Dr. Suprasad V. Amari
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Dr. Suprasad V. Amari
E-mail: suprasad.amari@gmail.com
Suprasad V. Amari is a Senior Principal Reliability Engineer at BAE Systems, where he serves as software reliability subject matter expert. He received his B.Tech degree in mechanical engineering from Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati, India, in 1990. He was awarded the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Reliability Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, in 1992 and 1998, respectively. Prior to joining BAE Systems, Dr. Amari served about 14 years as a Technical Fellow at Parametric Technology Corporation, where he led the design and development of advanced modeling features and computational algorithms for Windchill Quality Solutions (formerly Relex) Software Product Suite. He also worked at Relyence Corporation as a product manager and reliability subject matter expert. From 1996 to 2001, Dr. Amari worked at Tata Consultancy Services, where he served as technical lead of the Data Mining and Machine Learning group. His research interests include hardware and software reliability, fault-tolerant computing, dynamic dependability models, and condition-based maintenance. He has authored or coauthored 6 book chapters in Springer Handbooks and over 80 research papers published in reputable international journals and conference proceedings. He coauthored a book on Binary Decision Diagrams and Extensions for System Reliability Analysis. He was General Chair of the 2017 Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium (RAMS 2017) and now serves as an SAE Representative on the RAMS Board. He received the 2009 Stan Oftshun Award from the Society of Reliability Engineers (SRE), the 2009 William A.J. Golomski Award from the Institute of Industrial Engineers, and the 2013 RAMS Best Paper award from ASQ Reliability Division. He is a senior member of ASQ, IEEE, and IISE. He is a member of ACM, ISSS, SAE International and SRE. He is an ASQ-certified Reliability Engineer.