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Prof. Dr. Fabio Tosti is a Registered Chartered Engineer; a Professor of Civil Engineering at the School of Computing and Engineering, University of West London (UWL), London, U.K.; and the Director of “The Faringdon Research Centre for Non-Destructive Testing and Remote Sensing” at UWL. His research interests include the development of new algorithms, methodologies, and models for geoscience applications and the non-destructive and remote sensing assessment of civil and green infrastructure, as well as cultural heritage. He has authored/co-authored over 230 research publications and delivered numerous keynotes speeches and invited lectures. Prof. Tosti was a recipient of the ECSs Award awarded by the European Geosciences Union (EGU) in 2017 and several Best Paper Awards at international conferences, including TSP 2020, IEEE AGERS 2021 and GIRST 2023. He was the General Co-Chair of the Int. Workshop on Signal Processing Techniques for GPR Applications (SPT4GPRA) in 2024, 2022 and 2020, and he has led technical sessions at 50+ international conferences. He is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of NDT (MDPI) and an Associate Editor of various international peer-reviewed journals.

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Radar and its Applicability as NDT Device

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Dr. Alessandro Simi is the Director of the R&D department at IDS GeoRadar (a part of Hexagon group), an industry operating in the field of radar systems for civil engineering, geophysical and geotechnical applications. In IDS GeoRadar he is leading a team of tens of electronical, mechanical and software engineers that develop, evolve and innovate a large product portfolio, comprising Interferometric Monitoring Radars and Ground Penetrating Radar and their relevant Software solutions. He has almost twenty years of experience specifically on Ground Penetrating Radar, one of the technologies in which IDS GeoRadar is a worldwide leader, he has conceived innovative system architectures as well as data processing algorithms. Between 2008 and today he has authored tens of scientific papers, mainly published by IEEE as Proceedings of the major Conferences concerning GPR as the “International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar” and the “International Workshop on Advanced Ground Penetrating Radar”. He is the inventor of published patents concerning both methods and novel apparatus for Ground Penetrating Radar and its applications.