Mr. Nihar Masurkar is a PhD student in the Robotics and Systems Engineering at Arizona State University. He has obtained his Master in robotics from ASU with his research focused on pioneering a bio-inspired robotic inspection system. He has several journal and conference presentations in the area of robotic inspection.

Tricia Vines is a software engineer in the Nondestructive Characterizations Group at Kratos SRE in Birmingham, Alabama. She holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M University and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Arlington. Her main focus is developing software for data acquisition, analysis, and interpretation. Her primary programming language is Python.

Tyler Lesthaeghe is a research engineer at the University of Dayton Research Institute. He holds a B.S. and M.S. and is a Ph.D. Candidate at Iowa State University. His area of research is nondestructive evaluation, including ultrasound, thermography, eddy current, and resonant methods.