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Dr. K. Srinivas

ADVANCED SYSTEMS LABORATORY
DEFENCE RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION
KANCHNABAGH PO HYDERABAD 500058

Dr. Srinivas Kuchipudi
Scientist F
Deputy Tech Director ,Directorate of R & QA

MOBILE: +91-9346962597
E-mail : vasu72@gmail.com , srinivask@asl.Drdo.in
Dr Srnivas Kuchipudi is Deputy Technology Director,

Reliability & Quality Assurance directorate, Advanced Systems
Laboratory, DRDO, Hyderabad. He has more than 20 years of experience
in synthesis and Characterization of materials including ceramics,
Ferroelectrics, Magneto-electric Composites, amd Fiber reinforced
polymer composites and Non-destructive testing using ultrasonics,
thermography and Nuclear Magnetic resonance. He has established
various facilities required for Non-destructive testing . Presently
he is responsible for NDE & QA coverage of various technologies
developed by ASL.

Academic record
1. _ Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) in Physics , May 2002 frem
Institution Department of Physics,
Osmania University, Hyderabad, INDIA
2, Master of Science in Physics , 1996

Institution Osmania University, Hyderabad, India
Career:
Grade/Post From To Estt/ Lab/ Institution
National Tsinghua University,
Post Doc Sept 2002 Feb 2003 Hsinchu uwan
, Contract scientist March 2003 Nov 2003 DoAC, ASL, Hyderabad
wildne Advanced Systems Laboratory
Scientist 18/11/2003 DRDO Kanchanbagh PO
Hyderabad,|ndia 500058

: 1) DRDO Technology Group award 2008
2) AGNI award for excellence in self reliance for year ‘ ee
3) DRDO Titanium medal for the year 2012

ernational peer reviwed pub

C P Madhusudan

Entrepreneur and Business Head

Summary

Madhusudan is the Director of Lucid Software Ltd., a company founded by IIT alumni. Lucid provides software for the global Nondestructive Testing (NDT)/Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE) industry. He is also Director of Sripath, a Hyderabad based speciality diagnostics Lab and is assisting them in scaling up their operations. He has also incubated a Healthcare Data Aggregator at IIT Hyderabad. In his last corporate stint, before turning entrepreneur, he set up European operations for Future Software a Telecom Software company. Madhusudan also has Manufacturing, Marketing and Operations experience in Steel, Automobile and Telecom sectors. He has led alumni activities for both of his alma mater IIT Madras and IIM Bangalore for several years.

Bio-data of Komal Kapoor

Dr. Komal Kapoor is working as Outstanding Scientist, Additional Chief Executive (Zirconium alloy Fabrication Plant, EPP, SSTP, Medical and NFC (Kota)) at Nuclear Fuel Complex, Department of Atomic Energy, Hyderabad.

Dr. Kapoor is a graduate metallurgical engineering with Honors from Punjab University, (1989), he completed 33rd batch orientation course BARC (1990), Trombay and PhD in metallurgical engineering and materials Science from IIT(B), Mumbai (2005).

Dr. Kapoor, was heading QA group till 2020, as a practicing metallurgist he was responsible for development and quality assurance of various products of NFC. He has demonstrated his leadership qualities in accomplishing several challenging tasks in that capacity, some of the noted achievements include

Development of Fully Automated inspection system for 700MWe PHWR fuel Bundle
Process development, establishing inspection systems and QA for ‘U’ bend Incoloy 800 SG tubes for 700MWe PHWRs for 8 sets to M/s L & T
Process qualification and QA of Zr-2.5% Nb pressure tubes from forged route for New 700 MWe projects and 220MWe EMCCR PHWRs
Process development and QA of 10 sets 9 Cr- 1Mo (Mod.) long length (23.1m long) Steam generator tubes for PFBR
QA for supply of D9 cladding Tubing for first and second core of PFBR
Process development for Indigenous Ti- alloy (PT7M) Tubes and Ni- alloy tubes (Superni-42) for BARC
Process Development and supply of indigenous Al-Mg alloy tubes for Bhramos, DRDO
Development of advanced fuel double clad tubes for LMFBRs and AHWR
Process development and QA of IN617 Tubes for Advanced Ultra Super Critical (AUSC) Boiler

From 2020 onwards he was given responsibility of production plants of Zircaloy Fabrication Plant, Extrusion Press and Stainless Steel Tubes Plant. In this period he has achieved several milestones under the challenging circumstances

Highest ever annual production of Zircaloy-4 fuel tubes with remarkable improvement in the recovery
Highest ever annual production of extrusions in wide variety of materials including several strategic Ti and Ni based alloys for the first time
Development and implementation of Forging route for the Zircaloy-4 components for improved quality and recovery
Supply of Fully indigenous 3 sets ‘U’ bend Incoloy 800 SG tubes for 700MWe PHWRs to M/s BHEL with improved recovery
He was also responsible for speedy progress of Zircaloy Fabrication Facility and Hot working Facility at NFC(K)

Under leadership of Dr Kapoor several Development and production activities carried out led to indigenization of critical tubing for nuclear and non-nuclear applications

He has to his credit over 100 publications in international/ national journals and symposia. He is an Adjunct Professor at HBNI, Guest Faculty at University of Hyderabad and Engineering Staff college of India, Hyderabad. He has guided several M. Tech, students at HBNI, IIT, NIT and UOH.

He is recipient of Young Metallurgist award from Ministry of Steel, Govt. of India (2001), best paper awards from IIM and ISNT and DAE excellence awards (8 times). He was a consultant at International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for publication of “Guidebook on Nuclear Fuel Quality and Reliability” and “IAEA-TECDOC Structural materials for liquid metal cooled fast reactor assemblies”.

Dr. Anish Kumar

Brief bio-data of Dr. Anish Kumar
Dr. Anish Kumar is heading Non-Destructive Evaluation 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. 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. In the past 25 years, he has been involved in development of advanced NDE methodologies for inspection of various critical nuclear structures & components. He has about 120 publications in peer reviewed international journals. He has delivered over 50 invited / keynote talks in various national/ international conferences/ symposia. 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. He is also an Associate Editor of the journal Research in NDE (the research journal of American Society for NDT).

Dr. Ripi Singh

Dr. Ripi Singh is now a purposeful innovation coach with a
lifetime of learning in technology, people, and process
development. It all started with aging airplane program in
1992 as a post doc fellow at Georgia Tech. Decades of his
research work on fatigue and fracture, damage tolerance,
human factors in NDE is well published and frequently
referred to. Ripi is now working hard to bring industry 4.0
perspective and innovation processes to the NDE
community and CT Eco-system: with his virtual coaching
lectures and articles. Ripi serves as Chair of ASNT
Committee on NDE 4.0 and Vice Chair of ICNDT SIG on
NDE 4.0. He is also on various university advisory boards, US delegation to ISO 56000 on Innovation
Management, International Association of International Professionals, and CT Academy of Science and
Engineering. Ripi is an author of 4 books, over 100 peer-reviewed publications, and dozens of keynote
lectures.

Dr. C.V. Krishnamurthy

Dr. C.V. Krishnamurthy is currently the associate professor at the Measurements & Modeling Lab, Department of Physics, in IIT Madras, and is an associate of the Center for Nondestructive Evaluation (CNDE) research group. He obtained a PhD in Condensed Matter from IIT Madras, India, in 1989 and is actively involved in non destructing testing (NDT) projects including the development of diagnostic tools for nondestructive evaluation with ultrasound, electromagnetic waves and in imaging as well. His research interests also include the molecular dynamics of confined systems and the modeling of elastic, thermal and electromagnetic properties of polycrystalline and heterogeneous media using wave propagation characteristics.

Dr Krishnamurthy’s work in the field of NDT has been recognized by the Defence Research and Development organization (DRDO). For his contribution, he received the prestigious DRDO Academy Excellence Award for ‘Outstanding and Internationally recognized contribution in the field of NDT in collaboration with DRDO Laboratories leading to innovative and implementable products for DRDO Stakeholders’ in 2017. His research is strongly collaborative, working on multidisciplinary research activities with various entities such as DRDO, CNDE, the Engineering Design laboratory and the Mechanical Engineering department in IIT Madras.

Dr. S Thirunavukkarasu

Dr. S Thirunavukkarasu, is currently heading Electromagnetic Measurements and Structural Integrity Section of Non-Destructive Evaluation Division in Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam. He obtained his post graduation in Physics from Madurai Kamaraj University, Tamil Nadu and Ph.D in Engineering Sciences from Homi Bhabha National Institute (HBNI), Mumbai. His research interests include numerical modelling and inverse problems in Electromagnetic NDE, image processing and development of novel electromagnetic NDE sensors and systems. He is an ASNT NDT Level III in Electromagnetic Testing. He is a recipient of the National NDT Award for his contribution in NDT systems innovations and development in the year 2015 and also a recipient of DAE group achievement award in 2016. He has over 40 publications in peer reviewed journals to his credit and is actively in involved in guiding M.Tech, doctoral students of HBNI.

M.Menaka

M.Menaka, a postgraduate in physics and has over 20 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 Applications and Metrology Section of Radiological Safety Division of the Indira Gandhi Centre for Centre Research, Kalpakkam. She is recently involved in ionising radiation metrology and various ionising radiation applications.

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 80 publications in international and national journals and 100 publications in conferences. She has more than 800 citations for her credit.

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 recipient of the Group Achievement Award of Department Atomic Energy- for the year 2009. She has been bestowed with DAE science and technology excellence award in the year 2020. She has guided more than 20 engineering and science post graduate students in their projects..

She has been an active member of ISNT Kalpakkam Chapter for over 20 years and served in executive committee of ISNT Kalpakkam Chapter 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.

Lalat Indu Giri, PhD

Lalat Indu Giri, PhD

Assistant Professor, Electronics and Communication Engineering,

National Institute of Technology Goa, India

Dr. Lalat Indu Giri, is currently with department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, National Institute of Technology Goa, where he is also serving as the BOG member. Dr. Giri is also an affiliate researcher of The Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science (INESC TEC), Porto, Portugal. Lalat received his M. Tech. and PhD degrees from IIT Kanpur and IIT Delhi respectively. He was also a visiting scholar to The Laboratory of Physics of Complex Matter, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland under Indo-Swiss PhD student exchange programme. Lalat is also a lead partner – India Project Management Committee in an international research project “TRAnsforming Cold Food Chains in INdia through Space ScIence and TechNologies –TRANSSITioN”, completely funded by Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC), Govt. of UK.

His current research interests include Thermal Imaging (Infrared Thermography) for Biomedical Instrumentation, Agriculture Electronics and Structure Health Monitoring applications. He has to his credit many international Journal and Conference papers in the area of Infrared Thermography and related technologies.

K. KUMARAN

Mechanical Engineer from one of the Prestigious Institute PSG College of Technology,
Coimbatore
More than 20 years of experience in NDT in various areas such as Oil & Gas, Construction,
Railways, Defence etc including 10 years of experience in Training and Certification.
Ex scientist from DRDL Hyderabad.
Presently working as Managing Director of ANSA Training and Quality Assurance Pvt Ltd,
Chennai takes care of ISO 9712 NDT Training and certification.
ASNT NDT L3 in RT UT MT PT ET VT
ISO 9712 NDT L3 in RT UT MT PT ET VT
Member of ASNT and Life Member of ISNT

M.Menaka

M.Menaka, a postgraduate in physics and has over 20 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 Applications and Metrology Section of Radiological Safety Division of the Indira Gandhi Centre for Centre Research, Kalpakkam. She is recently involved in ionising radiation metrology and various ionising radiation applications.

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 80 publications in international and national journals and 100 publications in conferences. She has more than 800 citations for her credit.

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 recipient of the Group Achievement Award of Department Atomic Energy- for the year 2009. She has been bestowed with DAE science and technology excellence award in the year 2020. She has guided more than 20 engineering and science post graduate students in their projects..

She has been an active member of ISNT Kalpakkam Chapter for over 20 years and served in executive committee of ISNT Kalpakkam Chapter 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.

Lalat Indu Giri, PhD

Assistant Professor, Electronics and Communication Engineering,

National Institute of Technology Goa, India
Dr. Lalat Indu Giri, is currently with department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, National Institute of Technology Goa, where he is also serving as the BOG member. Dr. Giri is also an affiliate researcher of The Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science (INESC TEC), Porto, Portugal. Lalat received his M. Tech. and PhD degrees from IIT Kanpur and IIT Delhi respectively. He was also a visiting scholar to The Laboratory of Physics of Complex Matter, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland under Indo-Swiss PhD student exchange programme. Lalat is also a lead partner – India Project Management Committee in an international research project “TRAnsforming Cold Food Chains in INdia through Space ScIence and TechNologies –TRANSSITioN”, completely funded by Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC), Govt. of UK.

His current research interests include Thermal Imaging (Infrared Thermography) for Biomedical Instrumentation, Agriculture Electronics and Structure Health Monitoring applications. He has to his credit many international Journal and Conference papers in the area of Infrared Thermography and related technologies.

Dr M. Arumugam

Brief Biodata
Dr M. Arumugam is currently Scientist -H and General
Manager, responsible for the realization of new generation SemiCryo propulsion engine and stages. Prior to this he has been
responsible for Quality and reliability of Liquid and Cryogenic
engine propulsion systems of Indian Space program. He is the
Chairman of Inter- centre NDE Committee. In this capacity, he
has contributed in resolving many critical issues by which the
success of the mission was ensured including the recently
launched LVM3 which deployed 36 web series satellites.
He has notable contributions in evolving the Specifications for India’s prestigious
Gaganyaan mission. He played main role in Indigenisation of various metallic raw
materials and Systems, more specifically Aluminium alloy products for Indian space
program. He has generated many NDE procedures and Acceptance criteria for
Pressure vessels, Investment castings & Raw materials for satellite launch vehicle
programme. He has served as an Expert member in “BrahMos” missile Attestation
committee for Indigenisation of Materials. He has played a vital role in establishing
world class QC and Inspection facilities at LPSC, more specifically in improving the
NDE capabilities. He was awarded the National NDT Award for Excellence in NDTIndustries in 2015. In recognition to his outstanding contributions in Metallurgy and
NDT, ISRO had awarded group awards in 2015, 2012 and 2009. He has over 3
decades of experience in aerospace materials, NDT and now in fabrication. He has
supported the faculty of Department of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering of NIT,
Trichy and delivered lectures to cover the NDT portion of their curriculum for B.Tech,
M.Tech and PhD students from 2014-2020.
He received his undergraduate degree in Metallurgical Engg from University of
Madras (Govt. College of Engg,, Salem) in 1987. He the received his MS in 2012
from BITS, Pilani and PhD in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering in 2021 from
National Institute of Technology, Trichirappalli. He has published more than 60
research papers in National, International Journals and Conferences

Prof. Prabhu Rajagopal

Prof. Prabhu Rajagopal
Bio: Trained at IIT Madras (BTech & DD MTech) and Imperial College London (PhD, Postdoc), Prof. Prabhu has expertise in Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE) and Structural Health Monitoring (SHM). With over 30 funded projects, 200 technical articles, 14 granted IPs, he is widely recognised for his pioneering work on waveguide ultrasonics and robotics for digital transformation in the industrial (energy and mobility) and social (water, health and sanitation) contexts. His work spans the spectrum of sensing and data management leveraging the latest innovations in analytics and Blockchain. Prof. Prabhu is passionate about service-oriented engineering education and technology translation, working closely with companies, agencies and societal bodies in taking these innovations to the field. In this quest he has also co-founded several Startups that license his IPs, and are disrupting the asset/ plant integrity maintenance space with their original offerings digital integrity monitoring. Today, river crossings of rail and road bridges, and distribution water pipes are inspected across India and several locations in the world through solutions from Planys and Solinas. Xyma develops waveguide ultrasonic sensors for IOT, already applied across mineral ore processing, petrochemical and glass industries. Recipient of prestigious Early Career awards from academia and industry (National Design and Research Forum – Institution of Engineers (India), Indian Society for NDT, Institute for Smart Structures and Systems – IISc, IIT Madras Institute R&D Award and the National Swarnajayanti Fellowship), Prof. Prabhu’s work has also been featured widely in popular media. Prof. Prabhu is Vice Chairman of the Chennai Chapter of Indian Society for NDT, and an Associate Editor of the international peer-reviewed journal, Ultrasonics from Elsevier group. At IIT Madras, he is faculty in-charge of the pioneering Center for Innovation, and more recently, convenor of the Institute Innovation Council.

Dr. Ripi Singh

Dr. Ripi Singh
Dr. Ripi Singh is now a purposeful innovation coach with a
lifetime of learning in technology, people, and process
development. It all started with aging airplane program in
1992 as a post doc fellow at Georgia Tech. Decades of his
research work on fatigue and fracture, damage tolerance,
human factors in NDE is well published and frequently
referred to. Ripi is now working hard to bring industry 4.0
perspective and innovation processes to the NDE
community and CT Eco-system: with his virtual coaching
lectures and articles. Ripi serves as Chair of ASNT
Committee on NDE 4.0 and Vice Chair of ICNDT SIG on
NDE 4.0. He is also on various university advisory boards, US delegation to ISO 56000 on Innovation
Management, International Association of International Professionals, and CT Academy of Science and
Engineering. Ripi is an author of 4 books, over 100 peer-reviewed publications, and dozens of keynote
lectures.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. (apl.) Ute Rabe

Prof. Dr.-Ing. (apl.) Ute Rabe
Department of In-Service Inspection & Life-Cycle Monitoring
Group Manager Method Development for In-Service Inspection
Fraunhofer Institute for Nondestructive Testing IZFP
Campus E3.1 Saarbrücken, Germany
Email: Ute.Rabe@izfp.fraunhofer.de

Dr.-Ing. Ute Rabe is involved in research and development of ultrasonic and acoustic methods for non-destructive testing and condition monitoring. Since 2001 she has been a scientific employee at the Fraunhofer Institute for Nondestructive Testing IZFP, Saarbrücken, Germany. She studied physics at the universities of Bonn, Göttingen and Heidelberg and finished her studies in Saarbrücken with a diploma thesis in the fields of optical interferometry and laser ultrasound. In 1996, she completed her doctorate in materials science at Saarland University. The subject of her doctoral thesis and the subsequent focus of research work in the Department of Fundamentals at Fraunhofer IZFP was Atomic Force Acoustic Microscopy (AFAM). U. Rabe has been active in teaching in the field of nondestructive testing since 2007 and was appointed associate professor in materials engineering at Saarland University in 2015. Since 2015, she has been a group leader in the Condition Monitoring & Lifetime Management department at Fraunhofer IZFP. Her current tasks include nondestructive sensor application in general and specifically research and development of ultrasonic methods for heterogeneous and/or anisotropic materials, such as fiber composites and reinforced concrete.

Dr Herbert Wiggenhauser

Physicist, graduated 1986 at Technical University Berlin/Germany. PostDoc at Lash-Miller-Laboratory at University of Toronto Canada (1986/87)

Director of Section NDT in Civil Engineering at BAM (Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing) in Berlin/Germany between 1989 and 2018.
Involved in numerous national and international research projects on the development of NDT&E methods: LIBS Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy; Ultrasonic Pulse Echo for Concrete; Radar for Concrete and Masonry; Scanning Impact-Echo; IR Thermography (transient); Moisture Measurements in Concrete and Masonry; Optical surface scanning; Statistical methods; Data analysis (time-frequency analysis, adaptive filtering); Distributed sensor networks for concrete structures; Corrosion identification with GPR
Application of methods: Testing of bridges; Automation of methods; Combined methods (data fusion); Testing of historical structures;Information, Education, Standards; Validation; Reference specimens
Guest scientist at CSIR-SERC (Structural Engineering Research Centre, Chennai) within Humboldt Reciprocity Research Award 2006

Past Member and chairman of national and international committees (DGZfP, TRB, ACI)
Organizer of NDT-CE 1995,2003 and 2015 in Berlin/Germany and other national Conferences and workshops.
Since Retirement Consultant in NDT in Civil Engineering.

DR. R.J. PARDIKAR,

Krishanamurthy DR. R.J. PARDIKAR,
IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT-ISNT
CHIEF MANAGER / NDT, TWI INDIA PVT LTD.
EX.GM / QUALITY / NDT BHEL TIRUCHY.
*Holding Ph.D. degree in Engineering for his work on “Structural Integrity and damage assessment of Engineering components,” from a French University.

* M.Tech. Degree in NDT from National institute of Technology.

Holding several professional certificates including:
*ASNT / ACCP /CSWIP LEVEL- 3 In RT, UT, MT, PT.
*CSWIP Level 2 in UT, MT, PT, PAUT, TOFD, ECT and Digital Radiography from TWI UK
*Having over 40 years of experience in the field of Quality and NDE of Boilers, Pressure Vessels, Heat Exchangers, Nuclear Components, Valves and defense.
Started career in a humble way as a Trainee at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) Mumbai. On completion of one-year training at BARC he was deputed to BHELTiruchy in Nov.1977 on a Special mission to set right the radiation protection issues during industrial Radiography and to develop a Robust Radiation Safety system.

Subsequently he joined BHEL in 1978 and had Glorious career of over three and half decades in Bharat Heavy Electrical Ltd. (BHEL), Tiruchirappalli., a world class manufacturer of power equipment. During his illustrious career at BHEL he was groomed in to an Expert in NDT. With his Scientific and Technical achievements and outstanding Managerial Skills, he rose to the position of General manager and superannuated from BHEL in 2013.
In his second innings from Jan.2014, he continues to work for another Global leader in Research and Technology with a specialty in welding namely TWI UK.
He is a passionate NDT engineer and well recognized NDT expert in India and abroad for his technical contributions in the field. Recipient of several professional awards.
Throughout his career he has been promoting NDE Science and Technology in Industry towards Enhancing Quality and safety, and productivity of engineering products. He Promoted applied research in NDT and developed and established several innovative NDT Techniques for Manufacturing, In-service inspection and Residual life assessment of ageing power equipment. His work on “detection of hydrogen damage in boiler components by ultrasonic technique” was rewarded with National NDT award in 1994. He has published over 150 technical papers in the national and international conferences and journals. Over the years he Contributed significantly to the Research in NDE.
He has been a member of ISNT over 40 years, since its formation and significantly contributed towards the growth of ISNT by shouldering the responsibilities in various capacities such as Hon.General Secretary for nine years and recently served as the President of ISNT.during 2018-2019.

*Having over 40 years of experience in the field of Quality and NDE of Boilers, Pressure Vessels, Heat Exchangers, Nuclear Components, Valves and defense equipment etc, during manufacturing and in-service inspection .He had been instrumental for introduction of several advanced NDE Technologies like Digital and Computed Radiography, Ultrasonic Phased Array technology, High Energy Radiography using Linear Accelerators, Micro focal radiography of critical nuclear components, Real time Radioscopy with Automatic Defect Recognition at BHEL.
Having vast experience in Materials and processes involved in manufacturing of Thermal & Nuclear Power plant components.
*He has contributed significantly towards human resource development in NDT; training and certification of NDE Personnel as per national and International standards.
He also served as the regional Controller of examinations for NCB of ISNT.
He evinced keen interest in promoting NDE Technology in academic institutes.
He was one of those responsible for initiating a Post Graduate Degree M. Tech NDT course at NIT Trichy and nurtured it over several years giving full support from BHEL.

In recognition of significant contribution towards promotion of science and technology received many Awards at the National and International level which includes:

Honors and Awards:

Life time achievement award 2020 by ISNT
*Bharat Vibhushan award-2016
*Swami Vivekananda Sandman Puraskar _2015
*Asia Pacific Achievers Award for Industry Development 2014
*Bharat Jyoti award 2013
*Glory of India Gold medal 2013.
*Man of the year 2009 Awarded by American Biographical Institute, for outstanding community and professional achievement.
•International recognition award 2008 by ISNT.
•NDE Excellence award by ISNT Trichy chapter in 2008.
•International Engineer of the year 2008 awarded by International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, London.
•Inclusion of Biographical profile in “Marques Who’s who in Science and Engineering -2006-07”.
•BHEL Republic day award in 2005.
•BHEL Excellence award in quality in 2004.
•ISNT Award for best technical paper in JNDE 2001.
•ISNT Award for best technical paper in JNDE 2000.
•BHEL Republic day Award in 1995
•National NDT Award (Industrial applications) by ISNT in 1994.

Hajo Schulenburg

Hajo Schulenburg is currently General Manager of VisiConsult X-ray Systems & Solutions GmbH, Germany, and Director of VisiConsult Private Limited, Pune. He has more than 35 years of experience in the manufacturing of x-ray inspection systems. He started his career as a Chip designer at Philips. Later moved to Nordischer Maschinenbau as a development engineer. He was working on the development of the fishbone X-ray scanner. He was Head of software at SEIVERT for more than 10 years, developing Vistaplus and SABA software for x-ray inspection. He founded VisiConsult x-ray systems & solutions in 1996. He contributed to the development of Xplus – x-ray inspection & control software and differentiated the company by offering customized inspection solutions. He started a manufacturing facility in Pune and contribute to the cost-effective x-ray systems, called the ECO series.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christian Boller

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christian Boller
Christian Boller studied civil engineering at the Technical University of
Darmstadt/Germany and received an engineering doctoral degree in the field of
material mechanics and fatigue life evaluation from the same institution in 1987.
Having been active in the field of materials technology at Battelle-Europe in
Frankfurt/Germany for a few years, he moved into the aircraft development division of
MBB Military Aircraft (today Airbus) in 1990, where he became the chief engineer
aerostructures in 1998. In 2003 he was appointed the chair of ‘Smart Structural
Design’ at the University of Sheffield/UK. From 2008 until 2020 he was director of
Fraunhofer IZFP. Since 2008 he holds the chair for Non-Destructive Testing and
Quality Assurance (LZfPQ) at Saarland University. He is also the director of the NDT
master course programme at Dresden International University (DIU) since 2013. In
2014 he was appointed a visiting professorship at the School of Aeronautics of Nanjing
University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA) in Nanjing/China. He is the author
and co-author of more than 300 publications including ‘Materials Data for Cyclic
Loading’ (1987) and ‘Encyclopaedia on Structural Health Monitoring’ (2008) both a 5-
volume compendium each. He is also one of the central organizers of the ‘European
Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring’ and the ‘Symposium on NDT in Aerospace’.
Universität des Saarlandes, Lehrstuhl für Zerstörungsfreie Prüfung und
Qualitätssicherung, Campus Dudweiler, Am Markt Zeile 4, 66125 Saarbrücken,
Tel. 0681 302 64100, Fax 0681 302 4859, E-Mail c.boller@mx.uni-saarland.de

Balaji Srinivasan obtained

Balaji Srinivasan obtained his Ph.D. in 2000 from the University of New Mexico, USA. He subsequently worked as a Senior Development Scientist at Corning Incorporated, USA, where he led technology development efforts related to 3D Optical Cross-connects and Channel Selectable Tunable Filters. Since 2004 he has been with the Indian Institute of Technology Madras as a faculty in the Department of Electrical Engineering, presently as Professor

Balaji’s research interests span the development of active and passive optical components / subsystems for distributed fiber optic sensors and fiber lasers. Balaji has co-authored more than 200 journal and international conference publications, as well as 4 book chapters. He also has 10 patents to his credit (10 more pending). He has successfully executed or currently investigating over 30 research projects, resulting in the development of 6 technologies, 3 of which have been transferred to industry for commercialization.

Balaji presently serves in the Editorial Board of the prestigious Optics Express journal, and was until recently one of the Directors of Unilumen Photonics Pvt Ltd, a fiber laser company incubated by IIT Madras. He has previously served as Member of the Photonics Working Group of the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DEITy), Government of India, Steering Committee of the National Photonics Fellowship, the Editorial Board of the Springer Photonic Network Communications Journal, and as a Chair for the 2012 International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics. For his professional accomplishments, he has been awarded Senior Membership in Optica.

Aparna Sheila Vadde

Aparna Sheila-Vadde has been with the NDE Lab in GE Research since 2005. She has worked on design, simulation, testing and analysis of electromagnetic sensors for various inspection and monitoring applications. Prior to GE, Aparna worked at Western Digital Corp and Read-Rite, in Fremont, CA, for 3.5 years on GMR sensor design for hard-drives. Aparna has a B.Tech from Kerala University, MS from IISc and Ph.D from Carnegie Mellon University, USA, all in ECE.

Dr. Deepak Kumar Ghodgaonkar

Brief Biograhy

Dr. Deepak Kumar Ghodgaonkar received the B. E. Electronics degree from the University of Indore, Indore in 1976. He has done M. Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IITB), Mumbai in 1978. His M. Tech. thesis was on computer aided design, fabrication and testing of PIN Diode Phase Shifters. After getting M. Tech. degree, he worked at SMPU (now, Sameer) division of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, for two years. He received Ph. D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA, in May 1987. His Ph. D. thesis was on dielectric measurements of biological materials at millimeter wave frequencies. After getting Ph. D. degree, he worked at the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics of the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA, for 5 years. At Penn State, he developed the noncontact and nondestructive free-space microwave measurement system in the frequency range of 5.85 – 40 GHz for research on microwave NDT of composite materials. After working at Penn State, for 1¹/₂ years, he did teaching and research at the Thadomal Shahani Engineering College (TSEC), Bandra, Mumbai. Then, he was working as an associate professor at the MARA University of Technology (UiTM), Shah Alam, Malaysia for 11 years. During this time, he did extensive research in microwave characterization of composite materials. Dr. Ghodgaonkar is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Malaysia (FIEM), Malaysia, a Fellow of the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (FIETE), India and a Senior Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, (SMIEEE). He is also a Life Member of Indian Society for Technical Education (MISTE). He was involved in organizing 9 conferences in areas such as telecommunications, sensors and applied electromagnetics. He has published more than 15 research reports and 150 papers in journals and conferences. He has received several research awards such as Model Researcher Award at the MARA University of Technology. His research interests are in areas such as microwave sensors, microwave characterization of composite materials, biomedical applications of microwaves, microwave instrumentation and microwave measurements.

Currently, Dr. Deepak K. Ghodgaonkar is a professor at Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT), Gandhinagar, Gujarat since January 2006. He has more than 35-year experience in teaching and research in the field of RF and Microwave Engineering.

Dr. Vanita Arora

Dr. Vanita Arora

Abstract: InfraRed Thermography (IRT) is one of the promising imaging modalities for non-destructive testing/non-invasive evaluation of a wide variety of industrial materials. IRT gained wide acceptance due to its inherent merits such as safe, remote, fast and easy to deploy in the field for testing and evaluation of various materials. Among the widely used IRT approaches, recently introduced pulse compression favorable excitation schemes have become popular due to their higher test sensitivity and resolution even with the usage of low peak power probing energy into the test material. This talk highlights various signal and image processing approaches especially for high resolution coded excitation schemes. Further the merits and limitations of these approaches will be discussed for subsurface feature visualization in various industrial materials.

Brief biography: Vanita Arora received the Ph.D. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Ropar (IIT Ropar), India. She is serving as a research consultant to SS Automation Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Bengaluru, India. She is working as a faculty member at Indian Institute of Information Technology Una, Transit Campus-II: Vill. Chandpur, Teh. Haroli, Distt. Una, Himachal Pradesh-India and Her research interests include the development of infrared imaging technologies for non-invasive/nondestructive testing applications. She serves as a guest editor for several refereed journals.

Lalat Indu Giri, PhD

Assistant Professor, Electronics and Communication Engineering,

National Institute of Technology Goa, India

Dr. Lalat Indu Giri, is currently with department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, National Institute of Technology Goa, where he is also serving as the BOG member. Dr. Giri is also an affiliate researcher of The Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science (INESC TEC), Porto, Portugal. Lalat received his M. Tech. and PhD degrees from IIT Kanpur and IIT Delhi respectively. He was also a visiting scholar to The Laboratory of Physics of Complex Matter, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland under Indo-Swiss PhD student exchange programme. Lalat is also a lead partner – India Project Management Committee in an international research project “TRAnsforming Cold Food Chains in INdia through Space ScIence and TechNologies –TRANSSITioN”, completely funded by Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC), Govt. of UK.
His current research interests include Thermal Imaging (Infrared Thermography) for Biomedical Instrumentation, Agriculture Electronics and Structure Health Monitoring applications. He has to his credit many international Journal and Conference papers in the area of Infrared Thermography and related technologies.

M.Menaka

Short Bio-data

M.Menaka, a postgraduate in physics and has over 20 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 Applications and Metrology Section of Radiological Safety Division of the Indira Gandhi Centre for Centre Research, Kalpakkam. She is recently involved in ionising radiation metrology and various ionising radiation applications.

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 80 publications in international and national journals and 100 publications in conferences. She has more than 800 citations for her credit.

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 recipient of the Group Achievement Award of Department Atomic Energy- for the year 2009. She has been bestowed with DAE science and technology excellence award in the year 2020. She has guided more than 20 engineering and science post graduate students in their projects..

She has been an active member of ISNT Kalpakkam Chapter for over 20 years and served in executive committee of ISNT Kalpakkam Chapter 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.

K. KUMARAN – NDT LEVEL 3/CONSULTANT

Mechanical Engineer from one of the Prestigious Institute PSG College of Technology,
Coimbatore
More than 20 years of experience in NDT in various areas such as Oil & Gas, Construction,
Railways, Defence etc including 10 years of experience in Training and Certification.
Ex scientist from DRDL Hyderabad.
Presently working as Managing Director of ANSA Training and Quality Assurance Pvt Ltd,
Chennai takes care of ISO 9712 NDT Training and certification.
ASNT NDT L3 in RT UT MT PT ET VT
ISO 9712 NDT L3 in RT UT MT PT ET VT
Member of ASNT and Life Member of ISNT

Hajo _ Photograph

Hajo Schulenburg is currently General Manager of VisiConsult X-ray Systems & Solutions GmbH, Germany, and Director of VisiConsult Private Limited, Pune. He has more than 35 years of experience in the manufacturing of x-ray inspection systems. He started his career as a Chip designer at Philips. Later moved to Nordischer Maschinenbau as a development engineer. He was working on the development of the fishbone X-ray scanner. He was Head of software at SEIVERT for more than 10 years, developing Vistaplus and SABA software for x-ray inspection. He founded VisiConsult x-ray systems & solutions in 1996. He contributed to the development of Xplus – x-ray inspection & control software and differentiated the company by offering customized inspection solutions. He started a manufacturing facility in Pune and contribute to the cost-effective x-ray systems, called the ECO series.

Dr. Geetika Dua

Machine Vision Applications for Detection and Characterization of Defects in Industrial Materials

Abstract: The industrial applications of lightweight material are increasing across many domains, which bring new challenges for efficient and reliable material inspection, damage detection, defect classification, and characterization. The advancements in Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) techniques and Machine Vision (MV) algorithms offer the correct setting to tackle these challenges successfully. Non-destructive testing is a set of techniques used to identify any structural damage/hidden anomaly/surface or sub-surface defect in a material without any permanent damage or modification. Nowadays, Infrared thermography (IRT) is one of the widely used NDT techniques for non-destructive testing, quality inspection, and evaluation of materials. IRT attained prominence due to its whole-field, non-coupling, safe, swift, and quantitative inspection competencies to assess various structures despite their electrical and magnetic properties. Among the various IRT techniques, Aperiodic IRT (ApIRT) is in wide use at both industrial and research levels due to its ability to detect defects of different sizes, with different thermal characteristics placed at varying depths in the material with improved test resolution and sensitivity. Machine Vision has made remarkable progress in image processing applications in recent years. It has shown its ability to overcome most of the disadvantages of previous approaches in many applications. This talk highlights a machine vision algorithm based on aperiodic infrared thermography inspection intended to automatically detect, identify, and characterize the defects efficiently and accurately

Brief Biodata: Geetika Dua received the Ph.D. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Ropar (IIT Ropar), India. She is currently working with the Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala, Punjab, India. She serves as a Guest Editor for several refereed journals. Her major areas of research interest are the development of signal, image, and video processing methods for nondestructive testing/noninvasive imaging modalities for inspection of various industrial and biomedical materials.

Dr. Debasish

Mishra graduated from University of Roorkee with a post-graduate degree specializing in Engineering Physics. He then joined IIT Kanpur for M. Tech and Ph.D program in Nuclear Engineering. Debasish is a recipient of the prestigious Dr. K. S. Krishnan Fellowship of the Department of Atomic Energy, Govt. of India and Young Scientist Award from the Indian Science Congress Association.

Debasish worked at State University of New York (SUNY) Stony Brook as a Research Scientist and at the Idaho State University as a Research Assistant Professor. He joined at GE Global Research Center in June 2003. Currently he leads the Non-destructive Evaluation research group at GE Global Research Centre Bangalore.

Debasish has worked in laser/optical interferometry, digital radiography, computed tomography application for non-destructive evaluation of materials.

Dr. Bala Pesala

Dr. Bala Pesala is currently the mentor for Teralumen Solutions. He is also an adjunct professor at IIT Jodhpur and SRM university. Teralumen Solutions is India’s first company focused on commercialization of THz technologies. Dr. Bala received his B. Tech from IIT Madras and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from University of California at Berkeley. He also received minor degree in Business from Haas school, UC Berkeley. Bala Pesala was formerly a Senior Principal scientist at Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Chennai and a Professor at Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR) where he has established a dedicated lab focused on Terahertz research and development. He received several awards including CSIR Young Scientist Award (2016), Demitri Angelakos memorial achievement award (UC Berkeley 2009), Rafael Rodriguez Golden Age Fellowship (UC Berkeley) and Silver medal for the highest GPA in Aerospace engineering (IIT Madras 2003) to name a few. He has authored/co-authored more than 150 publications in leading peer reviewed journals and conferences and has three granted U.S patents and 1 European patent to his name. His current goal is to create global deep tech companies.

Dr. Debasish

Dr. Debasish Mishra graduated from University of Roorkee with a post-graduate degree specializing in Engineering Physics. He then joined IIT Kanpur for M. Tech and Ph.D program in Nuclear Engineering. Debasish is a recipient of the prestigious Dr. K. S. Krishnan Fellowship of the Department of Atomic Energy, Govt. of India and Young Scientist Award from the Indian Science Congress Association.

Debasish worked at State University of New York (SUNY) Stony Brook as a Research Scientist and at the Idaho State University as a Research Assistant Professor. He joined at GE Global Research Center in June 2003. Currently he leads the Non-destructive Evaluation research group at GE Global Research Centre Bangalore.

Debasish has worked in laser/optical interferometry, digital radiography, computed tomography application for non-destructive evaluation of materials.

Profile of S. Balamurugan

Mr S Balamurugan, is heading Non-Destructive Testing and Sensors Research Group in R&D, Tata Steel Ltd, Jamshedpur, who has been working in the area of n

on-destructive evaluation for the last 18 years. His areas of research interests include Non-destructive evaluation in process control, product quality assurance and condition monitoring for steel industries.

He did his undergraduate in B.E., – Mechanical from Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai, Tamil Nadu in 2002 and then he completed his graduation in Non-Destructive Testing from NIT, Tiruchirappalli in 2004.

His experience includes five years as a lead engineer in ALSTOM for condition assessment of critical components in various power plants.

He was the recipient of “National NDT award for excellence in Industrial Applications in 2018” from Indian Society for Non-Destructive Testing (ISNT). Also, he was consistently recognised by “TATA INNOVISTA” a major event for recognition of innovations in the companies across the TATA group, where he won two awards in 2022”, and a Regional Award in 2015.

He has published more than 15 technical papers in national and international journals /conferences, filed 15+ patents in the area of Non-destructive evaluation.

Dr M. Arumugam

Dr M. Arumugam is currently Scientist -H and General
Manager, responsible for the realization of new generation SemiCryo propulsion engine and stages. Prior to this he has been
responsible for Quality and reliability of Liquid and Cryogenic
engine propulsion systems of Indian Space program. He is the
Chairman of Inter- centre NDE Committee. In this capacity, he
has contributed in resolving many critical issues by which the
success of the mission was ensured including the recently
launched LVM3 which deployed 36 web series satellites.
He has notable contributions in evolving the Specifications for India’s prestigious
Gaganyaan mission. He played main role in Indigenisation of various metallic raw
materials and Systems, more specifically Aluminium alloy products for Indian space
program. He has generated many NDE procedures and Acceptance criteria for
Pressure vessels, Investment castings & Raw materials for satellite launch vehicle
programme. He has served as an Expert member in “BrahMos” missile Attestation
committee for Indigenisation of Materials. He has played a vital role in establishing
world class QC and Inspection facilities at LPSC, more specifically in improving the
NDE capabilities. He was awarded the National NDT Award for Excellence in NDTIndustries in 2015. In recognition to his outstanding contributions in Metallurgy and
NDT, ISRO had awarded group awards in 2015, 2012 and 2009. He has over 3
decades of experience in aerospace materials, NDT and now in fabrication. He has
supported the faculty of Department of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering of NIT,
Trichy and delivered lectures to cover the NDT portion of their curriculum for B.Tech,
M.Tech and PhD students from 2014-2020.
He received his undergraduate degree in Metallurgical Engg from University of
Madras (Govt. College of Engg,, Salem) in 1987. He the received his MS in 2012
from BITS, Pilani and PhD in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering in 2021 from
National Institute of Technology, Trichirappalli. He has published more than 60
research papers in National, International Journals and Conferences

Dr M. Arumugam is currently Scientist -H and General

Dr M. Arumugam is currently Scientist -H and General
Manager, responsible for the realization of new generation SemiCryo propulsion engine and stages. Prior to this he has been
responsible for Quality and reliability of Liquid and Cryogenic
engine propulsion systems of Indian Space program. He is the
Chairman of Inter- centre NDE Committee. In this capacity, he
has contributed in resolving many critical issues by which the
success of the mission was ensured including the recently
launched LVM3 which deployed 36 web series satellites.
He has notable contributions in evolving the Specifications for India’s prestigious
Gaganyaan mission. He played main role in Indigenisation of various metallic raw
materials and Systems, more specifically Aluminium alloy products for Indian space
program.

Dr. Bala Pesala

Dr. Bala Pesala is currently the mentor for Teralumen Solutions. He is also an adjunct professor at IIT Jodhpur and SRM university. Teralumen Solutions is India’s first company focused on commercialization of THz technologies. Dr. Bala received his B. Tech from IIT Madras and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from University of California at Berkeley. He also received minor degree in Business from Haas school, UC Berkeley. Bala Pesala was formerly a Senior Principal scientist at Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Chennai and a Professor at Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR) where he has established a dedicated lab focused on Terahertz research and development. He received several awards including CSIR Young Scientist Award (2016), Demitri Angelakos memorial achievement award (UC Berkeley 2009), Rafael Rodriguez Golden Age Fellowship (UC Berkeley) and Silver medal for the highest GPA in Aerospace engineering (IIT Madras 2003) to name a few. He has authored/co-authored more than 150 publications in leading peer reviewed journals and conferences and has three granted U.S patents and 1 European patent to his name. His current goal is to create global deep tech companies.

Brief Biodata

Dr M. Arumugam is currently Scientist -H and General
Manager, responsible for the realization of new generation SemiCryo propulsion engine and stages. Prior to this he has been
responsible for Quality and reliability of Liquid and Cryogenic
engine propulsion systems of Indian Space program. He is the
Chairman of Inter- centre NDE Committee. In this capacity, he
has contributed in resolving many critical issues by which the
success of the mission was ensured including the recently
launched LVM3 which deployed 36 web series satellites.
He has notable contributions in evolving the Specifications for India’s prestigious
Gaganyaan mission. He played main role in Indigenisation of various metallic raw
materials and Systems, more specifically Aluminium alloy products for Indian space
program. He has generated many NDE procedures and Acceptance criteria for
Pressure vessels, Investment castings & Raw materials for satellite launch vehicle
programme. He has served as an Expert member in “BrahMos” missile Attestation
committee for Indigenisation of Materials. He has played a vital role in establishing
world class QC and Inspection facilities at LPSC, more specifically in improving the
NDE capabilities. He was awarded the National NDT Award for Excellence in NDTIndustries in 2015. In recognition to his outstanding contributions in Metallurgy and
NDT, ISRO had awarded group awards in 2015, 2012 and 2009. He has over 3
decades of experience in aerospace materials, NDT and now in fabrication. He has
supported the faculty of Department of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering of NIT,
Trichy and delivered lectures to cover the NDT portion of their curriculum for B.Tech,
M.Tech and PhD students from 2014-2020.
He received his undergraduate degree in Metallurgical Engg from University of
Madras (Govt. College of Engg,, Salem) in 1987. He the received his MS in 2012
from BITS, Pilani and PhD in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering in 2021 from
National Institute of Technology, Trichirappalli. He has published more than 60
research papers in National, International Journals and Conferences

Dr. Bala Pesala

Dr. Bala Pesala
Mentor, Teralumen Solutions
djunct Professor, IIT Jodhpur & SRM University
E-mail: balapesala@gmail.com
Phone: +919003259364

https://www.linkedin.com/in/balapesala/
is currently the mentor for Teralumen Solutions. He is also an adjunct professor at IIT Jodhpur and SRM university. Teralumen Solutions is India’s first company focused on commercialization of THz technologies. Dr. Bala received his B. Tech from IIT Madras and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from University of California at Berkeley. He also received minor degree in Business from Haas school, UC Berkeley. Bala Pesala was formerly a Senior Principal scientist at Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Chennai and a Professor at Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR) where he has established a dedicated lab focused on Terahertz research and development. He received several awards including CSIR Young Scientist Award (2016), Demitri Angelakos memorial achievement award (UC Berkeley 2009), Rafael Rodriguez Golden Age Fellowship (UC Berkeley) and Silver medal for the highest GPA in Aerospace engineering (IIT Madras 2003) to name a few. He has authored/co-authored more than 150 publications in leading peer reviewed journals and conferences and has three granted U.S patents and 1 European patent to his name. His current goal is to create global deep tech companies.

Dr. Anshul Sharma

received his Ph.D. from Department of Biomedical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, Rupnagar, Punjab, India. He worked in Hysitron Nanotechnology India Pvt. Ltd. as an Application Engineer from 2013 to 2014. Thereafter, he worked as a Lecturer in Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar Regional Campus, Sathiala, Punjab, India from 2015 to 2016. Currently he is working as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Centre for Sensors, Instrumentation and Cyber Physical System Engineering (SeNSE) at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India. His research focuses on analytical modeling, simulation and experimentation for non-destructive testing /non-invasive imaging for characterization of industrial and bio-materials using active infrared thermography.

Ajay Pasupuleti, Ph.D.

Ajay Pasupuleti, Ph.D.,

CEO| Founder, Ooga Technologies

Ajay is an entrepreneur with over 15 years’ experience in image processing, data management and archival technologies. As founder and CEO of Ooga Technologies he strives to bring the worldwide NDT community closer through the Ooga Platform by improving efficiencies, and ensuring knowledge is not lost through attrition and/or retirements. Additionally, he has been on the mission for digitalization of the NDT industry. Through NanoArk Corporation, another company co-founded by Ajay, he has successfully converted 40 million industrial film radiographs to DICONDE compatible digital radiographs and continues to convert 3 million radiographs every year in the aerospace, defense and oil and gas industries. He received his Ph.D., in Electrical and Microsystems Engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester NY in 2006.

Dr. Anshul Sharma,

Dr. Anshul Sharma,
received his Ph.D. from Department of Biomedical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, Rupnagar, Punjab, India. He worked in Hysitron Nanotechnology India Pvt. Ltd. as an Application Engineer from 2013 to 2014. Thereafter, he worked as a Lecturer in Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar Regional Campus, Sathiala, Punjab, India from 2015 to 2016. Currently he is working as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Centre for Sensors, Instrumentation and Cyber Physical System Engineering (SeNSE) at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India. His research focuses on analytical modeling, simulation and experimentation for non-destructive testing /non-invasive imaging for characterization of industrial and bio-materials using active infrared thermography.

Ajay Pasupuleti, Ph.D.,

EO| Founder, Ooga Technologies
Ajay is an entrepreneur with over 15 years’ experience in image processing, data management and archival technologies. As founder and CEO of Ooga Technologies he strives to bring the worldwide NDT community closer through the Ooga Platform by improving efficiencies, and ensuring knowledge is not lost through attrition and/or retirements. Additionally, he has been on the mission for digitalization of the NDT industry. Through NanoArk Corporation, another company co-founded by Ajay, he has successfully converted 40 million industrial film radiographs to DICONDE compatible digital radiographs and continues to convert 3 million radiographs every year in the aerospace, defense and oil and gas industries. He received his Ph.D., in Electrical and Microsystems Engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester NY in 2006.

Dr. Nishal Ramadas

Dr. Nishal Ramadas is a highly experienced engineer working in the field of ultrasonic instrumentation, with a special interest towards developing advance transducers/systems with predictive analytics capabilities. Nishal recently founded two start-ups Azeriri Pvt. Ltd. (an ultrasonics transducer/system OEM in Chennai, India) and Hy-Met Limited (developing instrumentation/software solutions to enable energy transition in the UK).

Nishal previously held leadership roles at Elster Metering Limited/ Honeywell, in the UK, Germany & Belgium. During his time in industry, Nishal was also an honorary visiting academic & a Marie Curie Research Fellow at University of Warwick, UK (2011-2021). Prior to this, Nishal held post-doctoral positions at universities in the UK (Southampton & Strathclyde-Glasgow) and started his career as an Associate Systems Engineer at Tata Infotech Limited (Bangalore). He holds a bachelor’s degree in “Medical Electronics” from Bangalore University, MSc/PhD in EEE from the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, UK) and PG Diploma in Management/Administration from Warwick Business School (Coventry, UK).

Dr. Surendra Singh

As the R&D Staff Engineer in Materials Engineering at Honeywell Aerospace, Phoenix, AZ; Dr. Surendra
Singh leads NDE research programs and creation of the global footprint for strategic planning, in addition to serving
as a principle technical contributor, focal point for collaborative research, and as industry liaison. While working
concurrently on a whole gamut of topics, his main goal is to address the inadequate inspection capabilities of NDE
when studying the complex process physics and tuning the materials state at both micro- (i.e., local) and macro-scale
(i.e., global) to the desired results, such as to build a multi-functional part with agile scalability.
During his 40 years+ career in many industries, Dr. Singh has always enjoyed creative designing and using
NDE sensors to study the unique problems that often require unconventional solutions. He has dedicated almost half
of his career to Honeywell supporting over 25 NDE funded programs. While doing so, Dr. Singh has enjoyed learning
and sharing knowledge with others and has published over 150 papers and secured over 20 patents and trade secrets
since his Ph.D. in 1982 from JNU, New Delhi, India. Additionally, he represents Honeywell and its NDE interests
within ASTM and ASNT in various roles, such as ASNT Technical Fellow, Technical Associate Editor for Materials
Evaluation, and Chair /Vice Chair in subcommittees.
In the last decade, Dr. Singh’s research interests shifted entirely to emerging technologies (namely, competitive
intelligence, leveraging the opportunities by laying out a strategy for assessing and developing cultural intelligence,
using digitization, digital twins, regenerative design, AI, ML, and man-machine learning (MML) for Next Generation
NDE, Smart NDE and sustained technologies landscape and scouting). This is largely due to the inspections
performance-based global trends because of materials science and manufacturing advances. This helps both NDE
practitioners and researchers remain relevant to the current business inspection-needs.
The core objective of the talk is to stimulate interdisciplinary scientific discourse on the interpretation of
sustainable production and the role of digital twins. We are aware that we are addressing some aspects of Next Gen
NDE (aka Smart NDE) that may only become feasible in the distant future despite the challenges due to technical or
business and workforce.
Outside his regular job at Honeywell, he is committed to serve the local community helping needy folks in
different ways, pursuing hobbies of gardening, jogging, playing soccer and spending time with families. He and his
wife (writer for a local newspaper) are blessed with three children who practice in specialties of medicine. They have
seven grandchildren from 5 year to 20 years old. All of these nourish Dr. Singh’s desire to learn new technologies and
take on more challenges. Instead of accepting the current practices, Dr. Singh pushes past the common inspection
challenges for breakthrough and improvements

Dr. Venugopal Manoharan

Venugopal. Manoharan is currently working as Principal Technologist at VisiConsult -Xray systems & solutions. Prior to join VisiConsult, He worked as Senior Scientist at GE Research for 19 years, scientific officer at Advanced Fuel Fabrication Facility, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) and Division of Post Irradiation Examination and NDT development, Indira Gandhi Center for atomic research for 13 years. He has more than 35 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.

ASNT Level-III certification in RT, IR, UT, PT and ET
His area of interest is Industrial Radiography, Digital x-ray imaging, Positron annihilation spectroscopy, Modelling & Simulation, quantitative radiography Model based PoD , Applications of Micro and Nano x-ray computed tomography , Pipeline and pressure vessels integrity and Training& Certification in NDE.

He has more than 15 issued patents and 30 technical publications in national and international journals & conferences

He is also Chief Controller Examinations for National Certification Board, ISNT since Jan, 2022.

Dr. 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. Iikka Virkkunen

Iikka Virkkunen doctorated from Helsinki University of technology (now part of Aalto University) on 2001. He founded Trueflaw ltd. The same year, and has over 20 years of experience on working with NDT reliability.
Trueflaw started out making cracks and cracked samples for NDT training and performance demonstration samples.
Now the services include probability of detection (POD) services and automated flaw detection systems with machine learning (ML). At the same time, Virkku
His research topics include NDT reliability, materials degradation, fatigue and residual stress measurements. He is currently focusing on development and adoption of machine learning for NDE

Dr. C.V. Krishnamurthy, IIT Madras, Chennai

C.V.Krishnamurthy is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at IIT Madras and is also affiliated to the Centre for Nondestructive Evaluation (CNDE) at IIT Madras. He obtained his PhD from IIT Madras in 1989. In the past, he had participated in contract research for the Indian Navy developing and delivering a product for on-board tactical use of RADARs. While at CNDE, he developed quantitative ultrasonic transducer models and had participated in the ultrasound benchmark problems set by the World Federation of NDE Centers.

He has developed a computed point spread function approach for ultrasonic imaging applications. He has supervised the development of ray-tracing models and FDTD models for ultrasound propagation which has formed the basis for a commercial product that is currently available. He is currently the Principal Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator in several research projects funded by DST, DAE, ADA, ISRO and DRDO organizations.

e was involved in the IGCAR funded project on the development of an Under-Sodium Imaging scheme for reactor vessel inspection. With BRNS funding, he has initiated the development of quantitative models to characterize elastic wave propagation and heat diffusion in polycrystalline metals and heterogenous media. As a Co-PI of the Indo-German program, AMPLAST, he is currently involved in the development of non-contact techniques for determination of temperature and emissivity of materials at high temperatures using infrared radiation. The on-going project with ASL (DRDO) involves the development of capacitance imaging and free space technique for material characterization. He has co-guided an MS thesis on new designs for ground penetrating radar as part of interdisciplinary program at IIT Madras.

His current research focus is in the development of experimental and computational techniques for electromagnetic nondestructive evaluation of material and defect characteristics. He actively collaborates with the Department of Engineering Design on the development of electromagnetic non-destructive evaluation techniques.
He has written a series of articles on advanced non-destructive imaging techniques under the feature HORIZON for the Journal for Nondestructive Evaluation (ISNT).

He has over 120 technical publications and has presented papers at several national and international conferences.
He is a Life Fellow of the Indian Society of Nondestructive Testing (ISNT).

He is a co-recipient of prestigious DRDO Academy Excellence Award for ‘Outstanding and Internationally recognized contribution in the field of NDT in collaboration with DRDO Laboratories leading to innovative and implementable products for DRDO Stakeholders’ as Head, Center for Nondestructive Evaluation, IIT Madras (Award for year 2015, received in April 2017).

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.

Dr. Prafull Sharma, CorrosionRADAR Ltd

Dr Prafull Sharma currently serves as Chief Technology Officer of UK based CorrosionRADAR Ltd which is bringing innovative corrosion monitoring technologies using Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). CorrosionRADAR invented a predictive CUI monitoring system which is gaining global traction addressing a big issue for the industry. Prafull Sharma brings vast industrial experience specially in digitalisation of corrosion management on which there are several inventions to his credit. Prior to his current role, Prafull worked for General Electric R&D where he developed several sensing and NDT technologies. Prafull did his PhD from Cranfield University UK. He has over fifteen years experience in industrial technology development specially for asset integrity and automation in the Oil & Gas industry. He is also credited with over fifteen international patents and innovations.

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.

Dr. Daniel Kanzler

1. Dr. Daniel Kanzler is working in the area of reliability evaluation of non-destructive testing systems for over 15 years.

He started his career at GE Sensing and Inspection Technologies in the field of ultrasonic testing, while completing his diploma and master thesis. Later on, he continued his work at the Federal Institute of Material Testing and Research, Berlin. He was part of the Radiology department, where he finished his PhD in 2016. In 2016 he founded the consulting company “Applied Validation of NDT” and supports international companies in the topic of “NDT/E Reliability” Different publications, his diploma as well as his master and PhD thesis considered different perspectives of testing systems in the field of ultrasonic testing, radiographic testing, visual testing and eddy current testing. One of his accomplished goals have been the probabilistic evaluation due to realistic defects with multiparametric influence analyses and the inclusion of economical KPIs.

He holds the NDT Master degree “level 3” in ultrasonic, radiographic and eddy current testing (ISO 9712).
In 2012, he started working as a lecturer of DGZfP (German Society of Non-destructive Testing), for different universities (e.g. at TU Munich and TH Aschaffenburg) as well as being a tutor for the European American and International Workshop on reliability of NDT/E. Since 2017, he is also leading the ICNDT specialist group on NDT Reliability.

Currently he is part of the group, developing a new standard in the reliability and new approaches for the future of NDE (NDE4.0) in Germany and in Europe. In this project he started with a group of other experts, is working together with different industrial sectors to introduce reliability concepts for meaningful use of NDT.

Benjamin Ducharne

1 ELyTMaX UMI 3757, CNRS – Université de Lyon – Tohoku University, International Joint Unit, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.

2 Laboratoire de Génie Electrique et Ferroélectricité – INSA de Lyon, Villeurbanne, France.
The magnetization processes have been used for years to observe mechanical or microstructural properties in ferromagnetic steel. The usual techniques rely on standard specimens, time-consuming experimental campaigns, and rejection thresholds. These demanding methods give limited satisfaction, and controllers are looking for alternative solutions.
For physical reasons, every magnetization mechanism is characterized by its specific sensitivity to a given property to be evaluated. An ideal way to monitor this property is to develop an experimental situation where the most responsive magnetization mechanism can be isolated and easily monitored.

This presentation introduces the non-destructive testing methods based on the magnetization mechanisms. Then, the targeted properties, i.e., the specific information required by the industrials or non-destructive testing end-users, are described. It is followed by the magnetization mechanisms definition and their associated specific experimental situations and indicators. Finally, correlations are proposed, such as discussions and conclusions.

Benjamin Ducharne graduated from University Claude Bernard Lyon I in electrical engineering in 2001 with an M.S. degree and a Ph.D. degree in 2003. In 2004, he took a postdoctoral position at Institut Montefiore, Liège, Belgium. In 2005, he got a position as an associate professor at INSA, Lyon, France. In 2018-19, he was a visiting scholar and a mid-term lecturer at Purdue University (IN, USA). In September 2020, he joined ELyTMaX (Tohoku University, Japan) as a full-time researcher. His main research interests are magnetic non-destructive testing, ferromagnetic and ferroelectric materials, hysteresis modeling, fractional operators, and multiphysics coupling.

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.

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