He X-Rays Bridges & Planes | He Left USA to Build Non-Destructive Testing | Prof Krishnan B.

[00:02:13] Area of Research: Non-Destructive Testing [NDT] explained

[00:06:30] What’s the Difference: Destructive vs Non-Destructive Testing

[00:09:50] Non-Destructive Testing: Real-world applications and the technologies used

[00:14:50] Setting Up CNDE: Prof. Krishnan’s journey and setting up the Center

[00:21:16] ICSR: What is it, and why is it IITM’s window to industry?

[00:25:26] Intellectual Property: Protecting the IP and creating social impact

[00:28:56] ICSR: Solving global and social problems through research

[00:32:32] Incubation Cell: How did it begin?

[00:41:21] Dhwani: Automating Non-Destructive Testing

[00:47:33] Planys Technologies: Starting and the journey

[00:52:21] Evolution of Professors in IITM: From teachers to researchers to entrepreneurs now

[00:54:29] Detect Technologies - What does it do?

[00:59:08] XYMA Technologies: Pioneering High-Temperature Sense Technology

[01:03:53] IIT Madras: What makes it the Best Place to Build?

[01:05:46] CFI at IITM: Walk in with an idea, walk out with a product

[01:06:48] Nirmaan: Supporting student entrepreneurs

[01:07:32] The Gopalakrishnan Deshpande Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Impact on society and industry

[01:14:54] Prof. Krishnan’s current interests: Teaching courses and sports

[01:16:42] Deep Tech ventures: Why does he call it Deep Research?

[00:02:23] IIT Madras

[00:13:25] NDT is also used for testing the Rockets at ISRO Indian Space Research Organization

[00:17:53] CNDE 

[00:21:08] ICSR Industrial Consultancy and Sponsored Research was set up to act as a window between IIT Madras and Governmental agencies and industries that could use the research done in IITM.

[00:22:18] MIT is known for its research as much as its academics

[00:32:40] IISc Bangalore is the Indian Institute of Science

[00:32:42] IIT Bombay and IIT Delhi had a huge head start because they already had a policy and process in place for incubation.

[00:39:27] IIT Madras Research Park 

[00:45:00] Chandrayaan components were inspected by a system built by Dhvani Research.

[00:47:41] CFI Centre for Innovation was originally intended to be a tinker lab for students to try things

[01:06:42] Nirmaan started from a program that gave students an extra year to work on their ideas while staying in IIT Madras

[01:09:07] George Washington University was approached for help with the I-Corps programme

[01:12:12] DST Department of Science & Technology has partnered with the Gopalakrishnan-Deshpande Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

[01:14:10] Pravartak is the Technology Innovation Hub at IIT Madras

[00:08:30] Richard Arn, VP of the American Welding Society shared some insights on the welding process with Professor Krishnan

[00:14:58] Professor Oruganti Prabhakar of Metallurgy had been working on NDT before Professor Krishnan came back to IIT Madras.

[00:15:59] Professor R Natarajan, Director at IIT Madras

[00:16:07] Dr. Baldev Raj was responsible for Prof Krishnan’s return to IITM from the US

[00:35:08] Professor M.S Ananth, past Director of IIT Madras called Prof Krishnan about the incubation cell in IITM.

[00:48:12] Tanuj Jhunjhunwala left his job in Tata Motors to start Planys Technologies

[00:49:19] Vineet Upadhyay and Rakesh Sirikonda were part of the team that joined Planys Technologies

[00:55:20] Daniel Raj David, Harikrishnan AS and Karthik R were part of the founding team at Detect Technologies

[01:00:13] Suresh, Ph.D student of the professor

[01:00:54] Nishanth Raja is the Founder of XYMA Technologies

[01:02:50] Aswin Kumar Kathirvel is the Co-Founder and CTO of XYMA Technologies

[01:06:51] Desh Deshpande was part of the I-Corps in US and pushed for the creation of the Gopalakrishnan Deshpande Center 

[01:07:03] Subra Suresh was instrumental in inspiring the setup of the Gopalakrishnan Deshpande Center.

[01:08:12] Kris Gopalakrishnan, the Co-Founder of Infosys was involved in the setting up of the Gopalakrishnan Deshpande Center

[01:08:41] Raghuttama Rao is the CEO of Gopalakrishnan Deshpande Center

[01:13:09] Prof. Satya Chakravarthy

[01:13:22] Prof. Satya Seshadri

[01:13:25] Prof. Prabhu Rajagopal

[01:18:16] Prof Krishnan refers to John F. Kennedy’s quote on choosing the hard problem and not the easy ones

[00:27:15] KPMG started working on IP with IITM in 2012 - 2013

[00:29:36] Boeing, Airbus and ExxonMobil are some of ICSR’s global clients

[00:40:42] Lema Labs is a startup offering training on topics like Robotics, IoT (Internet of Things) and Machine Learning. It was one of the earliest startups incubated as part of the IIT Madras Incubation Cell.

[00:40:44] Hyperverge was also one of the earliest companies incubated at the IIT Madras Incubation Cell.

[00:40:59] GyanData was initially started in the ICSR framework and then moved to the Incubation Cell

[00:41:02] Dhvani Research 

[00:43:39] Dhvani AI is a part of the Dhvani Research company which works on data analytics from the manufacturing and operations side.

[00:44:26] Companies like L&T, Reliance, Aramco, Shell, Baker Hughes are among the clients of Dhvani AI.

[00:45:27] Tata Steel, Jindal, Cummins, TVS are some of the companies that Dhvani Research is building systems for.

[00:47:33] Planys Technologies

[00:48:41] Tata Motors

[00:51:23] Keiretsu Forum provided seed funding for Planys Technologies

[00:54:05] Detect Technologies 

[00:54:15] Maximl Labs is one of the subsidiaries of Detect Technologies that acts as an Industrial AI platform for Operational Excellence.

[00:58:04] Adani is also one of the clients of Detect Technologies

[00:59:03] Xyma Analytics

[01:03:04] SKF is using the XYMA technology for their bearings

[01:03:11] Vedanta and Emirates Global are also using the XYMA technologies

[01:05:25] Ather

[01:19:08] Facebook 

[01:19:44] In Prof. Krishnan’s opinion, SpaceX will outlast X (Formerly Twitter)

[01:20:14] Tesla‍

[00:17:53] CNDE 

[00:47:41] CFI Centre for Innovation

[00:21:08] ICSR Industrial Consultancy and Sponsored Research was set up to act as a window between IIT Madras and Governmental agencies and industries that could use the research done in IITM.

[00:39:27] IIT Madras Research Park 

[00:45:00] Chandrayaan components were inspected by a system built by Dhvani Research.

[01:06:42] NIRMAAN is a facilitator at IIT Madras

[01:14:10] Pravartak is the Technology Innovation Hub at IIT Madras