Lalita Jategaonkar Jagadeesan is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in the Computing Sciences Research Center at Bell Labs Research, Lucent Technologies. She joined Bell Labs Research in 1993, after completing her PhD in computer science at MIT. In 2000-2001, Lalita was the director of the Software Production Research department in Bell Labs Research, and from 2001-2003 was a director in the Software Technology Center in Bell Labs Advanced Technologies. Lalita's research interests include performance and reliability analysis, automated verification and testing, multi-modal systems, concurrency theory, and software engineering, and she has published papers and holds patents in these areas. Lalita is a senior member of the IEEE.