Interested in engaging with science policy on the local or state level? Then come to a Career Talk with Dr. Arti Garg Thursday, October 24 at 4-5:30 p.m. in Mission Hall 1401.
Following the talk and discussion with the audience, there will be a networking session with Dr. Garg. Refreshments will be served. This event is co-sponsored with the Science Policy Group.
Arti Garg is founder and chair of Engineers & Scientists Acting Locally (ESAL; www.esal.us), a national organization dedicated to increasing city, county, and state level engagement by professionals with backgrounds in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). She currently serves on the Community Services Commission in the city of Hayward, California. When not promoting local engagement or working with her fellow Hayward residents and municipal officials, Dr. Garg is the Emerging Market & Technology Director at Cray, Inc. Prior to her current position, she worked across multiple industrial and IoT verticals as a data scientist.
Previously, Dr. Garg spent several years in the Federal government. She was a 2009-10 American Physical Society-sponsored AAAS Science & Technology Congressional Fellow. She served her fellowship on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. She later worked for the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) where she oversaw over $5 billion of R&D investments in the Department of Energy's Office of Science and Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E). Her science policy journey also includes working for the University of California Office of the President (UCOP). Her interest in science policy was initially sparked by her fall 2003 Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Fellowship at the National Academies.
Dr. Garg holds a PhD in Physics from Harvard University and an MS in Aeronautical & Astronautical Engineering as well as bachelor's degrees in Physics and English from Stanford University. After completing her graduate work, Dr. Garg was a post-doctoral researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.