Raji Shankar is a senior member of the technical staff at the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc., in Cambridge, Massachusetts. After earning her Ph.D. in engineering sciences from Harvard University in 2013, she worked for three years as a research scientist at Schlumberger-Doll Research, a research lab of the oilfield services giant Schlumberger.
Since early 2018, Raji has been a staff scientist in the Quantum Technologies and Applied Physics group at Draper, a non-profit research and development organization focusing on national security, space exploration, health care and energy.