Jaynarayan Hotchand Lala

Background

Lala, Jaynarayan Hotchand was born on January 12, 1951 in Hyderabad, Sind, Pakistan. Came to the United States, 1971. Son of Hotchand Menghraj and Jamuna (Gandhi) Lala.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Aeronautical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, 1971. Master of Science in aeronautics-Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1973. Doctor of Science in Instrumentation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1976.

Career

Member technical staff Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1976-1983, chief systems architecture section National Aeronautics and Space Administration department, 1983-1985, division leader fault tolerant systems division, 1985-1991, leader advanced computer architectures group, 1991-1993, principal member technical staff, 1993—1999. Advisor United States Navy Combat System Architecture Advisory Panel, 1985-1986. Session chairman 8th Digital Avionics Systems Conference, San Jose, California, 1988, Workshop on Fault Tolerance in Parallel and Distributed Computing, 1987, Conference on Dependable Computing for Critical Applications, 1989.

Member program committee 20th International Symposium on Fault Tolerant Computing, 1990, 21st International Symposium, 1991, technical program chairman 22nd International Symposium, 1992. Member program committee 2nd Conference on Dependable Computing for Critical Applications, Tucson, 1991, program committee 3d Conference, Sicily, Italy, 1992, program committee International Conference on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection, Zurich, Switzerland, 2002, program committee International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, San Francisco, 2003, Florence, Italy, 2004. Member battle management panel Strategic Defense Initiative, 1992.

Technical director Bosnia Command and Control Augmentation Program, 1996. Chief architect National Aeronautics and Space Administration X-38 Crew Return Vehicle Avionics and Flight Critical Computers, 1998-1999. Program manager Intrusion Tolerant Systems Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency United States Department Defense, 1999-2003.

Engineering fellow Raytheon Company, 2003-2006, senior engineering fellow, since 2007. Government advisor to 2000 Defense Science board on Defensive Information Operations, general chair International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, Washington, 2002. Delegate on bilateral agreements countering cyber terrorism India, United States Government, New Delhi, India, 2002.

Vice-chairman Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Technology Committee Fault Tolerant Computing, 2003-2004, chairman 2005-2006. Co-chair advisory board National Science Foundation Trust Center, University California Berkeley, since 2005.

Achievements

• Jaynarayan Hotchand Lala has been listed as a noteworthy computer engineer by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Fellow American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (associate, chairman digital avionics technical subcommittee 1987-1991), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Member International Federation Information Processing (working group on dependable computing and fault tolerance since 1988), Indian Institute of Technology Society New England (vice president 1995-1997).

Interests

• Avocations: flying, chess, tennis, piano.

Connections

Married Michele Simone Breton, September 2, 1977.

Father:

Hotchand Menghraj Lala

Mother:

Jamuna (Gandhi) Lala

Spouse:

Michele Simone Breton