Topic of Invited talk

1. Recent developments on Ultrasonic & Electromagnetic NDE-modeling and Experimental Investigations

2. SHM-Advanced Diagnosis Techniques using Ultrasonic Guided Waves Nonlinear Acoustics & THz Radiation

Biography

Professor Kundu received his bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur in 1979, MS and PhD from UCLA in 1980 and 1983, respectively. He joined the University of Arizona in 1983 as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to Full Professor in 1994. Main focus of his research is nondestructive evaluation and structural health monitoring applied to engineering and biological materials. He has supervised 30 Ph.D. students, 20 MS students and published 270 technical papers with 130 journal publications. His citation index, h-index and g-index are over 1350, 20 and 30, respectively.He has also published 2 text books, edited 5 research monographs and 17 conference proceedings. He is a fellow of ASME, ASCE and SPIE. For his research he received the Humboldt Research Prize (the Senior Scientist Award) from Germany in 2003 and Humboldt Fellowship in 1989 and 1996. In 2012 he was awarded the NDE Life Time Achievement Award from SPIE (Society of Optical Engineering) and in 2008 he received the Structural Health Monitoring Person of the Year award.He also received a number of Best Paper awards, plenary and keynote talk invitations and Invited professorship from foreign universities.