Lallit Anand

Lallit Anand is the Warren and Towneley Rohsenow Professor ofMechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).His research focuses on solid mechanics and large deformationplasticity theory. He has received numerous awards and accolades for his significant contributions to the field ofapplied mechanics andmechanical engineering.

Lallit Anand was born inDelhi, India on June 29, 1948.He completed his undergraduate studies inMechanical Engineering at theIndian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 1970. He went on to earn his doctorate degree fromBrown University in 1975. That yearhe started work as a Research Scientist at theUnited States Steel Corporation's Mechanical Sciences Division of the Fundamental Research Laboratory,and was later promoted to Senior Research Scientist. He served in that position until 1981. He joined the faculty in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1982,and has workedthere for over thirty six years. From 2008 to 2013, he served as the Head of the Area for Mechanics. He currently holds the title of Warren and Towneley Rohsenow Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Professor Anand has mentoredover 25 Ph.D. students during his years as an educator at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was electedto the National Academy of Engineering in 2018.

In addition to his work at the university, he has served as the Program Director for the Mechanics of Materials Program [1], as well as the Manufacturing Processes Program in the Engineering Directorate of theNational Science Foundation from 1989 to 1991.Further, from 1994 to 1999 he was a member of the Executive Committee of theApplied Mechanics Division [2] of theAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers, and served as the chair of the Applied Mechanics Division in 1999.

In his research, Anand focuses on solid mechanics,continuum mechanics, and plasticity.Many of the theories that he has developed in his research have been used in finite-element-based computer programs and are widely implemented for structural and materials-processing design in engineering.

Anand has published over 130 peer-reviewed research papers in academic journals. He hasalso coauthored a textbook with Morton Gurtin and Eliot Fried, titled The Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Continua published by Cambridge University Press in 2010, which is frequently used in engineering courses focusing oncontinuum mechanics.

• 1992: Eric Reissner Medal, 1992 from the International Society for Computational Engineering & Sciences.

• 2003: Fellow of theAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers [3], 2003.

• 2007: Khan International Plasticity Medal, 2007 from the International Journal of Plasticity [4] for outstanding life-long contributions to the field of Plasticity.

• 2011:Distinguished Alumnus Award from theIndian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.

• 2014:Symposium Honoring Professor Lallit Anand on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday at the 17th U. S. National Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics [5] at Michigan State University.

• 2014:Daniel C. Drucker Medal from theASME.

• 2017: J. P. Den Hartog Distinguished Educator Award for excellence in teaching Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

• 2018: William Prager Medal from the Society of Engineering Science, for outstanding research contributions in Solid Mechanics.

• 2018: Brown Engineering Alumni Medal from Brown University for his distinguished career and contributions to the field of engineering research.

• 2018:Elected to theNational Academy of Engineering.

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