possible.


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