Lallit Anand is the Warren and Towneley Rohsenow Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

He completed his undergraduate studies in mechanical engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 1970.

He joined the faculty in the department of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1982, and has worked there for over thirty six years.

[4] Professor Anand has mentored over 25 Ph.D. students during his years as an educator at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Many of the theories that he has developed in his research have been used in finite-element-based computer programs and are widely implemented for structural and materials-processing design in engineering.