Pradeep Lall
MacFarlane Endowed Distinguished Professor and Alumni Professor
Director, Auburn University Electronics Packaging Research Institute (EPRI)
Phone: 334-844-3424
Fax: 334-844-3450
Email: lall@auburn.edu
Office: 1438 Wiggins Hall
Pradeep Lall is the MacFarlane Endowed Distinguished Professor and Alumni Professor with the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Auburn University Electronics Packaging Research Institute. He holds a Joint Courtesy Appointment in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is a member of the technical council and academic co-lead of automotive and asset monitoring TWGs of NextFlex Manufacturing Institute. Prior to joining Auburn University, Dr. Lall worked for Motorola, focusing on various aspects of wireless communications products.
He is the author and co-author of 2-books, 15 book chapters, and over 1000 journal and conference papers in the field of electronics reliability, manufacturing, and survivability. He holds three U.S. Patents, Three-Motorola Outstanding Innovation Awards, and Five-Motorola Engineering Awards. His publications have garnered over 13,000 citations, an H-index of 53, and an i10-index of 317. Dr. Lall is ranked in the highest quantile amongst the top 2 percent of Scientific Researchers worldwide, based on data compiled by Stanford University. The ranking system includes scientists in 20 fields and 174 sub-fields. On ranking by field and sub-field, based on career publications, Dr. Lall is ranked in the top 0.3 percent out of 143,311 scientists in the subfield of mechanical engineering & transportation.
Dr. Lall is a fellow of the ASME, a fellow of the IEEE, a fellow of the NextFlex National Manufacturing Institute, and a fellow of the Alabama Academy of Science. He is the recipient of the SMTA Founder’s Award in 2024 for exceptional contributions to Electronics Manufacturing, SEMI R&D Achievements Award for landmark contributions to Additive Manufactured Electronics in 2023, ASME Avram Bar-Cohen Memorial Medal in 2022, IEEE Biedenbach Outstanding Engineering Educator Award in 2020, Auburn University Research Advisory Board’s Advancement of Research and Scholarship Achievement Award in 2018, IEEE Sustained Outstanding Technical Contributions Award in 2018, NSF’s Alex Schwarzkopf Award for Technology Innovation in 2016, Alabama Academy of Science Wright A, Gardner Award in 2016, IEEE Exceptional Technical Achievement Award in 2014, ASME-EPPD Applied Mechanics Award in 2013, SMTA’s Member of Technical Distinction Award in 2013, Auburn University’s Creative Research and Scholarship Award in 2013, SEC Faculty Achievement Award in 2013, Samuel Ginn College of Engineering Senior Faculty Research Award in 2007 and 2016, and over Fifty Best-Paper Awards at national and international conferences.
Dr. Lall has served in several distinguished roles at the national and international level including serving as a member of the National Academies Committee on Electronic Vehicle Controls, IEEE Electronics Packaging Society Board-of-Governors, Member of the IEEE Reliability Society AdCom, IEEE Electronics Packaging Society Representative on the IEEE-USA Artificial Intelligence Policy Committee, 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, Associate Editor for the IEEE Access Journal, and Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging Technologies. Dr. Lall is the founding faculty advisor for the SMTA student chapter at Auburn University and a member of the editorial advisory board for SMTA Journal. He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland and the M.B.A. from Northwestern University.
Selected Awards and Honors
- SMTA Founder’s Award for Contributions to Electronics Manufacturing (2024)
- SEMI R&D Achievements Award for contributions to Additive Manufactured Electronics (2023)
- ASME Avram Bar-Cohen Memorial Medal for contributions to Electronics Materials Reliability (2022)
- IEEE Biedenbach Outstanding Engineering Educator Award (2020)
- Inducted as Professional Member of IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu (IEEE-HKN) International Honor Society of IEEE (2019)
- John and Anne MacFarlane Endowed Distinguished Professor (2019)
- Fellow of the NextFlex National Manufacturing Institute on Flexible Electronics (2019)
- Auburn University Research Advisory Board’s Advancement of Research and Scholarship Achievement Award (2018).
- IEEE Sustained Outstanding Technical Contributions Award (2018)
- NSF-IUCRC Alex Schwarzkopf Prize for Technology Innovation (2016)
- Samuel-Ginn College of Engineering Senior Faculty Research Award (2016)
- Wright A. Gardner Award, Alabama Academy of Sciences (2016)
- IEEE-CPMT Exceptional Technical Achievement Award (2014)
- Fellow of the Alabama Academy of Sciences (2014)
- ASME Applied Mechanics Award, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, (2013)
- Recipient of Member of Technical Distinction Award, Surface Mount Technology Association, SMTA (2013).
- Creative Research and Scholarship Award, Auburn University (2013)
- SEC Faculty Achievement Award (2013)
- Fellow of IEEE (2012)
- Member, National Academies Committee, Electronic Vehicle Controls and Unintended Acceleration (2010)
- Fellow of the ASME, (2008).