Dr. Shyamsunder Mandayam is an innovator, researcher, technologist and trainer with deep domain expertise in the multidisciplinary area of Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE) of materials, components and structures. He is currently the Chief Scientific Advisor for Azeriri Pvt Ltd and a Mentor for Teralumen Solutions Pvt Ltd. During his 36 years long career at Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam, India and GE Research, Bangalore, India, he has worked extensively in the development of new and advanced NDE/Inspection techniques, driving the vision and preparing the roadmaps for next generation technologies in NDE for metallic and non¬metallic materials (composites) related to aerospace, nuclear, power, renewables and oil & gas industries. He has worked on several cutting edge domains and technologies like eddy current array sensors, POD, nonlinear ultrasound, positron annihilation, microwave and terahertz NDE, pipeline inspection, automation, robotics and lifing of components and structures. Currently, he is pioneering the adoption of NDE 4.0 in the industry through digital transformation (Robotics, Drones, IoT, Digital Twins, Analytics using AI and ML, AR and VR). He has 12 patents and 160+ papers in various journals, books and proceedings and delivered 90+ invited talks. Dr. Mandayam has received several prestigious awards like National NDT award for R&D, GE India’s JRD Tata award for excellence, GE Whitney award among others. He is a Honorary Fellow of ISNT and a Life Member of ASNT, MSI, AMSI, InSIS.Dr. Sarmishtha Palit Sagar is a Senior Principal Scientist and Group leader of NDE & MM group at CSIR-National Metallurgical Laboratory, Jamshedpur, India. She has over 23 years of experience in the area of Non-destructive Evaluation and Sensor development. She pursued her B.Tech. and M.Tech. in Electronics & Communication from the Institute of Radio Physics & Electronics, University of Calcutta and Ph.D. from Jadavpur University, India. Her research interest lies in ultrasonic & advanced ultrasonic, signal & image processing, sensor & device development for Industrial applications. Currently, she is involved in developing AI and IOT based systems for life assessment of components. Dr. Sagar has worked as a visiting Scientist at Fraunhofer Institute for Non-destructive Testing, Saarbreucken, Germany from 2000-2002 and at Pennsylvania State University, USA in 2009. She has 70+ publications in journals of national and international repute, 13 patents and 7 copyrights to her credit. She has guided several Master students and 3 Ph.D. students. She is the recipient of several prestigious awards like National NDE Award for International Recognition, National NDE award in R&D, Raman Research Fellowship award by CSIR, Lady Engineer Award by Institute of Engineers, “Tata Innovista 2015” Regional award in “Promising Innovation in the Core processes” category.
