2025 TIDC Annual Conference Info

Dr. Vincent Tang is the deputy director of ARPA-I and is performing the duties of the director to establish the agency.  Dr. Tang comes from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), where he was most recently the principal deputy director of the National Ignition Facility and Photon Science Directorate.  In this role, he was part of the senior management team overseeing and supporting efforts to produce transformational capabilities and results for DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and US national security, including the historic achievement of fusion ignition on the NIF for NNSA’s Stockpile Stewardship Program.  Tang supported the establishment of LLNL’s inertial fusion energy initiative to build on ignition for energy applications, including formulating public-private partnerships to support DOE’s decadal vision for accelerating fusion commercialization. Tang was also a member of the DoD’s Defense Science Board from 2022-2024, and co-chair of its subcommittee on threat reduction.