HONORS & AWARDS :

last updated on Nov 12, 2014

Humboldt Research Prize from Germany - also known as the Senior Scientist Award - 2003

Humboldt Fellowship Award from Germany , Sept.1, 1989 - Aug.31, 1990. & July 1, 1996 - March 31, 1997.

NDE Lifetime Achievement Award 2012 from SPIE (the International Society for Optics and Photonics); the award certicate was given in March 2012 at the SPIE's Annual Symposium on Smart Strurctures/NDE

Research Award for Sustained Excellence 2015 from ASNT (The American Society for Nondestructive Testing) in recognition of his outstanding and sustained contributions in NDE/NDT

Structural Health Monitoring Person of the Year Award 2008 - chosen by the Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) Community and SHM journal.

Engineering Faculty Fellow of the University of Arizona - In 2012 the Engineering College of the University of Arizona recognized him as the Engineering Faculty Fellow that comes with a salary raise, similar to Chair Professorships in some other universities. Selected few faculty members are given this distinguished honor. The College of Engineering of the University of Arizona does not have any Chair Professorship but instead has Engineering Research Faculty Fellow and Teaching Faculty Fellow recognitions.

Elected Fellow of ASA (Acoustical Society of America) 2013

Elected Fellow of ASNT (American Society for Nondestructive Testing) 2013

Elected Fellow of SPIE (The International Society for Optics and Photonics, the old name - Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers) 2005

Elected Fellow of ASCE, 2000.

Elected Fellow of ASME, 1999.

Best Paper Award 2004 from SPIE – Received for the paper , "Bio-soft matter imaging and micro-metrology by Phase-sensitive ultrasonic microscopy", by W. Ngwa, W. Grill and T. Kundu presented at the Health Monitoring and Smart Nondestructive Evaluation of Structural and Biological Systems conference at the SPIE's 9 th Annual International Symposium on NDE for Health Monitoring and Diagnostics, March 15-17, 2004, San Diego, California, 2004. The award was formally given at the SPIE's 10 th Annual International Symposium on NDE for Health Monitoring and Diagnostics, in March 2005.

Best Paper Award 2000 from SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering or SPIE's 5 th International Symposium on Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring of Aging Infrastructure, Newport Beach California , March 5-9, 2000. The paper on the near Lamb mode imaging co-authored by Kundu, Potel and de Belleval was selected as the best paper of the four NDE conferences combined. These four conferences are, "Nondestructive Evaluation of Aging Materials and Composites", "Nondestructive Evaluation of Aging Aircraft, Airports, and Aerospace Hardware", "Health Monitoring of the Highway Transportation Infrastructure", and "Utility and Pipeline Systems and Components". The award was formally given at the SPIE's 6 th Annual International Symposium on NDE for Health Monitoring and Diagnostics, in March 2001.

Best Paper Award 2001 from ASME - Na, W. B., and T. Kundu, "Underwater Pipe Inspection using Guided Waves", presented at the ASME Symposium on NDE Challenges of the 21 st Century, Theory and Practice in IMECE 2001 Conference, New York, Nov.11-16, 2001 was selected as the best paper among all papers where leading author is a graduate student.

Invited Professorship from a number of European Universities (Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenberg, Sweden, 1989; Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1996; University of Technology of Compiegne, France, 1997; University of Bordeaux, France, 1997, 2009; Ecole Normale Superior (ENS), Cachan, France, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010; University of Leipzig, Germany, 2003, University of Tokyo, Japan, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 Technical University of Valencia or UPV, Spain 2012, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology or KAIST, South Korea, 2013)

Outstanding Faculty of Civil Engineering & Engineering Mechanics Department, 2009, chosen by the undergraduate students of the department for undergraduate teaching.

Award for Excellence at the Students Interface , award from the Dean's Office, May 2009

Outstanding Honors Faculty, May 2002, awarded by the University of Arizona and the Honors College for outstanding and dedicated service in guiding undergraduate students of the Honors College.

Outstanding Asian Faculty Member of the Year , Oct.1995, awarded by the Asian Faculty, Staff and Alumni Association of the University of Arizona for overall contributions of an individual in teaching, research and service.

Invited Plenary and Keynote Talks:

• Kundu, T. Invited Plenary Talk at ASNT Research Symposium, in Anaheim California, on March 18, 2015.
• Kundu, T. “ Ultrasonic and Electromagnetic Waves for NDE and SHM – Experiment and Modeling”, Invited Plenary Talk delivered on March 12, 2013 at the SPIE's 2013 Annual International Symposium on Smart Structures and Nondestructive Evaluation, San Diego, California, March 10-14, 2013.
• Kundu, T. “ Guided Waves for Nondestructive Testing – Experiment and Analysis ”, one of 7 Invited talks in the International Symposium on Nondestructive Testing of Materials and Structures, NDTMS, Istanbul, Turkey, May 16-18, 2011. The paper was published in Rilem Bookseries, Vol. 6, Nondestructive Testing of Materials and Structures, Eds. O. Buyukozturk, M. A. Tasdemir, O. Guenes and Y. Akkaya, pp. 567-576, published in 2013.
• Kundu, T. , “Ultrasonic Guided Wave for Structural Health Monitoring”, Invited Plenary Talk in SMART'09, Smart Structures and Materials, IV Eccomas Thematic Conference, Porto, Portugal, July 13-15, 2009, Paper published in the conference proceedings, Eds. A. Cunha and J. Dias Rodrigues, pp. 281-290, 2009.
• Kundu, T., Invited Keynote Talk on Structural Health Monitoring at the 2 nd CANEUS (Canadian, European and US Research Consortium) Fly-by-Wireless Workshop ( http://www.caneus.org/fbw/program.aspx ) in Montreal, Canada, June 8-12, 2009. Invited by Dr. Milind Pimprikar, founder of CANEUS
• Kundu, T. Invited Keynote Talk "Theoretical and Experimental Investigations on Ultrasonic Guided Waves for Structural Health Monitoring Applications", presented at the 150-Year Anniversary Conference at Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur, West Bengal, India, Jan. 11-14 , 2007. The paper by T. Kundu and S. Banerjee was published in Proc. of the International Conference on Civil Engineering in the New Millennium: Opportunities and Challenges (CENeM-2007), Vol. 1, pp. 289-308, 2008.
• Kundu, T., "Importance of Mesh-Free Modeling for Ultrasonic Nondestructive Evaluation of Structures”, ( Invited Keynote Talk )” at the 4 th International Conference on Theoretical, Applied, Computational and Experimental Mechanics (ICTACEM 2007), IIT Kharagpur, India, Dec. 27-29, 2007; paper published in the conference proceedings, Eds. S. K. Bhattacharya, D. K. Maiti and B. N. Singh, Pub. Aerospace Engineering Department, IIT Kharagpur, 2007
• Kundu, T., S. Banerjee , S. Das and C. M. Dao, "Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental Investigations with Ultrasonic Sensors”, Invited Talk (invited by Prof. William Spencer ), paper published in the Proceedings of the World Forum on Smart Materials and Smart Structures Technology SMSST '07, Chongqing and Nanjing, China, May 22-27, 2007.
• Kundu. T., Invited Talk , at the US-Japan Workshop on advanced integrated sensor technologies for safe and secure societies and better quality of life, (invited by Prof. M. Tomizuka), Tokyo, Japan, July 21-23, 2007.
• Kundu, T. and S. Banerjee, “Elastic Wave Propagation Modeling by DPSM”, Invited Talk, International Symposium on Mechanical Waves in Solids (ISOMWS06), (invited by Prof. J. D. Achenbach), Hangzhou, China, May 15-18, 2006.
• Kundu, T., "Ultrasonic Guided Waves for Structural Health Monitoring", Invited Keynote Talk delivered in the Third International Conference on Theoretical, Applied, Computational and Experimental Mechanics, (ICTACEM), Dec.28-30, Kharagpur, India, Proceedings published in a CD, 2004.

Recent Invited seminar presentations (since 2010) at different universities in USA and abroad (full or partial travel expenses for these talks were covered by the inviting institutes):

Domestic Invitations:

• May 1, 2014 – State University of New York at Buffalo (Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, invited by Prof. Salvatore Salamon)
• April 2012 – Northwestern University (Mechanical Engineering Department, invited by Prof. Jan Achenbach)
• April 2010 – University of Pittsburgh (Civil Engineering Department, invited by Prof. Piero Rizzo)

International Invitations:

• January 26, 2014– Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India (Center of Nano-Science and Engineering, invited by Center Director Prof. R. Pratap)
• August 9, 2013 - Hanyang University, Seoul South Korea (Mechanical Engineering Department, invited by Prof. K. Y. Jhang)
• July 26, 2013 – Engineering Institute of Korea, Cho Bun National University, Jeonju, South Korea (Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department, invited by Prof. J. R. Lee)
• July 22, 2013 – Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Mechanical Engineering Department, invited by Prof. Z. Su)
• June 12, 2013 – UNIST (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea, Department of Civil Engineering, invited by Prof. Chung Bang Yun)
• June 11, 2013 – Busan National University, South Korea (invited by Prof. Younho Cho, Head of the Mechanical System Design Department)
• May 31, 2013 – Pukyoung National University, South Korea (Ocean Engineering Department, invited by Prof. W. B. Na)
• Jan 21, 2013 – Ehime University, Matsuyama, Japan (invited by Prof. Kazuyuki Nakahata)
• June 2012 – INSA, Lyon, France (invited by Prof. Goran Pavic)
• July 2011 – University of Kyoto (invited by Prof. Shiro Biwa)
• July 2011 – Tokyo Institute of Technology (invited by Prof. Kentaro Nakamura)

Awards Received as Student

President of India Gold Medal for ranking first among all graduating engineers (~300) from I.I.T. Kharagpur, 1979.

Outstanding Master Student Award from U.C.L.A. Engineering Alumni Association, March 1981, for ranking first among all Master students who graduated from the Engineering College of U.C.L.A. in 1980.

Hortense Fishbaugh Memorial Scholarship , U.C.L.A., academic year 1982-83. Ten graduate students from all disciplines of U.C.L.A. are awarded this scholarship every year based on their academic performance.

Regents' Fellowship from the University of California , academic years '79-80 and '80-81. UCLA , USA .

Jagadish Bose National Science Talent Search Scholarship , July '74 to June '79. Calcutta , India . Eight high school graduates from a total of one million are selected for this award every year.