Shrikaant Kulkarni, Ph.D., works as a Research Professor at Sanjivani University, Kopargaon, India, and as an Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Business, Victorian Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia, Adjunct Professor, Lincoln University College, Malaysia, and Adjunct Professor at Chitkara University, Punjab, India. Dr. Kulkarni has been a senior academician and researcher for 42 years. He has published over 100+ research papers in national and international journals and conferences of repute. He has edited 50+ books, including four in Advanced AI, and authored 100+ book chapters. He authored four textbooks in engineering chemistry. Dr Kulkarni holds MSc, MPhil, and PhD degrees in Chemistry, as well as Master’s degrees in Economics, Business Management, and Political Science. Two of his Patents have been published, and two more are pending grant. He was invited by UNESCO to give an invited talk on "Green Chemistry Education for Sustainable Development" at the International Conference on Green Chemistry in Bangkok, and was well received by international Jury members and dignitaries from around the world.Dr. Jing Shi received his B.S. and Ph.D. in materials engineering from the University of Science and Technology Beijing, China, and another Ph.D. in industrial engineering from Purdue University, USA. He is currently a full professor of Mechanical Engineering and the program chair of Industrial & Systems Engineering, holds a joint appointment from the Materials Science & Engineering program, all at the University of Cincinnati, USA. He has more than 25 years of experience in research and teaching. He has published over 200 refereed papers, and is recognized as a top 2% most widely cited scientist, in the list of “The World's Top 2% Scientists”, published by Stanford University. In addition, he serves as the editor-in-chief for Sustainable Energy Research.Dr. Poushali Das is a senior research scientist in the Faculty of Engineering at McMaster University, Canada. Before this, she held a postdoctoral position in the Department of Chemistry, Bar-Ilan University, Israel. She completed her Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. She received prestigious awards, like DST INSPIRE Scholar Award (Government of India), Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska-Curie Award (European Commission). Her research interests include multifunctional luminescent quantum dots and applications in sensors, smart nanocomposites, MXenes, and 2D/polymer nanocomposites.
