Dr. Michael H. Azarian is a research scientist at the Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering at the University of Maryland. He holds a Masters and Ph.D. in Materials Science from Carnegie Mellon University, and a Bachelors degree in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University. His research is focused on reliability of electronic components and systems, prognostics and health management, and tribology. He holds 5 U.S. patents. Prior to joining CALCE he spent over a dozen years in the disk drive and fiber optics industries. He is co-chair of the Miscellaneous Techniques subcommittee of the SAE G-19A standards committee on detection of counterfeit parts, which is developing AS6171.