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Sajeesh Kumar Babu
| Dr Sajeesh Kumar Babu has 28 years of international experience in energy, refineries and petrochemical, oil & gas, building and construction industry in the area of quality assurance and control, NDT, condition monitoring and diagnostics testing, testing and inspection, HSE and business development. He currently holds a position of QHSE Director - Rotary Group, Singapore, and Advisory Chairman - ANSA Holdings Pte Ltd.
He is currently the Chairman of the International Committee for NDT (ICNDT), Vienna, and the President of the Non-Destructive Testing Society, Singapore.
He worked considerably for the promotion of harmonisation in NDT personnel certification worldwide, specifically to ISO 9712 standards and developed recognition of global human resources in NDT.
Dr Babu obtained his Engineering Doctorate from the City University of Hong Kong, Master of Engineering from the University of South Australia, Master of Renewal Energy from REI, UK, and Bachelor of Engineering (Construction) from Griffith Australia.
He is a Chartered Engineer from Singapore and the United Kingdom and is a Registered Professional Engineer from Hong Kong respectively. He is a qualified ISO 9712 and ASNT NDT Level 3.
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Iain Baillie
| Iain graduated from Edinburgh Napier University in 2001 with a degree in Applied Physics with Computing.
He conducted research on laser ultrasonic inspection of hot, moving steel while pursuing his Engineering Doctorate at The University of Warwick. At this time, he was a full-time company employee at British Steel’s Technology Centre in Teesside.
As a Chartered Engineer, Iain has chaired BINDT’s NDT Technical Committee.
He joined Rolls-Royce Submarines in 2009 and before assuming the role of UK Laboratory Manager for NDT in 2013 for aerospace.
Currently, Iain serves as the Chief of Engineering Resource Strategy, overseeing outsourcing initiatives. His contributions have been recognised through his Presidency of BINDT in 2021 and appointment as a BINDT Honorary Fellow. He was also appointed Visiting Professor at the University of Huddersfield in 2023.
Iain led BINDT and Rolls-Royce’s Apprenticeship scheme as the ‘Lead Employer’ for a number of years, ensuring 100s of people gained recognised qualifications in the NDT and CM profession.
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Mehdi Behzad
| Mehdi Behzad is currently a professor in the department of Mechanical Engineering at Sharif University of Technology where he joined after graduating from the University of New South Wales (UNSW), in 1995. During the last 28 years he has conducted more than 500 condition monitoring (CM) and vibration analysis projects in a variety of industries such as oil, gas, petrochemistry, power plants, steel, cement, cupper, wood and paper as CEO of Behravesh Vibration Engineering.
Mehdi is the chair and founder of the annual Condition Monitoring and Fault Diagnosis (CMFD) Conference since 2007. He has published more than 160 journal articles in CM, rotor dynamics, ball bearings remaining useful estimation using AI. He was selected as one of the top distinguished scientists of Iran for his joint academic industrial activities in 2020. He has supervised more than 20 PhD and 40 MSc theses. In CM he has carried out many experiments in order to predict the ball bearing failure using vibration and acoustics signal. He is also the course director of MSc in maintenance and condition monitoring engineering.
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Rafał Burdzik
| Rafał Burdzik is a professor in the Faculty of Transport and Aviation Engineering at Silesian University of Technology, Poland, and visiting lecturer at many European universities with more than twenty years of transport research experience. He is an author or co-author of books and more than 450 scientific papers, and an editorial board member for several high-level scientific journals and active member of numerous scientific associations, editorial boards and committees. He manages numerous innovative and implementation research projects in partnership with industrial entities. He is a well-recognised international expert in transport, mechanical engineering, vibroacoustic, machine diagnostic, transport safety and environmental issues.
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Daryl Hickey
| Daryl is the Principal Reliability Engineer within the Performance, Reliability and Optimisation team at Natural Power. His primary focus is the delivery of predictive maintenance strategies to both the Natural Power Servicing department and to the wider Natural Power client base. Utilising a combination of skills in computer programming, signal processing and statistical analysis, Daryl delivers high quality SCADA and CMS reporting and remote monitoring services to clients. These services enable a highly beneficial assessment of the reliability, productivity, performance and efficiency of a wind farm.
Daryl’s credentials include a PhD in Mechanical Engineering awarded by the University of Sheffield, Chartered Engineer registered with the Institute of Mechanical Engineers and accreditation to ISO 18436 for vibration analysis, machinery condition monitoring and diagnostics.
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Muhammad Khan
| Dr Khan is the Acting Head of Centre and Reader in Damage Mechanics at Cranfield University. He has over 22 years' experience in damage diagnosis and prognosis in structures and machine components. His past research work was sponsored by General Dynamics, US Marines, US Navy, UK Army, Atkins, QinetiQ, EPSRC, EU, HEC Pakistan, MoD and Strategic Research Funding Malaysia. He has published more than 140 research articles with a successful supervision of 20 doctoral students. He is currently the course director of MSc in Maintenance Engineering and Asset Management. He is the recipient of the school’s Outstanding Contribution Award in the category of best teacher and supervisor at Cranfield University. He is a member of the university course review committee and a member of the working group on research culture. Before joining Cranfield, he worked as an academic in Malaysia, KSA and Pakistan. He is a Chartered Engineer from the UK Engineering Council, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK, and a Fellow of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), UK. He is also an active member of the condition monitoring and structural health monitoring committees of the British Institute of Non-Destructive Testing (BINDT). He is an active member of the editorial and the review panels of several internationally reputed journals and conferences.
Dr Khan received his doctorate in machine health diagnosis from the University of Manchester in 2008 and completed his post-doctoral research in damage diagnosis in 2011. His current research interest includes damage mechanics in structures and machine components, modelling asset life and relation with operational parameters, non-invasive techniques for asset health monitoring and smart materials and surfaces.
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Jérôme Lacaille
| Jérôme Lacaille has a PhD from École Normale Supérieure and holds a habilitation in mathematics. He served as a lecturer at the École Normale Supérieure before co-founding the startup Miriad Technology, specialising in aeronautics. His professional journey led him to the semiconductor industry with PDF Solution and he was finally recruited as an expert by SNECMA (now Safran Aircraft Engines) in 2007. At Safran, he founded the DataLab in 2015, overseeing a team of PhD students and currently leading the company's mathematical network.
In addition to his corporate responsibilities, Jérôme serves as an associate professor at Université Sorbonne Paris Nord and École Normale Supérieure de Paris-Saclay. He is also a member of the scientific council of the Agence pour les Mathématiques pour l'Industrie et la Société (AMIES) and previously held the position of vice-president at the Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles (SMAI).
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Zhongqing Su
| Professor Zhongqing Su is the Chair Professor of Intelligent Structures and Systems and Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). He is the current Editor-in-Chief of the journal Ultrasonics and holds the Changjiang Chair Professorship. He is an elected Distinguished Fellow of the International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration (IIAV). He has also been the Vice President of the Hong Kong Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics since 2023. Professor Su earned his PhD from the School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering at The University of Sydney, Australia, before he joined PolyU. His research interests span the area of ultrasonics, structural health monitoring (SHM), non-destructive evaluation (NDE), wave propagation, intelligent systems, and advanced composites. Apart from his key editorial commitment as the Editor-in-Chief of Ultrasonics, Professor Su has served as the Associate Editor of nine key international journals in the field, including Journal of Sound and Vibration, Structural Health Monitoring: An International Journal, and ASME Journal of NDE. Professor Su was the Chair of the 7th Asia-Pacific Workshop on SHM (Hong Kong, 2018), the SPIE Conference on Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems 2023 (USA, 2023), and the SPIE Conference on Health Monitoring of Structural and Biological Systems (USA, 2024).
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Dong Wang
| Dong Wang received his PhD degree from the City University of Hong Kong, China, in 2015. He was a Senior Research Assistant, a Postdoctoral Fellow and a Research Fellow with the City University of Hong Kong.
He is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, where he is also with the State Key Laboratory of Mechanical System and Vibration. His research interests include sparsity and complexity measures, statistical learning, probability models, signal processing, statistical process control, operation research, prognostics and health management, condition monitoring and fault diagnosis and non-destructive testing. Dr Wang is a Topical Editor for IEEE Sensors Journal and an Associate Editor for Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Measurement and Journal of Dynamics, Monitoring and Diagnostics.
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