March 10, 2025
Exponent chief technical officer and principal engineer honored for accomplishments in transportation safety
Exponent Principal Engineer & Chief Technical Officer Subbaiah Malladi, Ph.D., P.E., has been elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE) for his work in transportation safety. Joining a class of 128 new members and 28 international NAE members, he is being honored "for contributions to critical national-transportation-safety-related investigations and safety regulation enforcement."
Dr. Malladi earned his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology, specializing in fluid mechanics and heat transfer. Over the past 40 years at Exponent, he has been actively involved in finding solutions for a wide range of technical problems utilizing Exponent's multidisciplinary expertise. These include:
- Transportation: Air bag controls and inflators, automotive crash recorders, unintended accelerations, tire tread separations, distracted drivers, hybrid and electric vehicles, autonomous vehicles, and vehicle thermal events
- Off-Road Vehicles: Control systems and thermal events
- Health: Environmental dispersion of pesticides, dermal and lung models, cochlear implants, and catheters
- Consumer Products: Home appliances, water heaters, and windows
- Environmental: Oil well blowouts, tailings dams, and ground water contamination
- Major Fires: Cargo ships and oil platforms
"Throughout my career, I have been motivated to help solve technical problems with safety implications for society."
— Subbaiah Malladi, Ph.D., P.E., Chief Technical Officer and Principal Engineer
"Dr. Malladi's election to the NAE's mechanical engineering section is not only a recognition of his professional accomplishments and impact during his 40-plus year career at the firm, but also serves to underscore Exponent's core values and commitments to engineering excellence, objectivity, and the advancement of science," said Exponent President & Chief Executive Officer Catherine Corrigan, Ph.D.
As a member of the NAE, Dr. Malladi will be joining Dr. Corrigan and several other Exponent colleagues, including Senior Fellow and Principal Scientist Ronald Latanision, Ph.D.; Group Vice President and Principal Engineer Maureen Reitman, Sc.D., P.E., NAE, FSPE; and Principal Engineer and Corporate Vice President Robert Caligiuri, Ph.D., P.E., NAE, FASM.
The NAE's public announcement can be found here.
About the National Academy of Engineering
The NAE is one of three national academies — along with the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine — striving to advance the nation's well-being by promoting a vibrant engineering profession and by marshalling the expertise and insight of eminent engineers to advise the federal government on engineering and technology matters.
The organization's more than 2,000 national and international peer-elected members come from business, academia, and government and provide leadership and expertise for projects focusing on relationships between engineering, technology, and quality of life.
