Advances in Mechanical Engineering and Technology

Dr. Ranganath M. Singari is a professor in the Department of Mechanical, Production and Industrial Engineering and heads the Department of Design, Delhi Technological University, India. He is a graduate in Industrial Production Engineering from Karnataka University. He completed his M.Tech in Computer Technology and Applications and Ph.D. from the Department of Production Engineering from University of Delhi, India. He has more than 60 international publications in conference and reputed journals. He is also a reviewer for reputed journals. Dr. Singari has organized several international conferences, seminars/workshops, industry-institute interactions and 6 FDP/SDP/STTP. He also serves as Chairman, Production Engineering, Skill India Program, DTTE, Delhi. He is an expert member of several selection committees for technical, teaching and administrative positions. His research interest is materials, manufacturing, industrial management, production management, CAD/CAM, supply chain management, multi-criteria decision making and sustainable lean manufacturing. He has 25 years of research and teaching experience.Dr. Pavan Kumar Kankar is working as Associate Professor in Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Indore. His research interests include fault diagnosis and prognosis using machine learning techniques, reliability, bio-medical signal processing and analysis of dynamical systems. He is having more than 15 years of teaching and research experience. He worked with Villanova University for effective discrimination between four kinds of common defects in gears by utilizing the method of recurrence analysis. Dr. Kankar also worked on improving theoretical model of unbalanced shaft-bearing system with researchers of Faculty of Science, University of Yaoundé, Yaoundé, Cameroon. He contributed in various projects awarded by national and international funding agencies under IMPRINT India Initiative by Ministry of Human Resource Development and India–Japan Cooperative Science Program, etc., total worth of Rs. 3.3 crore approx. IIT Indore has been recently awarded a grant of INR 100 Cr. by DST, Govt. of India to establish a Technology Innovation Hub (TIH) on Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) with a focused theme of “System Simulation, Modeling and Visualization.” Dr. Kankar is also a core committee member of this Technology Innovation Hub (TIH) at IIT Indore. Dr. Kankar has contributed to more than 100 publications which include journal papers, conference papers, books, and book chapters. He is member of International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration, USA. He is a member of various professional bodies like American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Society for Reliability and Safety (SRESA), Tribology Society of India. His work is having more than 2200 citations.Dr. Girija Moona is currently working as Senior Scientist at CSIR-National Physical Laboratory, Delhi. She has more than 15 years of research and academic experience. She has been an active researcher in the area of mechanical measurements and dimensional metrology. Her areas of research also include measurement uncertainty evaluation using Monte Carlo Simulation and hybrid composites. She has participated in various international intercomparisons related to dimensional metrology on behalf CSIR-NPL India, to prove the international equivalence of NPL. She has authored more than 60 publications in peer reviewed journals, conferences and book chapters. She is an active reviewer of many reputed journals related to measurement, metrology and materials.

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