Dr. Ambrish Maurya is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at National Institute of Technology (NIT) Patna, India. He has a teaching experience of more than 5 years and during his academic career, he has guided several Master’s thesis and B. Tech. projects. He is presently also guiding two Ph.D. scholars. Dr. Maurya has completed his Master of Technology in Production and Industrial Engineering and Ph.D. in physical and mathematical modeling of continuous casting process of steelmaking from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee in 2010 and 2017 respectively. He also has research expertise in the area of processing and fabrication of metal matrix composite, polymer composites, advanced casting technologies, computational fluid dynamics, and solar energy. Dr. Maurya has published more than 20 research articles and book chapters in international journals and conferences. He is also a reviewer for journals of national and internationalrepute.  Dr. Shailesh M Pandey is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at National Institute of Technology (NIT) Patna, India. He has over 13 years of teaching/research and industry experience. Dr. Pandey completed his M. Tech and Ph.D. from Delhi Technological University. His research interest lies in tribology, surface modification, coating, friction, wear, SEM, XRD, composite materials, etc. Dr Pandey has published various research articles in journals of national and international repute and guided several master’s theses. Dr. Pradeep Kumar Jha is currently working as Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering. After receiving Bachelor’s and Master’s degree from M.I.T. Muzaffarpur, Bihar and National Institute of Foundry and Forge Technology, India in 1995 and 1999 respectively, Dr. Jha obtained his Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur in 2004. Prior to joining as Assistant Professor in IIT Roorkee in 2007, he also taught at IIT Guwahati and IIT (ISM) Dhanbad. Dr. Jha specializes in the area of manufacturing engineering, with special emphasis on casting operations, modelling and simulation of continuous casting operations and metal matrix composites. He has to his credit more than 100 publications in international and national journals, conferences and book chapters. In his broad area of expertise, he has supervised 10 doctoral, 40 M. Tech. theses and 25 B. Tech. theses. He has dealt many sponsored research projects from government funding agencies. Dr. Jha has been involved with teaching of subjects with manufacturing and thermal streams. He has been an active contributor to the online education platform, NPTEL, sponsored by Government of India, by developing and running eight different courses in the domain of his teaching and research.  Dr. Anmesh Kumar Srivastava is currently working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology (NIT) Patna, India. He obtained his B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering in 2010 from Gautam Buddh Technical University, Lucknow. He received his M.Tech. in Energy Engineering from Malaviya National Institute of Technology (MNIT) Jaipur in 2012 and Ph.D. from MNIT Jaipur in 2018. His areas of interest in research include I.C. engines, alternative fuels for I.C. engines, emissions and renewable energy. He is the author of a number of research publications that have been published in reputed journals and conferences. He is a member of various professional societies.

• Development Of A Combined Evaporative Cooling System With Eco-Friendly Nozzles And Encapsulated Phase Change Materials.- Multi-objective optimization of green drilling parameters on HcHcr steel using GRA-TOPSIS with PCA method.- Numerical Analysis Of Supersonic Axi-Symmetric Inlet With Single Ramp.- Numerical and experimental analysis of friction stir welding of Aluminium alloy AA2024-T4.- An Artificial Neural Network Based Model For Prediction Of The Parameters Of Single Layer Deposition By Wire And Arc Additive Manufacturing.