Program Manager
Microsystems Technology Office
Anna Tauke-Pedretti, Ph.D., joined DARPA in November 2022 as a program manager in the Microsystems Technology Office. Her research interests include compound semiconductor devices, optoelectronics, and heterogeneously integrated microsystems.
From 2008 to 2022, Tauke-Pedretti was a research and development manager and technical staff member at Sandia National Laboratories. At Sandia, she managed and led research efforts in photonic integrated circuits, high-power microelectronics, focal plane arrays, and microelectronics security.
Tauke-Pedretti has co-authored more than 80 peer-reviewed publications and conference proceedings and holds 14 patents. She has served as the general chair of the Optica Integrated Photonics Research, Silicon and Nanophotonics Conference, chair of the Albuquerque Chapter of the IEEE Photonics Society, and is an IEEE senior member.
Education
- Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara
- M.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara
- B.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Iowa
- B.S., Physics, University of Iowa
Programs
- DRBE: Digital RF Battlespace Emulator
- HAPPI: Heterogeneous Adaptively Produced Photonic Interfaces
- LUMOS: Lasers for Universal Microscale Optical Systems
- PICASSO: Photonic Integrated Circuit Architectures for Scalable System Objectives
- PIPES: Photonics in the Package for Extreme Scalability
- SOAP: Scalable On-Array Processing
Ideas under incubation
- Efficient optical transduction and actuation
How can we efficiently actuate a light signal without electronics? How can mechanics, biology and chemistry be leveraged on the microscale to interact with optical systems? And what are ways to transduce between these modalities?