Alok Sinha is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Pennsylvania State University. He also has served as Visiting Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University, California. His areas of teaching and research include vibration, control systems, jet engines, robotics, neural networks, and nanotechnology. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and an Associate Fellow of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He has received a NASA Certificate of Recognition for Significant Contribution to the Space Shuttle Microgravity Mission. Sinha is the author of Linear Systems: Optimal and Robust Control (2007) and Vibration of Mechanical Systems (2010). He has also served as an Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control, the ASME Journal of Turbomachinery, and the AIAA Journal.