Diganta Das

Diganta Das (Member, IEEE) received the B.Tech. degree in manufacturing science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, and the Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA. He is currently a Member of the Research Staff at the Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering (CALCE), University of Maryland. His expertise is in reliability, environmental, and operational ratings of electronic parts; uprating; electronic part reprocessing; counterfeit electronics; technology trends in the electronic parts and parts selection; and management methodologies. He performs benchmarking processes and organizations of electronics companies for parts selection and management and reliability practices. He has published more than 60 articles on these subjects and presented his research at international conferences and workshops. His current research interests include counterfeit electronics avoidance and detection, light-emitting-diode failure mechanisms, cooling systems in telecommunications infrastructure and their impact on reliability, and power electronics reliability. He is a member of IMAPS and SMTA. He is an Editorial Board Member for the journal Microelectronics Reliability and Circuit World. He is currently the Vice Chair of the standards group of the IEEE Reliability Society. He had been the Technical Editor for two IEEE standards. He leads the Educational Outreach of CALCE with responsibility to develop interorganizational agreements on joint educational programs, training and internship program, and professional development. He is a Six Sigma Black Belt.