Dr Roman Gr Maev
| Dr. Roman Gr. Maev is the founding Director-General of the Institute for Diagnostic Imaging Research at the University of Windsor - a multi-disciplinary, collaborative research and innovation consortium established with the goal to create a leading S&T centre in imaging research in Southwest Ontario. The Institute was formed in 2008 by the Ministry of Research and Innovation, which provided an initial research investment.
In 1995 Dr. Maev was appointed a Full Faculty Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Windsor in Canada when he moved to Canada in the frame of the Intergovernmental Russian-Canadian Exchange Research Program. In 2002 Dr. Maev became the DaimlerChrysler/NSERC Industrial Research Chair. In 2007 was granted the title of University Distinguished Professor.
In 2004, based on an initiative by Chrysler, a new Canadian start-up high-tech company “Tessonics Corporation” was created. Its main mission is the commercialization of research products developed by Dr. Maev’s R&D team at the University of Windsor. In 2009, Tessonics received Ontario Premier’s Award as a Best Innovative Company. Dr. Maev is providing a leading technical role in this new high-tech enterprise. In 2018 this company posted sales at above $20 million annually for automotive, aviation and construction industries and established branches in twelve countries worldwide, and is well recognized in the US, Latin and Central America, Japan, UK, Germany, China, South Africa, and is a registered supplier for Chrysler, Ford, BMW, Porsche, FIAT, Toyota, Nisan, Magna, etc.
In 2018, Dr. Maev was appointed as the Director of the newly established high-tech startup company ONtech Rapid Coatings Inc. (ONtech), which is a joint venture between Enwin Energy Inc. and Tessonics Inc. ONtech is the direct result of a research partnership between ENWIN Utilities Ltd. and the University of Windsor’s Institute for Diagnostic Imaging Research (IDIR). The business venture received approval from Windsor’s City Council and was granted a business operating license on November 20, 2018. ONtech will play an important role in exploring the applications of its technology across a broad range of industries, including the utility industry, automotive and aeronautic manufacturing.
In order to support the academic part of this initiative, the original partner organizations, including IDIR had been awarded $5.5 million by NSERC to help solve additional real-world industry problems. Since beginning his academic research in Canada Dr. Maev has received over 36$ million in support from various industrial partners and government agencies.
Dr. Maev’s research interests include theoretical fundamentals of physical acoustics, ultrasonic and nonlinear acoustical imaging, nanostructural properties of advanced materials, additive manufacturing, and biomaterials and their analysis, as well as art analysis. He is the author of 6 monographs, editor of 7 books, has published over 350 peer-reviewed items, and holds 30 international patents. Dr. Roman Maev has won many national and international awards for his innovations, research discoveries and inventions. He is a Fellow of IEEE and Distinguished IEEE Lecturer, as well as a Fellow of the British Institute of NDT, the Canadian Institute of NDE and RONKDT.
The success of Dr. Maev and his Canadian research institute demonstrates the uniqueness of this research and the growing successful relationship between industry and academia. These partnerships are important for the future progress of academic and applied fields.
The extraordinarily diverse range of disciplines encompassed by Dr. Maev includes theoretical fundamentals of physical acoustics, experimental research in ultrasonic and nonlinear acoustical imaging, and the theory of propagation of waves through layered structures.
Dr. Maev was among the first who started developing advanced multi-modal nondestructive methods for analyzing fine art and the culture and historical heritage objects. He supervised students in this field and has many publications in this area. During the last ten years, he was invited to be Guest Editor of a few Special Issues of BINDT Journal INSIGHT related to Art and Culture Heritage topics. Since 2005, Dr. Maev is a Member of the Organizing Committee of the regular International Art Symposium, which was held in Italy, Israel, Spain, etc. Starting in 2016 Dr. Maev has been a Chairman of the ICNDT International Specialist Groups “NDT for ART and Culture Heritage”. In 2016, Dr. Maev initiated a new international conference “Analyzing Art: New Technologies-New Applications”, which was first held in London, UK, second in 2018 in St. Petersburg, Russia, both were a great success. The third meeting of this conference is planned for Firenze, Italy. Dr. Maev and his team widely apply advanced methods and instrumentations for their research including IR, Thermal and Microwave imaging, High-resolution Ultrasonic and Air-Coupling Acoustic Imaging, X-ray and XRF-Spectrometry, the Holographic Radar Imaging systems for diagnostic of civil constructions, surveying the culture heritage objects.
During the last ten years, Dr. Maev and his team have successfully collaborated with various global art and culture heritage institutions, such as English Heritage, National Trust, Hamilton Kerr Institute, Cambridge, the Department of Art Conservation & Technology at the Courtauld Institute, London, National Gallery, as well as some art auction houses, like Bonham’s, McDougall, Sotheby’s, etc. He was also involved in various sculpture restoration projects in the UK as well as in Canada, Germany, Russia, etc.
Dr. Roman Maev is also a member of the Rotary Club of Windsor (1918) since 1997. For his activities in the Club’s various programs, in 2009 Dr. Maev was recognized as Rotary International Paul Harris Fellow.
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| Dr Makoto Ochiai | Makoto Ochiai is now working as a general manager of Energy Systems R&D Center in Toshiba energy systems and solutions corporation, Japan. Also, he is a vice presidents of Japanese Society of Non-Destructive Inspection (JSNDI). He received a B. Eng and M. Eng. degrees in instrumentation engineering from Keio University in 1989 and 1991, respectively. He then started his career in Toshiba Corporation in Yokohama, Japan as a researcher in instrumentation, inspection and measurement technology particularly for power plants. From 2001 to 2002, he was sent as a visiting researcher to National Research Council of Canada in Montreal, Quebec and studied fundamental of laser-ultrasonics. In 2009, he received a Ph.D from Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan by his study of laser-ultrasonic NDT technologies. After 2011, he is a chief scientist in Power and Industrial Systems R&D Center, Toshiba and also he has been sincerely served as a technological leader of many on-site restoration projects for Fukushima-Daiichi Nuclear Power Stations. He has been a lecturer on ultrasonic NDT in Tohoku university and Osaka university in Japan for these 10 years. From 2013 up to now, he is involved in the technological administration of the R&D Center in Toshiba and engaged in the management of JSNDI.
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Professor Robert A Smith | Robert Smith is Professor of NDT and High Value Manufacturing at the University of Bristol. He studied Physics at the University of Cambridge, and Applied Acoustics at Kings College, London, with a PhD from the University of Nottingham on the ultrasonic 3D characterisation of fibre-reinforced composites. He spent 6 years at the National Physical Laboratory and then moved to the Non-destructive Evaluation (NDE) Group at the Royal Aerospace Establishment, Farnborough in 1989. After several years as the Technical Fellow in NDE at RAE, DERA and then QinetiQ Ltd, he became a QinetiQ Senior Fellow in 2011, moving to the University of Bristol in April 2013 to commence a 5-year EPSRC Fellowship in Manufacturing entitled: “NDT for High Value Manufacturing of Composites”. He has authored over 120 publications, for which he was awarded the John Grimwade Medal in 1995, 2001, 2004, 2008 and 2009, and the Roy Sharpe Prize for 1996 by the British Institute of NDT of which he is an Honorary Fellow and Past President (2015-16). He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, a Chartered Physicist and Chartered Engineer.
In 2018, Robert was appointed Director of the UK Research Centre for NDE (RCNDE), a consortium of six universities and over 50 industrial companies, which receives part-funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). In this role and as a member of the BINDT Council, he has been gathering information on future requirements and has discussed strategic NDT leadership with various professional engineering institutes including BINDT. He presented a keynote lecture at the ASNT Research Symposium on this subject in April 2019 and was able to tackle the international nature of these requirements. He is the inaugural Chair of the newly formed BINDT Advisory Group on Strategic NDT Leadership. This group has a remit to establish an NDT Leadership Forum to meet the requirements identified. |
