Organizing Committee
| Chairman | Dr. B Venkatraman |
| Convener | Shri Bikash Ghose |
| International Relationship Committee | Prof. Krishnan Balasubramaniam |
| Industry Relationship Committee | Shri Diwakar D Joshi Shri Hemant Kumar |
| Technical Committee (Scientific) | Mr V Manoharan Dr Ravibabu Mulaveesala |
| Technical Committee (Industrial) | Shri Umakanthan Anand Shri Tushar Mukherjee |
| Exhibition Committee | Shri Samir Choksi Shri Vivek Rajamani Shri Shashidhar Pallakki |
| Marketing & Publicity Committee | Shri Mukesh Arora |
| Finance Committee | Shri Kalesh Nerurkar |
| Pre-Conf Tutorial Committee | Dr Deepesh Vimalan |
Mr John Iman
John Iman has 21+ Years in Global NDT & X-ray and is the president of ASNT. He is also the Vice President Global Sales at VMI, a Varex Imaging Company. He is a API Committee Member, Past NDTMA Chairman and AWS Member. Prior to VMI, john has worked for General Electric, Acuren Inspection and North Star Imaging
Dr S. K. Jha
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Dr. Tessy Thomas, Distinguished Scientist, has taken over as Director General (Aeronautical Systems) w.e.f 01-Jun-2018. She obtained her B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from Calicut University, ME in Guided Missiles from Institute of Armament Technology (now Defence Institute of Advanced Technology), Pune and PhD in Missile Guidance from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU), Hyderabad. She obtained MBA in Operations Management from Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi.
Dr. Tessy Thomas Joined IAT, Pune as a faculty member in Guided Missiles in the year 1986. She joined DRDL,Hyderabad in 1988. She was associated with Agni Programme right from its developmental flights. She has designed the guidance scheme for long range missile systems which is used in all Agni missiles. An energy management guidance scheme was designed and developed for the first time in the country for an all – solid propelled long range systems for which she was conferred with Agni self reliance award in the year 2001. She has contributed in various fields such as Guidance, Control, Inertial Navigation, Trajectory Simulation and Mission Design. She lead a major project AGNI-4 as Project Director, for a state-of-art system with many new technologies for the first time and successfully flight tested and proven. She was also Project Director (Mission) for the long range AGNI-5 system, which was successfully flight tested and proven. As Director, Advanced Systems Laboratory, DRDO, she held multi-dimensional roles and responsibilities and lead the development of strategic missile system from 2014 to 2018.
Dr. Tessy Thomas is the recipient of many prestigious awards including Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award for Excellence in Public Administration Academics and Management-2012; DRDO Agni Award for Excellence in Self-Reliance – 2001; DRDO Award for Path breaking Research/Outstanding Technology Development-2007; DRDO Scientist of the Year Award-2008; DRDO Performance Excellence Award for Agni-4 in 2011; DRDO Performance Excellence Award for Agni-5 in 2012; Suman Sharma Award by The Institution of Engineers (India), National Design and Research Forum for Engineering Design in 2009; Madam Marie Curie Mahila Vijnana Puraskar-2012; Dr. Y. Nayudamma Memorial Award for the Year 2014 for Outstanding Contributions in the field Missile Technology, “Bharat Ratna Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya Award-2016” towards outstanding contributions in the field of Engineering towards design, development and realization of indigenous missile systems by The Institution of Engineers (India), Telangana State Centre, Hyderabad, “Distinguished Woman Scientist Award” in 2016 for her contributions in the field of Missile Technologyby Andhra Pradesh Science Congress, Andhra Pradesh Academy of Sciences.
Honoris Causa: -
• Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa) from IIT, Kanpur in 2019.
• Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa) from Central University of Karnataka, Kalaburagi in 2018.
• Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa) from Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Agra in 2017.
• Doctor of Literature (Honoris Causa) from ITM University, Gwalior in 2016.
• Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa) from Sri Padmavati Mahila Vishwavidyalaya University, Tirupathi in 2015.
• Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa) from Hindustan University, Chennai in 2014.
• Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa) from Mangalayatan University, Aligarh in 2012.
• Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa) in Space Science from Kalyani University, West Bengal in 2012.
Dr S. K. Jha
Dr S. K. Jha is Chairman & Managing Director of MIDHANI. Before joining MIDHANI he has worked in Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) for more than 27 years & involved in technology development for processing of nuclear materials for India’s Nuclear Power program and strategic materials used in Missile, Space and Defense projects. He joined DAE after completing one-year training in Nuclear science and engineering from prestigious training school of Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC), Bombay.
In Atomic Energy he made number of technological innovations in processing of nuclear materials of different grades such as ‘difficult to hot work’ Alloy 718, Titan31, Titan-24, Titan44, Alloy 690 and Alloy 800H. He has carried out Simulation and modeling of two dissimilar metals used for development of fusion technology. He has also developed Titanium half alloy and full alloy tube in different sizes for Light Combat Aircraft and PSLV applications. He has invented a process to develop unique properties in pressure tube; a lifetime component for nuclear power reactors which has been used in India’s indigenously designed 700 MWe PHWRs.
In May 2020, when the entire world was going through a deep crisis, Dr. Jha took charge of MIDHANI Chairman & Managing Director. Due to his excellent leadership skills and strategic planning, MIDHANI achieved a remarkable all-round growth during FY 2020-21. Under his able stewardship, MIDHANI achieved its highest-ever turnover of Rs. 813 Cr. and highest-ever profit of Rs. 226 Cr. Also, MIDHANI achieved highest-ever export-turnover of Rs. 19 Cr. in FY 2020-21 in the midst of pandemic, which had disrupted entire supply-chain. Not only he has developed business in new areas for company but also made significant contributions in projects, which had been going since long. Under his leadership, MIDHANI has made tremendous progress in both Technological and commercial areas.
He is also a Life member of Indian institute of Metals, Indian Nuclear Society, ISNT and aeronautical Society of India. He has also co-authored report on materials for fast breeder reactor for IAEA (Vienna). He has also published more than 35 articles in international journals. He has completed his PhD in engineering sciences from Homi Bhabha National institute (HBNI), BARC.
He is recipient of many awards and accolades. The most notable amongst them being, award for Excellence in Science technology for the year 2006 from Department of Atomic Energy (DAE). He has also received Group award from DAE five times for development of modified route for pressure tube, Development of Niobium alloys, Revamping of extrusion press, extrusion of ODS steel for FBRs application. Steam generator tubes for 700 MWe PHWRs. A list of his individual and group awards are given below:
Awards / Honours Received
1. Received award for Excellence in Science technology for the year 2006 from DAE
2. Received four times DAE Group awards for number of technological developments such as modified route for pressure tube, Development of Niobium alloys, revamping of extrusion press and extrusion of ODS steel for FBRs applications.
3. Sustainable & Balanced Business Performance Award to MIDHANI by SKOCH BSE Awards (2016).
4. Excellency Award to MIDHANI by Institute of Economic Studies (2016).
5. Corporate Vigilance Excellence Award for the year 2016-17 under “Metallurgy Sector” was conferred on MIDHANI in recognition of exemplary work done in the area of preventive vigilance.
6. MIDHANI was Conferred “GOLD Award” for “Corporate Excellence” by Skoch group (Highest Independent Honour in India) for the project “Modernization and Diversification of Products & Processes at MIDHANI”.
7. 6th Governance Now PSU Award in Non-Financial Category for ‘HR Excellence (Value Growth)’ was bestowed upon MIDHANI in Jan 2019 at New Delhi.
8. MIDHANI was awarded India’ Most Trusted Company 2019 by IBC Media USA in August 2019 at New Delhi.
9. MIDHANI was bestowed with FTCCI award under two categories; (1) Excellence in Industrial Productivity (2) Excellence in Research & Development in Jan 2021 at Hyderabad.
10. Dr S.K Jha, CMD, was conferred with IIM TATA Gold Medal by the Indian Institute of Metals on the occasion of 58th National Metallurgist Day and 74th Annual Technical Meeting 2020 in Feb 2021
11. MIDHANI received SKOCH Order of Merit and SKOCH Gold Award for “Modernization and Diversification of Product & Process at MIDHANI” under “Corporate Excellence” category during 71st SKOCH Summit in Feb 2021
12. Certificate of commitment was presented to MIDHANI for securing ‘4-star rating’ for commitment to EHS practice in the CII-SR-EHS Excellence awards in Mar 2021
13. MIDHANI conferred with the “Telangana State Intellectual Property Award” for the Best IP Portfolio in the PSU category by CII and Telangana State Global Linker in Apr 2021.
Prof X Maldague
Prof X Maldague
Electrical & Computing Engineering Department
Sciences & Engineering Faculty
University Laval, Quebec, Canada
Short bio:
Xavier Maldague, P. Eng., Ph. D., is full professor at the Department of Electrical and Computing Engineering of University Laval, Quebec City, Canada. He has trained over 50 graduate students (M.Sc. and Ph.D.). His research interests are in infrared thermography, NonDestructive Evaluation (NDE) techniques and vision systems for industrial inspection. He holds a Canada Research Chair in infrared vision. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Indian Society of Nondestructive Test-ing, a Fellow of the Canadian Engineering Institute, of the Canadian Institute for NonDestructive Evaluation, of the American Society of NonDestructive Testing, and from the Alexander von Humbolt Foundation (Germany). In 2019 he was bestowed an Doctor Honoris Causa in Infrared Thermography from University of Antwerp (Belgium).
Title of the talk is:
Dynamic Thermography Inspection of Structures using a Drone Based Approach: Review and Case studies
Short abstract:
In this talk the basic principles of dynamic thermography inspection of structures using drone will be discussed including benefits, challenges, case studies.
Case of aircrafts: Recent aircrafts incorporate and high content of composite materials such as Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic (CFRP) used in wings, fuselage, etc.
Such material require proper inspection to detect and assess severity of embedded defects present at manufacturing stages such as porosities and in-service defects (delaminations and disbonds)..
Since surfaces to inspect are large and time for inspection should be limited as much as possible, quick inspection schemes are preferred.
Other applications: Many other fields could benefit from drone inspection, for instance civil engineering in the case of large structures sometimes difficult and dangerous to reach.
In this talk, we present the well-known concepts of infrared thermography deployed in a dynamic scheme. Interestingly, adding visible channel could sometimes benefit the inspection with proper data fusion.
Drone inspection concepts are also discussed along approaches for thermogram processing based on deep learning.
Finally, a flying demonstrator is shown as well.
Shant Kenderian
Shant Kenderian, PhD
Fellow of the American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT)
Materials Processing Department Director, The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA
Received PhD degree in Materials Science and Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University in 2002. His studies were focused on advanced NDT methods for materials characterization and resulted in two US patents on using a laser-air hybrid ultrasonic technique for railroad inspection applications. He also holds a European patent in this field.
In the aftermath of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, Dr. Kenderian joined the NASA Super Problem Resolution Team (SPRT), later became the NASA Engineering and Safety Center (NESC). During the first two years, the SPRT engaged in an investigation to develop inspection methods for the External Tank (ET) Sprayed On Foam Insulation (SOFI) and a number of other tasks, which ultimately lead to the return to flight of the grounded shuttle program. In 2004, he held a Sr. Engineer position with Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and in 2005 he became a Member of the Technical Staff (MTS) with The Aerospace Corporation, where he is currently the Director for the Materials Processing Department. As a Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC), The Aerospace Corporation is tasked to support the US Air Force space program, now the Space Force. The Materials Physics and NDE laboratory, under the Materials Processing Department, is equipped with a wide range of advanced NDT techniques and staffed with a strong team of experts. The team is routinely tasked with challenging problems, at times are deemed unsolvable, with a remarkable record of success.
Dr. Kenderian served six years on the board of directors of ASNT. He chaired several of ASNT committees, the Research Council, and a number of US and international symposia. He has been the recipient of corporate awards by The Aerospace Corporation, Lockheed Martin, and NASA. He is also the recipient of the ASNT Fellowship, Outstanding Paper, Research Council Innovation, Fellow, Mentoring, and Mehl Honor Lecture Awards.
Shant Kenderian, PE, PhD
Manager, Materials Physics & NDE Section
Materials Processing and Evaluation Department
The Aerospace Corporation, M2/248
2350 E. El Segundo Blvd.
El Segundo, CA 90245
e-mail: shant@aero.org
Telephone: (310) 336-0757
Arungalai Anbarasu
Arungalai Anbarasu is the Chief Technology & Strategy Officer at Waygate Technologies, a Baker Hughes Company driving strategy & innovation for the company. In addition to pushing the technology & business models boundaries on Inspection solutions, Aru and her team are also focused on the digital transformation of Waygate Technologies and spearheads Waygate Technologies’ evolution into a Digital Inspection Solutions provider, taking customers from inspections to insights and from insights to innovations. Prior to her current role, Aru was the General Manager for Industrial X-ray & CT solutions business at Waygate Technologies. She also spent over a decade in GE in multiple global impactful roles in business divisions such as Global Research Centre, Oil & Gas, Power Conversion, Healthcare and Renewables across the world. She is an official member of Forbes Technology Council and an influential thought leader. She is passionate about encouraging Women in STEM fields and continues to pursue avenues to support this topic. She was Recognized as Top 100 Technology Leaders by Technology Magazine, 50 Most Powerful Women in Technology by National Diversity Council and International Achievers’ Award, 2021 by Indian Achievers Award. Aru currently resides in Germany with her husband Divyang and daughter Ada.
Dr Chiraz Ennaceur
Dr Chiraz Ennaceur is the CEO and co-founder of CorrosionRADAR Ltd (www.corrosionradar.com), one of the fastest growing companies in the UK in the space of predictive corrosion monitoring. CorrosionRADAR is an important enabler for Industry 4.0 and assets digitalisation allowing many sectors such as Oil & Gas and energy to have safer and more sustainable operations.
Dr. Kavitha Arunachalam ,IIT Madras
Dr. Kavitha Arunachalam received her Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University (1994-1998), India and Doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering from Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA (2002-2007). She was a post-doctoral research associate in the Hyperthermia Physics Division, Department of Radiation Oncology, Duke University Medical Center, USA from 2007-2010. She is a faculty in the Department of Engineering Design, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras since June 2010. Her research interests are hyperthermia physics, medical microwave radiometry, EM material measurements and non-destructive testing.
M.Menaka
M.Menaka, a postgraduate in physics and has over 19 years of experience in the field of NDE for materials characterization. She has specialized in the areas of thermal imaging, image processing and Digital Radiography. She is presently Heading Radiation Application and Metrology Section at Radiological Safety Division of the Indira Gandhi Centre for Centre Research, Kalpakkam.
Her field of interests are Material Characterisation using thermal NDE and Thermal imaging as diagnostic tool in healthcare. She is an American Society for NDT certified Level – III in Infrared Thermal Testing. She has more than 50 publications in international and national journals and 45 publications in conferences. She has more than 319 citations for her credit. She has also contributed to the development of the first Indian standard on Infrared Thermal Testing which has been accepted by International Standard Organisation and is now under wide circulation.
She has won the best paper awards during the IIM NMD-ATM 2005 and NDE 2007. She has also won the best paper award in the R&D Category for the paper published in Journal of NDE. She is a receipient of the Group Achievement Award of Department Atomic Energy- for the year 2009. She has guided more than 10 engineering and science post graduate students in their projects.
She has been an active member of ISNT Kalpakkam Chapter for over 10 years and presently is the Joint Secretary of ISNT Kalpakkam Chapter and was a member of the technical committee of 14th APCNDT. She is a member of the QIRT Asia 2015 Steering Committee and has been a regular faculty for the Level – II and Level – III courses that have been conducted by ISNT Kalpakkam. She is one of the Board of Directors of American Society for Non-destructive Testing - India Section.
Dr. Aparna C. Sheila Vadde
Dr. Aparna C. Sheila-Vadde is a Senior Engineer at the NDE Lab in GE Research, Bangalore. She has been with GE Research for more than 15 years and has worked on design and characterization of different electromagnetic sensors for inspection and monitoring applications in Aviation, Renewables and Oil and Gas Sectors. Prior to GE, Aparna worked at Western Digital Corp and Read-Rite, in Fremont, CA, USA for 3.5 years on GMR sensor design for hard-drives. Aparna has a Ph.D from Carnegie Mellon University, USA, MS from Indian Institute of Science and B.Tech from College of Engineering, Trivandrum, all in ECE.
Prof. Krishnan Balasubramaniam,IIT Madras
Prof. Krishnan Balasubramaniam has been involved in the field of Non-destructive evaluation for more than Thirty years with applications in the fields of maintenance, quality assurance, manufacturing and design. His areas of research interests include Nondestructive evaluation, in-process monitoring, structural health monitoring, and applied data analysis. He is currently a Chair Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Dean for Industrial Consultancy and Sponsored Research at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, and also serves as the Head of the Centre for Nondestructive Evaluation which he founded in 2001.
He received his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Madras (Regional Engineering College, Tiruchirapalli, India) in 1984. He then graduated from Drexel University with a M.S. degree in 1986 and a Ph.D. in the year 1989. Before joining IIT Madras in 2000, he was employed at Mississippi State University. He has over 400 technical publications (including 200 refereed journal papers), 16 patents filings and has directed 22 PHD student dissertations and 46 MS student theses.
In recognition for his outstanding contributions to research in the field of Nondestructive Evaluation, he was conferred with the ROY SHARPE PRIZE by the British Institute for NDT for the year 2012. He was also awarded the ISTEM Entrepreneurial Faculty Member Award for his entrepreneurial activities by Auburn University, USA in 2011 and the NATIONAL NDT AWARD 2010 by the Indian Society for NDT. He also was conferred the DRDO Academy Excellence Award for 2015. He has also been bestowed with the prestigious ABDUL KALAM National Technology Innovation Fellowship in 2018.
He has been instrumental in the incubation of several startups including Dhvani Research, Playns Technologies, Detect Technologies, Maximl Labs, Trotix Robotics, HyperVerge, and OP Tech and has jointly developed several new products through these companies.
He currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal for Nondestructive Evaluation (ISNT) and as the South-east Asia Editor for the Journal of Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation (Taylor and Francis). He also serves as the Associate Editor of Ultrasonics (Elsevier) and serves in the editorial board of the Journal of Structural Longevity (Techscience). He also is a board member of the World Federation of NDE Centers and the QNDE Scientific Advisor Committee.
He is a Life Fellow of the Academia NDT International, Life Fellow of the Indian Society of Nondestructive Testing (ISNT) and a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineers.
Mr. Diwakar D. Joshi, Insight Quality Services
Qualifications and Accreditations:
• B. E. Mechanical
• ASNT Level III (RT, PT, UT, MT, ET, LT, VT) – Certificate No. 60893
• ISO 9712 Level 3 (RT, PT, UT, MT)
• Senior Certified Welding Inspector (AWS)
• ISO 9000 Lead Assessor
• API 510 Pressure Vessel Inspector
• API 653 Aboveground storage Tank Inspector
• API 570 Authorized Piping Inspector
• API 571, API 577 & API 580 Authorized Inspector
• API 936 Refractory Practitioner
• API Tank Entry Supervisor
• API Source Inspector – Fixed Equipment
• API 1169 Pipeline Construction Inspector
Mr. Diwakar Joshi, [Director, Insight Quality Services (working in the field of Training, Consultancy, Inspection and NDT services) is basically a mechanical engineer having more than 45 years’ experience in QA/QC and NDT field. He has worked with prestigious organizations like Walchandnagar Industries Ltd., Alfa Laval India Ltd., PT. Puspetindo, Indonesia and PT. Balcke-Durr Indonesia.
He is a member of many institutes, like BINDT, AWS, ASNT, ASM, SWS, ISNT and NCB. He has many national and international papers to his credit and is currently the President Elect of Indian Society for Non-Destructive Testing (ISNT). Mr. Joshi is an approved member of ICNDT – WG1, (International Committee for Non-Destructive Testing – Working Group – 1) representing ISNT (Indian Society for Non-Destructive Testing) for Qualification and Certification.
He has hands-on Experience of Quality Control and Quality Assurance of Pressure Vessels and Heat Exchangers, ASME U, U2 and N (Nuclear) Stamp Vessels, in-service inspection of the refinery equipments, and is NDT Level III for reputed fabrication companies. He has also worked for shutdown inspection in Saudi Arabia and off-shore platform inspection in Middle East.
Has conducted training courses in India, Singapore, Bangkok (Thailand), Indonesia, Qatar, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Trinidad and Tobago, UAE etc. and has trained and certified more than 10000 QA/QC Personnel, with over a 1000 training programs in various disciplines to his credit.
Presently, apart from Consultancy, Mr. Joshi is devoting major time in Training in the areas like API 510 / 653 / 570 / 580 / SIFE/ 577 / exams, AWS (CWI) exams, ASNT Level III exams, Train the Trainers and ASME Code Specific programs.
The following API Courses (more than 100 programs) are conducted for Qatar Petroleum, Aramco, Bapco, Reliance, IOCL and other refineries and also in Insight Quality Services in Pune and Chennai:
1) API 510 - Qatar Petroleum, Bapco, IOCL, Reliance, IQS
2) API 570 - Qatar Petroleum, Bapco, IOCL, Reliance, IQS
3) API 653 - Qatar Petroleum, Bapco, IOCL, Reliance, IQS, Aramco, Oman PDO
4) API 580 - Qatar Petroleum, IQS
5) API 571 - IQS, IGF, ADNOC
6) API 577 - IQS, IGF
7) API SIFE - IQS, IGF, M/s Stork (Trinidad and Tobago), OMIFCO (Oman)
8) Welding Inspection, QA/QC and Codes - Qatargas Operating Company Limited, Qatar
9) ASNT L-III Preparatory Training Programs - Indonesia, Thailand, UAE, Brunei, IQS, India
Insight Quality Services is accredited by NCB-ISNT, and has worked for almost all multinationals and corporate houses in India during its 25 years’ existence.
V. Manoharan, GE Global Research, Bengaluru
V.Manoharan is currently working as a Senior Scientist at GE Global Research center Bangalore since 2001. Prior to join GE, He worked as scientific officer at Advanced Fuel Fabrication Facility, Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC) and Division of Post Irradiation Examination and NDT development, Indira Gandhi Center for atomic research for 13 years. He has more than 30 years of experience in the field of Research in NDE.
He received National NDT award from Indian Society for Non-Destructive Testing for his contribution in NDE research.
He has completed his post graduate diploma in radiological physics from Bhabha Atomic research center and obtained Level-III certification in radiography, IR, UT, LPT and ECT from American Society for Nondestructive testing. His area of interest is Digital x-ray imaging, Positron annihilation spectroscopy, quantitative radiography Model based PoD , Applications of Micro and Nano x-ray computed tomography , Pipeline and pressure vessels integrity and Training in NDE.
He has more than 15 issued patents & patents applications and 30 technical publications in national and international journals & conferences
Dr. (Ms.) Sarmishtha Palit Sagar, NML-CSIR, Jamshedpur
Dr. (Ms.) Sarmishtha Palit Sagar, has been involved in the field of Non-destructive evaluation for more than 20 years and is currently a Senior Principal Scientist and serves as the Head of the NDE & magnetic materials (MM) group at CSIR-National Metallurgical Laboratory, Jamshedpur. She has worked as a visiting Scientist at Fraunhofer Institute for Non-destructive Testing, Saarbreucken, Germany from 2000-2002 and researched on guided wave ultrasound under Prof J L Rose at Pennsylvania State University, USA in 2009. She has been elected as a member of the editorial board of the Korean Journal of NDE, selected as a member of the Technical committee of many international conferences like QIRT, APCNDT and World Conference on NDT.
She has been awarded National NDT Award in “R&D” in the year 2005 and for “International Recognition” in 2017 by Indian Society for NDT. Institute of Engineers conferred on her the “Lady Engineer” award in the year 2012, Tata Innovista Regional Award in 2015 by Tata Groups. CSIR, India has awarded her Raman Research Fellowship award in 2008 to work at Pennsylvania State University.
She was invited as one of the key note speakers by Prof Jhang of Hanyang University, South Korea for the workshop on “Recent and future trends of non-linear ultrasonic”.
She is having 58 Publications in SCI and Non-SCI journals, 07 Patents and 05 copyrights in her credit. She has guided several Masters Students. Her experience in guiding research in NDE has seen her appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of the prestigious European Project NOMAD under HORIZON 2020 in which 6 European Countries are involved.
Dr. Debasish Mishra, GE Global Research
Debasish Mishra obtained Ph.D from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 1998. He worked in the area of Laser Interferometric Tomography application to experimental heat transfer. He continued his research on various optical techniques for application to crystal growth research and structural engineering at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
He was a recipient of the prestigious Dr. K.S. Krishnan fellowship of the Department of Atomic Energy, Govt. of India from 1996 to 1998. He was also a recipient of the young scientist award from the Indian Science Congress Association in 1998.
Debasish joined General Electric Research and Development Center in 2003. He has been since then engaged with the digital radiography, optical and ultrasound inspection team working in a variety of NDT projects for GE businesses.
He has published more than 50 research papers in various international and national journals and conferences and 16 patent applications. Debasish also worked as a member of the ASTM E07 committee where he helps developing industrial radiography standards for inspection.
Dr. Prabhu Rajagopal, IIT Madras
A Dual Degree graduate from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IITM - 2003, ME), Prabhu Rajagopal obtained his PhD in Ultrasonic Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE) from Imperial College London, UK in 2007, where he also later had a 3-year stint as a Rolls-Royce funded Postdoc. Joining the Centre for NDE (CNDE) at the Machine Design Section of the Mechanical Engineering Department at IITM in December 2010, Dr. Rajagopal was promoted as full Professor in March 2019.
His research interests are in the inspection of structures under challenging conditions using robotic and waveguide sensing solutions and metamaterials, with over 20 industry/agency projects (USD3m), 165 technical articles and 18 filings and 1 granted Indian patent. His research is collaborative and international, with joint work with groups such as U.Nairobi Kenya, Swinburne UT Australia, NTU Singapore, ZUT Poland, Imperial College London and U. Warwick UK, U. Bordeaux France, MSU USA and ETS Montreal, Canada.
Passionate for tech-translation, Dr. Rajagopal has co-founded Startups including Planys and Solinas which deliver robotic inspections for submerged structural assets and more recently Xyma Analytics set to deliver Industrial IOT using waveguide sensors. Dr. Rajagopal's work on a robotic Septic Tank cleaning solution has also been discussed widely.
Dr. Rajagopal’s research is widely recognized through awards including theYoung NDT Scientist Award from ISNT, National Design Award from NDRF- Institution of Engineers (India), Institute R&D Award (Early Career) from IIT Madras and more recently, the prestigious National Swarnajayanti Fellowship Award from DST, Govt. India.
His work has also received coverage in prestigious national and international print/online media over the last few years (The Hindu, Buisinessline, ET, TOI, Deccan Chronicle, New Indian Express, NDTV, India Today, Yourstory, Better Indian, EdexLive, Asia Times).
Dr.Anishkumar, Indira Gandhi Centre
Dr. Anish Kumar is heading Ultrasonic Measurements Section of NDE Division in Metallurgy and Materials Group at Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam. He obtained B.E. in Metallurgical Engineering from Bihar Institute of Technology, Sindri in 1996 and Ph.D from IIT, Kharagpur in 2005. In the past 22 years, he has been involved in development of innovative methodologies for ultrasonic inspection of nuclear components& structures and microstructural characterization in a wide range of alloy systems using acoustic &magnetic techniques. He worked as post-doctoral fellows at Fraunhofer Institute for NDT (IZFP), Germany (as Alexander von Humboldt fellow) and the University of Michigan, USA for one year each. He has over 150 publications to his credit including more than 100 publications in peer reviewed international journals. He is the recipient of Science & Technology Excellence Award (2015) from Dept. of Atomic Energy, National NDT Award in R&D (2015) from Indian Society for NDT (ISNT) and several young researcher/ scientist awards from various Indian and International societies, such as Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), Indian National Science Academy (INSA), Indian Institute of Metals (IIM), The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS-USA), International Committee for NDT (ICNDT) and ISNT.
Dr. Shyamsunder Mandayam
Chief Scientific Advisor, Azeriri Pvt Ltd, Chennai
Mentor, TeraLumen Solutions Ltd, Chennai
Technical Advisor, National Research and Design Forum
Chairman, National Certification Board -Indian Society of Nondestructive Testing (ISNT)
Former Principal Scientist / Quality & Innovation Leader at GE Global Research (2000 to 2020)
Former Senior Scientific Officer @IGCAR, Kalpakkam (1984 to 2000),
Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, TRIZ Level 3 expert, ASNT NDT Level 3 (ET & MT).
A B.E (Metallurgy) from MS University Baroda and Ph.D from IIT, Kharagpur, he is a 36+ years experienced innovator, researcher, technologist and trainer with deep domain expertise in the multidisciplinary area of Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE) of materials, components and structures as applied to Aerospace, Oil & Gas, Power, Renewables, Transportation and other industries. Passion to drive, lead and synergize between domains and adjacencies to enable best-in-class solutions using cutting edge technologies to industrial problems and challenges through collaborations, knowledge sharing and networking. Worked extensively in the development of new and Advanced NDE / Inspection techniques, driving the vision and prepared roadmaps for next generation. He loves exploring new domains and advanced technologies and has worked on some of the most advanced techniques in Electromagnetic, Ultrasound and Radiographic NDE, Automation and Robotics/Drones for Industrial Inspection for challenging applications in the industry.
He is currently mentoring, advising and incubating a few start-ups and pioneering the adoption of NDE 4.0 and Inspection through digital transformation (IoT, Digital Twins, AR/VR, Analytics using AI and ML, ….). He is passionate about Industry-Academia interactions and working towards enabling the same.
He has 12 patents and 160+ papers in various journals, books and proceedings and delivered 90+ invited talks. Received several prestigious awards like National NDT award for R&D, GE India’s JRD Tata award for excellence, GE Whitney award to name a few. He is an Honorary Fellow of ISNT and a Life Member of ASNT, MSI, AMSI, InSIS. He is on the Editorial Board of Journal of NDE – the quarterly journal from ISNT and a Reviewer for several journals including Experimental Techniques and others.
