Amit Lal is an American academic, a Robert M. Scharf 1977 Professor of Engineering at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Cornell University and director of SonicMEMS Laboratory.
He earned a B.S. in electrical engineering from CalTech and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. His doctoral research at the Berkeley Sensors and Actuators Center focused on ultrasonic MEMS. He served as a program manager at DARPA in the Microsystems Technology Office, from 2005 to 2009. At DARPA he managed ten and started six new programs in the area of navigation, low-energy computation, bio-robotics, and atomic microsystems. Before joining the Cornell faculty, he was an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He holds over 30 patents.
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External links https://www.ece.cornell.edu/ https://sonicmems.ece.cornell.edu/