Tribikram Kundu

Prof. Tribikram Kundu earned his B.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Kharagpur in 1979, receiving the President of India Gold Medal for ranking first among all graduates. He completed his MS (1980) and PhD (1983) in Solid Mechanics at UCLA, where he was named Outstanding Graduate Student of the Year (1980–81). He joined the University of Arizona in 1983 as an assistant professor in Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics (later Civil and Architectural Engineering and Mechanics) and became a full professor in 1994.

Dr. Kundu has made significant contributions in nondestructive testing (NDT) and structural health monitoring (SHM) using ultrasonic and electromagnetic techniques. His research spans elastic and electromagnetic wave propagation, fracture mechanics, biomechanics, and computational mechanics, with applications in civil, aerospace, geomaterials, electronic, and biological materials. He has published 9 books, 18 book chapters, and 363 technical papers, with Google Scholar citations exceeding 8,200 and an h-index of 48. He has supervised 40 PhD and 28 MS students and currently advises 3 PhD students.

He is a Fellow of ASME, ASCE, ASA, ASNT, and SPIE, and a life member of AvHAA. He has chaired the SPIE Health Monitoring conference for 18 years, led ASME NDE Engineering Division, and served as founding Editor-in-Chief of the ASME Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation, Diagnostics and Prognostics of Engineering Systems and the Journal of Civil Engineering and Science. He currently serves as Associate Editor of Ultrasonics and has held editorial roles with several other journals.

Dr. Kundu has extensive international collaborations, including 30 months in Germany as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow and Humboldt Research Prize recipient, and has served as invited professor at multiple institutions worldwide.