A Professor and Chair of Industrial and Systems Engineering Department at North Carolina A&T State University Greensboro. He received his PhD degree in Industrial Engineering from Wayne State University, MS in Industrial Engineering and BS in Mechanical Engineering both from India. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE). He also served as Professor and Duin Endowed Fellow in the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at North Dakota State University (NDSU)—Fargo. Dr. Yadav has also served as the Interim Chair of IME Department at NDSU for three years. He is the founding Director of the Center for Quality, Reliability, and Maintainability Engineering (CQRME), he established with the support of 10-member companies. Prior to his tenure at NDSU, Dr. Yadav spent almost four years at Ford Motor Company, Dearborn working as a Reliability Engineer in Ford Product Development Center (FPDC) and a faculty member at MNIT Jaipur (India). ​