Copyright

Jinendra Ranka

Published On

2020-01-09

Page Range

pp. 303-314

Language

  • English

Print Length

11 pages

10. DARPA—Enabling Technical Innovation

  • Jinendra Ranka (author)
Chapter of: The DARPA Model for Transformative Technologies: Perspectives on the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (pp. 303–314)

Chapter 10, by Jinendra Ranka, a former DARPA program manager, provides a perspective on the role of DARPA program managers in the DARPA model.

Contributors

Jinendra Ranka

(author)

Jinendra Ranka, PhD, has over twenty-five 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, and is currently the CEO at JASR Systems. Dr. Ranka served as a program manager in the Strategic Technology Office at DARPA and as a Deputy Office Director at IARPA. He has over 40 publications with over 5,000 citations and numerous patents. Dr. Ranka received his Doctoral degree in Applied & Engineering Physics from Cornell University in 1997 and his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1991. Dr. Ranka is a fellow of the Optical Society of America and is known for his discovery of supercontinuum generation in optical fibers.