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An Indian American political scientist from MIT has been sworn in as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space Policy.
Vipin Narang made the announcement public on Tuesday, 29 March, that he is “taking a public service leave” from the university.
It is a high-level civilian post in the United States Department of Defense. Narang’s work, according to his tweet, will include “nuclear, cyber, and missile defense policy”.
Born in the San Francisco Bay area in the United States to parents of Indian descent, Narang was the Frank Stanton Professor of Nuclear Security and Political Science at MIT, and he was also a member of the university’s Security Studies Program.
He earned his PhD in 2010 from the Department of Government, Harvard University.
He holds a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in chemical engineering with distinction from Stanford University.
Additionally, he earned an M Phil with Distinction in international relations from Oxford University, where he was enrolled on a Marshall Scholarship.
His research expertise is nuclear proliferation and strategy (especially with respect to North Korea), and South Asian security.
He was the recipient of the 2020 ISSS Emerging Scholar Award from the International Studies Association awarded to the scholar who “had made the most significant contribution to the field of security studies.”
He received his PhD from the Department of Government, Harvard University in 2010. He holds a BS and MS in chemical engineering with distinction from Stanford University and an M Phil with Distinction in international relations from Balliol College, Oxford University, where he studied on a Marshall Scholarship.
He has been a fellow at Harvard University’s Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, a predoctoral fellow at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, and a Stanton junior faculty fellow at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation.
His research interests include nuclear proliferation and strategy, North Korea’s nuclear weapons, South Asian security, and general security studies.
