Akant Kumar Singh graduated in Mechanical Engineering from Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.He has finished his master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh, India. His Ph.D. research is on the topic of “tribological aspects of the fiber augmented functionally graded material-based polymer spur gears. He has evolved a novel mathematical equation to calculate the wear rate of the polymer gears. He has 14 years of teaching and research experience. He has 37 research publications in international journals and 12 publications in international conferences. He has published seven book chapters with reputed international publishers. He has also published one Indian patent. He is a reviewer of various international journals. His research interest lies in the area of functionally graded materials (FGMs), polymer gears, and materials tribology. He has guided one master’s thesis. Five students are pursuing their master’s thesis work under his guidance. Currently, He is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Chandigarh University Mohali, Punjab, India.Naveen Mani Tripathi is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology, Jais, Amethi, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Government of India. He completed his Ph.D. from the Mechanical Engineering Department of Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. After his Ph.D., he worked as a particle scientist in the material characterization instrument manufacturing company, GranuTools sprl, Belgium. His post-doctoral research is from the Chair of Process System Engineering of the Technical University of Munich, Germany. He has been awarded many fellowships, such as the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE), the Graduate Record Examination (GRE), the Kriteman Fellowship, the Technical University of Munich’s University Foundation Fellowship, and the Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship. His area of research is material characterization, additive and smart manufacturing, and multiphase flow. He has four granted and one published patents and more than 50 Journals/conference publications and is the editor of three books from international publishers. He is voluntarily working as an editorial board member and review editor for more than 20 journals. He Associate Editor of the Scopus-indexed journal Materials Process Engineering, Frontiers in Chemical Engineering. He has also served as the Editor of a special issue of the journal Recent Patents on Mechanical Engineering, Betham Science.Ankit Sharma holds the position of Associate Director (Research) of the Research and Innovation Network (CURIN) Department, Chitkara University, Punjab, India. He received his doctorate in Mechanical Engineering from the Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, India. He has more than 10 years of experience in academics, research, consulting, training, and industry. Dr. Sharma also organized an international conference – the International Conference on Emerging Materials, Smart Manufacturing and Computational Intelligence (ICEMSMCI) 2023 and served as the General Chair and Convenor. He has authored numerous national and international publications in Science Citation Index (SCI), Scopus, and Web of Science-indexed journals. He has filed/published more than 30 international patents. He is the editor of several CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group publications related to advanced manufacturing processes, and several are in the pipeline.Don McGlinchey is the academic leader of the Digital Transformation and Intelligent Maintenance Research Group and the former Head of the Centre for Industrial Bulk Solids Handling at Glasgow Caledonian University. He is an academic of international standing within the particulate solids handling community with over 30 years’ experience. He has undertaken contract research and consultancy projects for both multinational companies and small to medium enterprises (SMEs), and delivered short courses in Europe, the USA and the UK. He is a chartered physicist, with a Ph.D. in the particle technology area. He is the editor of three books and has authored over 50 research articles. His current research interests include multiphase flow pipeline transport measurement and modelling, and pneumatic conveying system modelling.
