Dr. Pradeep Rohatgi serves as a UWM Distinguished Professor and Director of the UWM Center for Advanced Materials Manufacture at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Rohatgi is recognized as a world leader in research on solidification processing of metal matrix composites, education of materials professionals, and founder of laboratories for materials research. Rohatgi is a Fellow of TMS and has served on TMS technical committees. He has served as the founder and director of two national laboratories of CSIR in Trivandrum and Bhopal, India, and the UWM Centers for Advanced Materials Manufacture and Composites at UWM.

Rohatgi has co-authored twelve books, over 400 scientific papers, and has 20 U.S. Patents to date. His initial research on Cast Metal Composites has been listed as a major landmark in the 11,000-year history of metal casting. He serves on committees of the governments of the United States and India in the areas of materials to promote collaboration.

Rohatgi is the recipient of numerous awards for research excellence worldwide, a fellow of 10 professional societies, and a member of the National Academy of Inventors.

"I am humbled by my selection to TMS/AIME Honorary Membership. I hope I prove worthy of the recognition. I am very grateful to TMS/AIME to have provided me with the opportunity to learn about Materials, share my own research, and interact with my peers over the last sixty years. I am thankful to my professors, my colleagues, my students, my employers, and funding agencies who helped enhance my understanding of materials science and engineering and helped me contribute to the field."