Satish S. Udpa serves as an Interim President Emeritus and University Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Michigan State University (MSU). Prior to this, he served in many academic and administrative capacities at MSU including Interim President, Executive Vice President for Administration, Dean of the College of Engineering, Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and University Distinguished Professor. He also served as the President of the Michigan State University Foundation. Dr. Udpa was the Whitney Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University and a faculty member at Colorado State University before joining Michigan State University in 2001.

Udpa’s research interests span the broad area of sensing and measurement. He has focused his energies on developing a variety of sensors for nondestructive evaluation (NDE) applications together with several numerical tools for developing them and analyzing data generated by such sensors. He has published extensively, holds several patents, and was the technical editor of the Electromagnetic Nondestructive Testing Handbook, published by the American Society for Nondestructive Testing. He served as the editor of the IEEE Transactions on Magnetics and the regional editor of the International Journal of Applied Electromagnetics and Mechanics until recently.

He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT), the Indian Society of Nondestructive Testing and the Engineering Society of Detroit. He is also a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. He currently serves as a member of Michigan Governor’s Council on Future Mobility and Electrification and is a member of the Board of Directors of the American Society for Nondestructive Testing.