Regina Dugan
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19th Director of DARPA
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Regina E. Dugan March 19, 1963 New York, New York, USA |
| Residence | Los Altos, California, USA |
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| Fields | Engineering |
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| Thesis | Axisymmetric buoyant jets in a cross flow with shear: Transition and mixing |
| Doctoral advisor | E. John List |
Regina E. Dugan is an American businesswoman, inventor, and technology developer. She served as the 19th Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). In March 2012, she left government to take an executive role at Google. Just prior to the acquisition, it was announced that she would create, and lead, the Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) group at Google-owned Motorola Mobility. In January 2014, Google announced the acquisition of Motorola Mobility by Lenovo but retained Dugan and her Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) team. In 2016 she left Google and joined Facebook. She will lead a newly formed team called Building 8. In October 2017, Dugan announced she would be leaving Facebook in early 2018 to focus on building and leading a new endeavor.
Dugan obtained her Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in mechanical engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) in Blacksburg, Virginia. In May 2013, she was inducted into the Virginia Tech College of Engineering’s Academy of Engineering Excellence.
Dugan was awarded a PhD by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech); her thesis was titled, “Axisymmetric buoyant jets in a cross flow with shear transition and mixing.”
California State University, Fullerton presented Dugan with an honorary degree in 2011.
In April 2016, Dugan left Google to head Facebook's 'Building 8', a research division similar to Google's ATAP group.
In October 2017, Dugan announced she would be leaving Facebook in early 2018 to focus on building and leading a new endeavor.
Dugan’s advanced technology group was not a part of the Lenovo acquisition of Motorola Mobility. In February 2014, Dugan rejoined Google as Vice President of Engineering, Advanced Technology and Projects. ATAP developed Project Tango and Project Ara.
Shortly after the Google acquisition of Motorola Mobility closed, Dugan was tasked with creating the Advanced Technology and Projects group, a skunkworks-inspired team chartered to deliver breakthrough innovations for the company. In an interview with the New York Times, Dugan described ATAP as "a small, lean, and agile group that is unafraid of failure," she said, and that it will "celebrate impatience."
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