Ep 05: Rachel Slaybaugh, ARPA-E

In this episode we interview Rachel Slaybaugh, who, before we
were introduced, on three separate occasions was recommended as a
must have on this program. She’s a professor at UC Berkeley,
founder of the Nuclear boot camp which we’ll discuss shortly, and
newest program director at ARPA-E. Today we discuss:


- Rachel’s introduction to nuclear science and technical
expertise
- The genesis of the world’s first nuclear startup
accelerator
- The need to use computation thoughtfully to replace or
supplement experiments
- Her recent appointment as an Arpa-E program director
and it’s focus on supporting enabling technologies such as
robotics, sophisticated sensing, model-based fault detection, and
secure networks