Program Overview
Program Overview
| Time (CEST) | 1 July 2026 Wednesday |
2 July 2026 Thursday |
3 July 2026 Friday |
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| Morning Session CEST |
Session 1: Digitalization of NDT Data |
Session 5: NDT for Structural Health Monitoring |
Session 9: Early Career Researcher (ECR) Session |
| Afternoon Session CEST |
Session 3: Advanced Sensing Technologies |
Session 2: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for NDT |
Session 6: NDT for Additive Manufacturing |
| Session 4: Robotics and Automation in NDT |
Session 7: NDT in Cultural Heritage Preservation |
Session 8: Data Fusion and Integration |
All times are in CEST (Central European Summer Time)
ICNDT 2026 Program (DAY 1)
ICNDT 2026 Day 1
Session 1: Digitalization of NDT Data
Date: 1 July 2026 (Wednesday)
Time: 9:00 (CEST, Basel) | 03:00 (EDT, New York) | 15:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)
| Time in CEST | Speaker | Title |
Session 1: Digitalization of NDT Data |
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| 9:00–9:10 | Prof. Dr. Fabio Tosti Chair |
Opening Speech from the chairs |
| Dr. Luca Bianchini Ciampoli Co-Chairs |
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| 9:10–9:15 | Prof. Dr. Andrea Benedetto Session Chair |
Welcome from the session chair |
| 9:15-9:30 | Kyle Rose Oral Speaker |
Nondestructive testing digital twin definition |
| 9:30-9:45 | Suman K Oral Speaker |
Simulation Study on Detection of Internal and Surface Defects in Wire Ropes Using Magnetic Flux Leakage |
| 9:45-10:00 | Delphina Naa Darkoa Darko Oral Speaker |
Digitalisation and Multi-Modal Integration of NDT and Remote Sensing Data for Coastal Heritage Monitoring: The Reculver Towers Demonstrator |
| 10:00-10:15 | Vineet Yadav Oral Speaker |
From Inspection to Prediction: Integrating NDT, RBI, and AI for Industrial Asset Integrity Management |
| 10:15-10:30 | Kuldeep Sharma Oral Speaker |
Multi-Sector Failure Analytics and Advanced Non-Destructive Evaluation Strategies for Risk-Based Industrial Asset Integrity Management |
| 10:30-14:00 | Break | |
Session 3: Advanced Sensing Technologies
Session 4: Robotics and Automation in NDT
Date: 1 July 2026 (Wednesday)
Time: 14:00 (CEST, Basel) | 08:00 (EDT, New York) | 20:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)
| Time in CEST | Speaker | Title |
Session 3: Advanced Sensing Technologies |
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| 14:00–14:05 | Dr. Ruggero Pinto Session Host |
Welcome from the session host |
| 14:05-14:30 | Dr. Niels Møller Israelsen Keynote Speaker |
Zero defect quality by mid-infrared OCT laser scanning. |
| 14:30-14:45 | Esteban Gonzalez Valencia Oral Speaker |
Optimization of Bloch-like surface wave sensors via multi-nanostrips on side-polished photonic crystal fibers |
| 14:45-15:00 | Xiaochu Pang Oral Speaker |
Defect Evaluation in Ferromagnetic Materials Using a Custom-Designed Instrument for Magnetic Barkhausen Noise and Hysteresis Loop Measurements |
| 15:00-15:15 | R. G. Rejith Oral Speaker |
Non-destructive estimation of crop nitrogen using Proximal Hyperspectral Remote Sensing |
Session 4: Robotics and Automation in NDT |
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| 15:15-15:20 | Prof. Dr. Nicolas P. Avdelidis Session Chair |
Welcome from the session chair |
| 15:20-15:45 | Dr. Sina Sareh Keynote Speaker |
Circularity Robotics: Enabling Sustainable Industrial Futures through Intelligent Automation |
| 15:45-16:00 | Prince Alex Ogbodum Oral Speaker |
High-Precision Piezoelectric Sensor Positioning with SMC Control for Robotic NDT in Pipelines |
| 16:00-16:15 | Yunus ÇELEBİ Oral Speaker |
Drone-Supported Multi-Risk Inspection Model For Occupational Health and Safety in Confined Areas |
ICNDT 2026 Program (DAY 2)
ICNDT 2026 Day 2
Session 5: NDT for Structural Health Monitoring
Date: 2 July 2026 (Thursday)
Time: 9:00 (CEST, Basel) | 03:00 (EDT, New York) | 15:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)
| Time in CEST | Speaker | Title |
Session 5: NDT for Structural Health Monitoring |
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| 9:00–9:05 | Dr. Leandro Maio Session Chair |
Welcome from the session chair |
| 9:05-9:30 | Dr. Sakdirat Kaewunruen Keynote Speaker |
AI-powered digitalisation for structural health monitoring and circular asset strategies of critical railway and transport infrastructures |
| 9:30-9:55 | Prof. Dr. Enzo Rizzo Keynote Speaker |
NDT methods for Monitoring Steel Rebar Corrosion in Reinforced Structure |
| 9:55 - 10:10 | Siqi Wang Oral Speaker |
Real-Time Monitoring and Visualization for Intelligent Compaction of Asphalt Pavements Based on Ground-Penetrating Radar |
| 10:10-10:25 | Amirhossein Askari Oral Speaker |
Degradation Monitoring of Reinforced Concrete Structures by NDT: laboratory and field applications |
| 10:25-10:40 | Ruggero Pinto Oral Speaker |
FBG thermo-mechanical monitoring of airport rigid pavement infrastructures |
| 10:40-10:55 | Saeed Parnow Oral Speaker |
Advanced Diagnostic of Subsurface Decay in Rigid Airfield Pavements: A Signal-Processing-Enhanced GPR Approach |
| 10:55-11:10 | Shekoufeh Abdollahi Oral Speaker |
Development of a UAV-Mountable Multimodal Radar System with Deep Learning for Structural Health Monitoring |
| 11:10-11:25 | Giorgia Sanvitale Oral Speaker |
Potential of Satellite Remote Sensing for Flexible Pavement Monitoring |
| 11:25-14:00 | Break | |
Session 2: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for NDT
Session 7: NDT in Cultural Heritage Preservation
Date: 2 July 2026 (Thursday)
Time: 14:00 (CEST, Basel) | 08:00 (EDT, New York) | 20:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)
| Time in CEST | Speaker | Title |
Session 7: NDT in Cultural Heritage Preservation |
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| 14:00–14:05 | Dr.Francesco Soldovieri Session Chair |
Welcome from the session chair |
| 14:05-14:20 | Saeed Parnow Oral Speaker |
Advanced GPR Data Interpretation for the Diagnostic of Buried Historical Road Tracks: Case Studies from Ancient Rome |
| 14:20-14:35 | Sunil Pradhan Oral Speaker |
Leveraging machine learning for the automated identification of cultural heritage materials via external reflectance FTIR spectroscopy |
| 14:35-14:50 | Muhammad Khubaib Oral Speaker |
Integrating Non-Destructive Testing with HBIM for the Preservation of Timber-Framed Masonry Heritage Structures in Switzerland |
Session 2: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for NDT |
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| 14:50–14:55 | Dr. David Daou Session Chair |
Welcome from the session chair |
| 14:55-15:10 | Otabek Atabeyev Oral Speaker |
Toward Real-Time FTIR Analysis: A Machine Learning Toolkit for Spectral Classification |
| 15:10-15:25 | Maksymilian Kwasnik Oral Speaker |
Accelerating Analysis of Ultrasonic Test Data in Carbon Fibre Reinforced Polymers with Vision Foundation Models |
| 15:25-15:40 | Grigório Ribeiro Soares Neto Oral Speaker |
A descriptor-based machine learning framework for estimating pavement crack geometry from synthetic GPR hyperbolic responses |
| 15:40-15:55 | Cristian Adrian Calistru Oral Speaker |
Liquid Flow Front Estimation From Ultrasonic Guided Wave Signals Using Machine Learning |
| 15:55-16:10 | Marios Giouvanakis Oral Speaker |
Multi-channel AE scalogram imaging with ML regression for non-invasive refrigerant flow characterization |
| 16:10-16:25 | Sunil Pradhan Oral Speaker |
Edge-deployable PINNs: Physics-guided residual learning for smart manufacturing |
ICNDT 2026 Program (DAY 3)
ICNDT 2026 Day 3
Session 9: Early Career Researcher Session
Date: 3 July 2026 (Friday)
Time: 9:00 (CEST, Basel) | 03:00 (EDT, New York) | 15:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)
| Time in CEST | Speaker | Title |
Session 9: Early Career Researcher Session |
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| 9:00–9:05 | Dr. Luca Bianchini Ciampoli Co-Chair |
Welcome from the co-chair |
| 9:05-9:20 | Joel Benjamin Johnson Oral Speaker |
Sub-molecular Structural Quality Assessment of Australian Faba Bean Using ATR-FTIR |
| 9:20-9:35 | Elikem Doe Atsakpo Oral Speaker |
Digitalising Acoustic Data: An Extended Reality Framework for the Visualisation of Simulated Sound Dispersion in the Ancient Roman Theatre of Palmyra |
| 9:35-9:50 | Keiichiro Oshima Oral Speaker |
Fault Diagnosis of Rotating Machinery using Infrared Stress Method with Deep Learning |
| 9:50-10:05 | Yuika Ito Oral Speaker |
Evaluation of Acoustic Emission Energy Trend in Small-diameter Concrete Core with Large Size Coarse Aggregate under Compression Stress Field |
| 10:05-10:20 | Francesco Mercogliano Oral Speaker |
Combining GPR and Magnetic Data through the Integration of Microwave Tomography (MWT) and Depth from EXtreme Points (DEXP) |
| 10:20-10:35 | Ujjal Mandal Oral Speaker |
A Robust Numerical Framework for Ultrasonic Wave Characterization in Complex Petrophysical Environments |
| 10:35-14:00 | Break | |
Session 6: NDT for Additive Manufacturing
Session 8: Data Fusion and Integration
Date: 3 July 2026 (Friday)
Time: 14:00 (CEST, Basel) | 08:00 (EDT, New York) | 20:00 (CST Asia, Beijing)
| Time in CEST | Speaker | Title |
Session 6: NDT for Additive Manufacturing |
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| 14:00–14:05 | Prof. Dr Philip Cox Session Chair |
Welcome from the session chair |
| 14:05-14:20 | Andrea Ehrmann Oral Speaker |
Birefringent properties of 3D printed and other polymers |
| 14:20-14:35 | Andrejs Kovalovs Oral Speaker |
Non-destructive technique for determining the elastic properties in carbon-reinforced polymer laminates using modal frequencies |
| 14:35-14:50 | Stefan Keuler Oral Speaker |
Influence of Remaining Support Structures on the Ultrasonic Testing of Additively Manufactured Components |
| 14:50-15:15 | Prof. Dr. João Oliveira Keynote Speaker |
Non destructive testing during wire and arc additive manufacturing |
Session 8: Data Fusion and Integration |
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| 15:15-15:25 | Dr. Andrea Vitale Session Host |
Welcome from the session chair |
| 15:25-15:40 | Kyle Rose Oral Speaker |
Using deep learning to enhance eddy current system transfer functions |
| 15:40-15:55 | Elikem Doe Atsakpo Oral Speaker |
Multi-Modal Data Fusion: A Stakeholder-Centred Extended Reality Framework for the Digitalisation of Geophysical NDT Data |