Lall Bio

Pradeep Lall (M:1990, SM: 2008, F: 2012) is the MacFarlane Endowed Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Director of NSF Center for Advanced Vehicle and Extreme Environment Electronics at Auburn University.  He serves on the Technical Council and Governing Council of NextFlex Manufacturing Institute.  Dr. Lall is author and co-author of 2-books, 14 book chapters, and over 500 journal and conference papers in the field of electronics reliability, safety, energy efficiency, and survivability.  Dr. Lall, a fellow of IEEE, fellow of the ASME, and fellow of the Alabama Academy of Sciences.  Dr. Lall is recipient of the NSF’s Alex Schwarzkopf Award for Technology Innovation, Alabama Academy of Science Wright A, Gardner Award, IEEE Exceptional Technical Achievement Award, ASME-EPPD Applied Mechanics Award, SMTA’s Member of Technical Distinction Award, Auburn University’s Creative Research and Scholarship Award, SEC Faculty Achievement Award, Samuel Ginn College of Engineering Senior Faculty Research Award, Three-Motorola Outstanding Innovation Awards, Five-Motorola Engineering Awards, and Twenty Best-Paper Awards at national and international conferences.  Dr. Lall has served in several distinguished roles at national and international level including serving as member of National Academies Committee on Electronic Vehicle Controls, Member of the IEEE Reliability Society AdCom, IEEE Reliability Society Representative on the IEEE-USA Government Relations Council for R&D Policy, Chair of Congress Steering Committee for the ASME Congress, Member of the technical committee of the European Simulation Conference EuroSIME, and Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging Technologies.  He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland and the M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.