Dr Shyamsunder Mandayam
CURRENT POSITIONS
Vice President, Indian Society of Nondestructive Testing (ISNT)
Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, Azeriri Pvt Ltd, Chennai
Mentor, TeraLumen Solutions Ltd, Chennai
Co-Founder, nAurava LLC, USA
Co-Founder, InMatIn, Bangalore
Professional Director, Pallakki NDT Excellence Centre, Bangalore
Principal Consultant, Innomantra Consulting Pvt Ltd, Bangalore
Technical Advisor, National Research and Design Forum, Bangalore
Professor-of-Practice, VELTECH, Chennai
Member, Research Advisory Board, Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore
Former Principal Scientist / Quality & Innovation Leader at GE Global Research (2000 to 2020)
Former Senior Scientific Officer @IGCAR, Kalpakkam (1984 to 2000)
Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, TRIZ Level 3 expert, ASNT NDT Level 3 (ET & MT).
A B.E (Metallurgy) from MS University Baroda and a Ph.D from IIT, Kharagpur, he is a 40 years
experienced innovator, researcher, technologist and trainer with deep domain expertise in the
multidisciplinary area of Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE) of materials, components and structures
as applied to Aerospace, Oil & Gas, Power, Nuclear, Renewables, Transportation and other
industries. Having worked at two premier institutions – IGCAR, Kalpakkam and GE Research,
Bangalore during his entire career, his passion lies in synergizing between domains and adjacencies
to enable best-in-class solutions for challenging industrial problems. He has worked on some of the
most advanced techniques in Electromagnetic, Ultrasound, Infrared Imaging and Radiographic NDE,
and utilized Automation, Analytics and Robotics/Drones for Industrial Inspection. Focus of his work
was in the conceptualization, innovation, development, and transition of novel and Advanced NDE
/ Inspection techniques from laboratory to the factory shopfloor and other field and plant
environments. This enabled better quality control, in-service inspections, structural integrity, and
residual life assessments.
Post his retirement from GE, he is engaged in mentoring, advising, and consulting with several deep
tech start-ups and MSMEs focusing on advanced NDE including Digital Radiography, Air-coupled
Ultrasound, Microwave, Terahertz, and others. He is pioneering the adoption of NDE 4.0 (a subset
of Industry 4.0) and Inspection through digitalization and digital transformation (IoT, Digital Twins,
AR/VR, Analytics using AI and ML, AR/VR, etc). He is passionate about Industry-Academia
interactions and is trying to help promote NDE as a potential career opportunity amongst the
younger generation.
He has 14 US patents and 200+ papers in various journals, books and proceedings and has delivered
100+ invited talks. Received several prestigious awards like ISNT National NDT award for R&D, GE
India’s JRD Tata award for excellence, GE Whitney award to name a few. He is an Honorary Fellow
of ISNT and a Life Member of ASNT, MSI, AMSI, InSIS. He is on the Editorial Board of ISNT’s Journal
of NDE and a Reviewer for several other international journals.