Dr. Sasmeeta Tripathy is currently an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Technical Education and Research, Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan Deemed to be University, India. She obtained her B.Tech. (Mechanical) from Utkal University and M.Tech. (Production) from National Institute of Technology (NIT), Rourkela. She had her Ph.D. from Siksha “O” Anusandhan, Deemed to be University. Her major areas of research interests include manufacturing, non-traditional machining, optimization and soft computing. She has published more than 18 papers in scholarly, peer-reviewed indexed international journals & conferences and authored a number of chapters in edited books besides an edited book to her credit. She has been a reviewer in peer-reviewed journals and international conference proceedings. She is a life member of Institution of Engineers (India) and Indian Institution of Industrial Engineering. Currently, she is the honorary secretary of Indian Institution of Industrial Engineering, Odisha Chapter. She is the recipient of Brundaban Sahu Memorial Award and Bipin Behari Mohanty Memorial Award from the Institution of Engineers, India, and conferred with Fellowship Award from Indian Institution of Industrial Engineering (IIIE).Dr. Sikata Samantaray is currently an associate professor in Department of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Technical Education and Research, Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan Deemed to be University, India. She obtained her B.E. from Utkal University (Mechanical), M.Tech. from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur (Thermal) and Ph.D from Jadavpur University. Her research interests include computational methods in thermal Engineering, numerical analysis of bio-heat transfer, experimental analysis of thermal systems using nanofluids, numerical and experimental analysis of non-conventional machining process of ceramic matrix composite. She has published more than 18 research papers in various national and international journals and conferences. She has filed more than 3 patents. She is a member of Institution of Engineers (India) and ASME. Dr. J. Ramkumar is currently professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Design Program, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur. He obtained his B. Tech. (Production) from National Institute of Technology (NIT) Trichy followed by M.Tech. and doctorate in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Madras, Chennai. He pursued his post-doctoral research in the area of intermetallic composites machining and fabrication at Osaka University, Japan. Areas of his research interests include micro and nanomachining and finishing, tribology, coatings and corrosion for engineering and biomedical applications. He has published over 200 articles in the peer-reviewed international journals and has delivered over 80 lectures in the international conferences. His h-index of 23 endorses his high research productivity. Out of 69 patents to his credit, five have been commercialized. He received research funding of over $4 million during his career at IIT Kanpur. He is the project investigator of MedTech facility being developed in IIT Kanpur, funded by BIRAC, Department of Biotechnology, Government of India. Dr. Ramkumar is the recipient of several awards, fellowships and recognitions such as Young Engineer award of ISAC, India, Gopal Das Bhandari Best teacher Award, by IIT Kanpur, recently honored with “Eminent Engineer award” from IEI, India, Young Alumni Achiever Award from NIT Trichy and many more. Currently, he is a reviewer of above 25 technical journals from leading global publishers. He has organized several workshops, short-term courses and training programmes on product design and manufacturing, design thinking, rapid prototyping, medical devices prototyping, manufacturing process pedagogy, manufacturing of composites, micro and nanofabrication, among others. Dr. Siba Sankar Mahapatra is currently professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology (NIT), Rourkela. He obtained his B.Tech.(Mechanical) and M.Tech.(Production) from Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology, India. He pursued his Ph.D. (Industrial Engineering) from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur. His major research areas include manufacturing, soft computing, neural computing, prediction tools, non-traditional optimization, modelling and simulation. He has guided more than 27 doctoral and over 57 M.Tech. students. He has published more than 320 papers in various national and international journals and conferences. He was a visiting faculty to Industrial Systems Engineering, School of Engineering and Technology, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, as a secondment faculty from India during 2009 and 2012. He is the recipient of many prestigious awards like Professor B.G.Raghavendra Memorial Award, Brundaban Sahu Memorial Award, Outstanding Research Faculty Award in Business, Management and Accounting discipline by Career 360, Conferred Fellowship Award from Indian Institution of Industrial Engineering and many more. He is a reviewer of various technical journals of leading global publishers.
