Professor Michael Pecht (55,000+ citations, 105+ H-Index) has a BS in physics, an M.S. in electrical engineering and an M.S. and Ph.D. in engineering mechanics from the University of Wisconsin. He is a professional engineer, an IEEE Fellow, a PHM Society Life Fellow, an ASME Fellow, an ASM Fellow, an SAE Fellow and an IMAPS Fellow. He has served as editor-in-chief for many publications including IEEE Access (six years), IEEE Transactions on Reliability (nine years), and Microelectronics Reliability (16 years). He has also served as editor of Circuit World, and currently is editor-in-chief of Elsevier’s ePrime Journal.

Professor Pecht served on three U.S. National Academy of Science studies, two U.S. Congressional investigations in automotive safety, and as an expert to the U.S. FDA. He is the director of  the Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering (CALCE) at the University of Maryland (UMd), which is funded by over 150 of the world’s leading electronics companies at more than $6M/year. He is a Distinguished University Professor at UMd where he holds a faculty position in both Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mathematics. He has written more than thirty books on product reliability, development, use and supply chain management and a series of books on the electronics industry in China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and India.

Professor Pecht has written over 700 technical articles and holds 11 patents. In 2015 he was awarded the IEEE Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Award for visionary leadership in the development of physics-of-failure-based and prognostics-based approaches to electronics reliability. He was also awarded the Chinese Academy of Sciences President’s International Fellowship. In 2010, he received the IEEE Exceptional Technical Achievement Award for his innovations in the area of prognostics and systems health management. In 2008, he was awarded the highest reliability honor, the IEEE Reliability Society’s Lifetime Achievement Award.