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Naba Barkakati, Chief Technologist, U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO)

Nabajyoti (“Naba”) Barkakati is GAO’s Chief Technologist and co-director of GAO’s Center for Science, Technology, and Engineering. Through his team, he provides technical leadership and assistance on engagements that focus on assessing software intensive systems, cybersecurity, and systems acquisition programs in the federal government. He also manages a data center that provides analytical data processing capabilities to GAO's audit teams. Jointly with the Chief Scientist, he leads GAO's technology assessment work covering subjects such as biometrics, cybersecurity, wildfire protection, cargo security, and explosives detection. During 2007-2008, he led GAO’s work on testing electronic voting machines used in Florida’s Sarasota County. Before joining GAO in 1997, Naba worked as a software engineer on several major systems development and acquisition projects, including shipboard electronic warfare systems at the Naval Research Laboratory and the Advanced Weather Information Processing System at the National Weather Service. Naba earned his bachelor’s degree in electronics and electrical communications from the Indian Institute of Technology, a master’s in electrical engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland at College Park. Naba also is an internationally recognized computer book author with over 25 books to his credit, covering a variety of topics such as C, C++, Java, Perl, Object-oriented programming, and Linux.