Anuj Bhatnagar is currently working as Senior Director and Head of the Management and Systems department, Bureau of Indian Standards. He has more than 33 years of experience in standards formulation (in the field of Management and Systems), product and system certification, auditing and laboratory management of testing and calibration laboratories in the National Standards Body of India, i.e., Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS). Out of these, more than 13 years have been spent in certification (product and system), around 15 years in Testing and Calibration Laboratory, 2 years in standards formulation, and 3 years in administrative and support activities like publication, planning and coordination/ vigilance. He has expertise in Product Certification, Quality Management System certification, Laboratory Management Systems; faculty for Laboratory Management Systems, ILC/PT & ISO 17043, and Uncertainty in Measurement. He has coordinated and developed many training programs for professionals on these topics successfully and trained more than 1000 industry professionals (national and international) in these topics. Audited many organizations (more than 20) as per ISO 9001 and carried out more than 100 audits as per ISO/IEC 17025 for National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL) and BIS. He has authored several papers and two books related to Measurement Systems, developed “a criteria for variation in the inter-lab QA tests,” and established the National Mirror Committee of ISO REMCO in India.
Dr. Sanjay Yadav, former Chief Scientist and Head of Physico-Mechanical Metrology Division & Professor, AcSIR, Faculty of Physical Sciences at CSIR-National Physical Laboratory (CSIR-NPL). Presently, he is Vice President, Metrology Society of India, New Delhi, and Vice President, Ultrasonic Society of India, New Delhi, India. He has also contributed in several national and international advisory boards/committees like International Measurement Confederation (IMEKO), Asia Pacific Metrology Programme (APMP), International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM), BIS, National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), Fluid Control Research Institute (FCRI), etc. Prior to joining CSIR-NPL, India, he has worked for more than 7 years as a Project Officer in the Science and Technology Department, Haryana Government for the implementation of various rural development programs. He has more than 500 research publications to his credit in national and international journals of repute, books, monographs, popular articles, reports, conferences, seminars, and workshops. He has also contributed in the participation of various international key comparisons, viz. APMP. M.P. K13 (50–500 MPa), 2011–2015; CCM.P-K13 (50–500 MPa), 2009–2012; CCM.P-K8 (50–500 MPa), 1997; APLAC Interlaboratory comparison (0–50 MPa), 1998; APMP.M. P-K7 (10–100 MPa), 2002; and CCM.P-K7 (10–100 MPa), 2004. He has also coordinated seven proficiency-testing programs sponsored by NABL, India, for Indian-accredited pressure laboratories. He is the recipient of research scholarships from the Ministry of Home Affairs, India (1986); CSIR, India (1988); Col. G.N. Bajpayee Award of Institution of Engineers, India (1989); Commendation Certificates from Haryana Government (1991 and 1992); JICA Fellowship of JAPAN (1998); Commendation Certificates from SASO, Saudi Arabia (2003); and APMP Awards for Developing Economies (2020). He is also qualified Assessor for laboratory accreditation as per ISO/IEC 17025 (2017). He is also working as Chief Editor of MAPAN: The Journal of Metrology Society of India. He is a Fellow member of Metrology Society of India (MSI), Ultrasonics Society of India (USI), Instrument Society of India (ISOI), Vigyan Bharti, etc. He has visited Laboratoire national de métrologie et d'essais (LNE), France (1998, 2014); National Metrology Institute of Japan (NMIJ), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan (1998–1999) and National Measurement and Calibration Laboratory (NMCL), Saudi Standards, Metrology and Quality Organization (SASO), Saudi Arabia, 2003; Research and Development Center for Calibration Instrumentation and Metrology (KIM-LIPI), Indonesia, 2014; Bhutan Standard Bureau (BSB), Bhutan, 2016; and Standard and Industrial Research Institute of Malaysia (SIRIM), Malaysia, 2017, on official deputations. Specialties: He has significantly contributed to the field of pressure and ultrasonic metrology, the establishment of national pressure standards, dissemination of national practical pressure scale to users, interlaboratory comparisons, proficiency testing program and key comparisons, biomedical instrumentation, ultrasonic transducers, and instrumentation systems.
Prof. Venu Gopal Achanta obtained his MSc from Central University, Hyderabad, PhD (physics) from Tata Institute of Fu
