Dr. Saptarshi Mukherjee, Lawrence Livermore National Labs

Dr. Saptarshi Mukherjee received the B.Tech. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, India, in 2013, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA, in 2018. He joined as a Postdoctoral Research Staff member and is currently working as an Applied Electromagnetics Research Scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). Dr. Mukherjee’s research interests include nondestructive evaluation methods in advanced manufacturing, computational geosciences, imaging and inverse problems and high-power microwave devices. He was nominated as one of the 2023 IEEE Antenna & Propagation Society Young Professional Ambassadors and currently serving as the chair of the American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT) Research Council Program Committee, and chair of the ASNT Golden Gate Section. He is the chair of the ASNT Research Symposium, chair of the Electromagnetic Nondestructive Evaluation workshop at LLNL and a session chair for 10 international conferences. He received the National Science Foundation International Research Fellowship in 2015, ASNT Graduate Fellowship award in 2017, ASNT Travel Grant award in 2018, Atmospheric Earth & Energy Sciences Stand-out awards in 2021 and 2022 and Physical & Life Sciences External Leadership Recognition award and ASNT New NDT Professional Award in 2023.