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authored more than 250 technical articles on various topics in Mechanical
and Biomechanical Engineering, many addressing some aspect of safety.
He is a 50 year member of the ASME and a Fellow of the Society of
Automotive Engineers.

Track 17: NDE, Diagnosis, and Prognosis
17-12-1: PLENARY LECTURE
Wednesday, November 16, 10:30AM–12:15PM
222C, Phoenix Convention Center
Ultrasonic and electromagnetic waves for non-destructive evaluation
and structural health monitoring
(IMECE2016-68878)
Prof. Tribikram Kundu
University of Arizona
Biography: Professor Kundu received his bachelor degree in Mechanical
Engineering from IIT Kharagpur, where he was the winner of the President
of India Gold Medal (PGM). He went to UCLA for graduate study. After
completing MS and PhD and winning the outstanding graduate student
award from UCLA he joined the University of Arizona as an Assistant
Professor, then promoted to Full Professor and was then distinguished as
a Faculty Fellow in the College of Engineering. To date he has supervised
34 PhD and 23 MS students, published 7 books, 15 book chapters and 315
technical papers; 156 of those in refereed scientific journals. According to
Google Scholar his h-index is 38, with close to 5000 total citations. He has
won the Humboldt Research Prize (Senior Scientist Award) and Humboldt
Fellowship awards from Germany, 2012 NDE Life Time Achievement
Award from SPIE (the International Society for Optics and Photonics), 2015
Research Award for Sustained Excellence from ASNT (American Society
for Nondestructive Testing), 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award and 2008
Person of the Year Award from the Structural Health Monitoring journal. He
received a number Invited Professorships from France, Germany, Sweden,
Switzerland, Spain, South Korea, Poland, China, Japan and India. He is
Fellow of 5 professional societies - ASME, ASCE, SPIE, ASNT and ASA. He
is the Editor-in-Chief of one journal and Associate Editor of 4 more
journals. He has delivered a number of plenary and keynote talks in
scientific conferences in USA and abroad.

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