Biography

Pradeep Lall is the Thomas Walter Professor in the Auburn University Department of Mechanical Engineering with a joint appointment in the Department of Finance.  He is the Director of NSF-CAVE3 Electronics Research Center at Auburn University (a National Science Foundation I/UCRC).  His research areas are in electronic reliability, prognostics, material constitutive behavior, nano-composites, failure mechanisms, life prediction models, and explicit dynamics. He is author and co-author of two-books, thirteen book-chapters, and more than 290 journal and conference papers in the field of electronics packaging with emphasis on design, modeling and predictive techniques.  He is a member of the National Academies Committee on Electronic Vehicle Controls and Unintended Acceleration.  He is a fellow of the IEEE, a fellow of the ASME, recipient of the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering Senior Faculty Research Award, and a Six-Sigma Black-Belt in Statistics.  He is the recipient of Nineteen-Best-Paper Awards, three Motorola Outstanding Innovation Awards, and five Motorola Engineering Awards.  Dr. Lall is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging Technologies.  Dr. Lall is the Chair-Elect for ASME Congress Steering Committee.  He is the founding faculty advisor for the SMTA student chapter at Auburn University and member of the Editorial Advisory Board for SMTA Journal.  He earned the B.E. degree from the University of Delhi, the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Maryland, and the M.B.A. degree from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.