Dr. R. G. Reddy is an ACIPCO Professor and Head of the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama. His academic and research work experiences include: Associate Director of Center for Green Manufacturing at The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama; Professor and Chairman of the Department of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering at University of Nevada, Reno; Visiting Researcher at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley; Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay; and Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago.

Professor Reddy has over 27 years of teaching and research experience in the field of chemical and materials engineering. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from the University of Utah. He has conducted projects involving thermodynamics and kinetics of metallurgical reactions; plasma processing of materials, radioactive materials, molten salts electrolysis and ionic liquids, capacitors and fuel cells.

He has published over 310 research papers and 21 books including one undergraduate student textbook in thermodynamics. He has also presented more than 193 invited lectures and research presentations (52 invited, 17 distinguished /plenary and 5 keynote) in 23 nations (United States, Austria, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Kuwait, Mexico, Netherlands, South Africa, Sweden, Taiwan, Turkey, Ukraine and the United Kingdom). He is the recipient of 4 USA patents.

As an Endowed Chair Professor in the college of engineering and administrator of many research projects (funding from including NSF, DOE, DOD, Industries), Dr. Reddy has advised and worked with over 80 research scholars, students and visiting scientists. For his outstanding contribution to the field, his alma mater the University of Utah recognized him as a John Lewis Distinguished Lecturer of the year.

Dr. Reddy has served in many leadership positions within the College of Engineering, University and other national and international organizations. Chair/member of 25 professional societies committees, 45 technical sessions, and 25 public and universities committees; consultant to more than 20 industries, federal institutions and Universities; taught 12 continuing education/short courses; Editor-in-chief of an International Journal for Manufacturing Science & Production and Associate Editor of Journal of Phase Equilibria and Diffusion. He is serving on several committees at the materials societies including TMS, SME and ASM international. He has successfully organized 22 national and international symposia including most recently the National Science Foundation 2003 NSF Design, Service, and Manufacturing Grantees and Research Conference. He was appointed as the University of Alabama Coordinator for the National Space Science and Technology Center (NSSTC) and NASA, and served as Council Member for the Alabama State Committee for Department of Defense-EPSCoR programs.

Honors and awards include: Who’s Who in Technology Today, National Dean’s list, Phi Kappa Phi, Tau Beta Pi Society. Several of his students received outstanding student /research awards. Dr. Reddy is a Fellow of ASM International. He has received the Service Award and the Best Research Paper Award from Light Metals Division, TMS. Dr. Reddy also received the Research Award from J. Manufacturing Society. He is the recipient of the Eminent Engineer of the Tau Beta Pi Society and also the TMS Extraction & Processing 2002 Distinguished Lecture Award, the 2005 Milton E. Wadsworth Award for Extractive Metallurgy of SME-AIME, the 2006 ATA Award for Excellence in Engineering, ATA, USA, 2006 Henry Krumb Lecturer, SME-AIME, 2006-07, and the Distinguished Member (Fellow) of SME, SME-AIME, USA, 2008.