Dear Friends
ISNT plays an important role in the promotion and development of NDE, and will continue to do so. The Annual Conference and Exhibition of ISNT is the pinnacle of its yearly activities, the most distinguished and far-reaching event.
It gives me immense pleasure that the Annual Conference and Exhibition of ISNT, NDE 2022, is now back on its rightful course in the physical form. NDE 2022 is being held at the Mahatma Mandir Convention & Exhibition Centre in Gandhinagar, Gujarat from 24 to 26 November 2022. The city has good connectivity with Ahmedabad which is having international connectivity too, and not very far from a lot of established industries.
Incidentally, this is also the year when we are celebrating 75 years of India’s freedom, the ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’.
It will indeed be exciting to have this annual mega-event in the physical form, and I am sure all of us were looking forward to meeting one another on this grand platform after a long gap. The gap due to the pandemic, nonetheless, was filled up with two well organized successful online seminars, exhibiting the never-say-die spirit of the ISNT.
The yearly conference is an opportunity for all. It involves technicians, managers, service personnel, buyers, sellers, students, and in short, anyone connected to the field of NDE. It showcases the latest technology, equipment and happenings in the field of NDE. It is a place to share knowledge, to network. The eager NDE person within you will be treated to a lavish feast of events which includes the Inauguration Talk, Exhibition Stalls, Plenary Sessions, Invited Talks, Quiz Competitions, Cultural Programs, Special Sessions with industrial interactions, and of course the Preconference Tutorials on carefully selected subjects. This is a place where NDE evolves.
We, as the NDE community, have always been setting higher goals for ourselves, excelling continually. I am sure with this ever-elevating quality, this year’s seminar will surpass the previous ones.
I invite all of you on behalf of the ISNT to visit, participate, enrich and be a part of this seminar and its grand success.
Diwakar Joshi
President, ISNT
C P Madhusudan
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.
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Dr. Ripi Singh is now a purposeful innovation coach with a
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.
Mechanical Engineer from one of the Prestigious Institute PSG College of Technology,
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Prof. Prabhu Rajagopal
Prof. Dr.-Ing. (apl.) Ute Rabe
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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
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
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 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.
Dr. Vanita Arora
Assistant Professor, Electronics and Communication Engineering,
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Mechanical Engineer from one of the Prestigious Institute PSG College of Technology,
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. Debasish
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 M. Arumugam is currently Scientist -H and General
Dr. Anshul Sharma
Ajay Pasupuleti, Ph.D.,
Ajay Pasupuleti, Ph.D.,
As the R&D Staff Engineer in Materials Engineering at Honeywell Aerospace, Phoenix, AZ; Dr. Surendra
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.
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.
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.
1. Dr. Daniel Kanzler is working in the area of reliability evaluation of non-destructive testing systems for over 15 years.
1 ELyTMaX UMI 3757, CNRS – Université de Lyon – Tohoku University, International Joint Unit, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.