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Dr. Amit LalProgram Manager

Dr. Amit Lal is the Program Manager of the MEMS Exchange (MX), Harsh Environment Robust Micromechanical Technology (HERMIT), Chip-Scale Atomic Clocks (CSAC), Navigation Grade Integrated Micro Gyroscopes (NGIMG), and Hybrid Insect MEMS (HI-MEMS) programs in the Microsystems Technology Office of DARPA. Dr. Lal received his B.S. from California Institute of Technology in Electrical Engineering in 1990. Dr. Lal received his Ph.D. degree from University of California at Berkeley in 1996 in Electrical and Computer Engineering. In 1997 he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Wisconsin at Madison. In 2001 he joined the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Department of Biomedical Engineering where he is on leave from as an Associate Professor. At Cornell University he leads the SonicMEMS Laboratory focus where the research includes development and applications of high-intensity silicon based ultrasonic actuators, linear and nonlinear ultrasonics, microfluidics, the use of radioactive thin films to enable autonomous microsystems, and piezoelectric microactuators. He has more than 80 publications, and holds 13 patents in the microelectromechanical systems and nanotechnology. His students have received several best paper awards in the area of ultrasonics. He serves on ADCOM of the IEEE Ultrasonics Frequency and Frequency Control Society.