Mr Balamurugan Srinivasagan, is heading Non-Destructive Testing and Sensors Research Group in R&D, Tata Steel Ltd, Jamshedpur, who has been working in the area of non-destructive evaluation for the last 20 years. His areas of research interests include Non-destructive evaluation in process control, product quality assurance and predictive maintenance for steel industries. He joined in Tata Steel R&D in 2009.
He did his undergraduate in B.E., – Mechanical from Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai in 2002 and then he completed his graduation in Non-Destructive Testing from NIT, Tiruchirappalli in 2004.
His experience includes five years as a lead engineer in ALSTOM for condition assessment of critical components in various power plants.
He was the recipient of “National NDT award for excellence in Industrial Applications in 2018” from Indian Society for Non-Destructive Testing (ISNT). Also, he was consistently recognised by “TATA INNOVISTA” a major event for recognition of innovations in the companies across the TATA group, where he won two awards in 2022”, and a Regional Award in 2015.
He has published more than 15 technical papers in national and international journals /conferences, filed 15+ patents in the area of Non-destructive evaluation.