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Prof. Ashitava Ghoshal in Robert Bosch Centre for Cyber Physical system, Mechanical Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore for a year (2013).He qualified Indian Engineering Services in 2010. He qualify GATE-2010 with 98.20 % in 2010. His PhD thesis was nominated for best thesis award by the foreign and Indian examiner. He was selected in India-Sri Lanka youth exchange program 2017, organized by the Ministry of youth affairs and sports, Government of India. He was awarded DST-International Travel Fellowship in 2018 to visit Hawaii, USA. He is currently working on the various research projects by CSIR and DST-GOI. He have coordinated and organised many conferences and workshops at IIITDM Kanchipuram-Chennai, IIT Delhi, IIT Kanpur and AIIMS Delhi.He has delivered many talks in Webinars, Faculty Development Programs and workshops in the institute like (a) B. S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology, Vandalur, Chennai in association with Tamilnadu State Council for Science and Technology, Chennai, (b) Sathyabama Institute of Science & Technology, Chennai, (c) SRM University Chennai and VIT Chennai. He have examined many M.Tech. and Ph.D. students at SRM University Chennai. He have guided more than 10 B.Tech., M.Tech. and Ph.D. students for their thesis.

Dr. Ashwani Kumar received Ph.D. (Mechanical Engineering) in the area of Mechanical Vibration and Design. He is currently working as Senior Lecturer, Mechanical Engineering (Gazetted Officer Group B) at Technical Education Department, Uttar Pradesh (Under Government of Uttar Pradesh) Kanpur, India since December 2013. He has worked as Assistant Professor in Department of Mechanical Engineering, Graphic Era University Dehradun India from July 2010 to November 2013. He has more than twelve years of research and academic experience in mechanical and materials engineering. He is Series Editor of book series "Advances in Manufacturing, Design and Computational Intelligence Techniques" and "Renewable and Sustainable Energy Developments" published by CRC Press, Taylor & Francis, USA. He is Editor-in-Chief for International Journal of Materials, Manufacturing and Sustainable Technologies (IJMMST) and Associate Editor for International Journal of Mathematical, Engineering and Management Sciences (IJMEMS) Indexed in ESCI/Scopus and DOAJ. He is editorial board member of 4 international journals and acts as review board member of 20 prestigious (Indexed in SCI/SCIE/Scopus) international journals with high impact factor i.e. Applied Acoustics, Measurement, JESTEC, AJSE, SV-JME, and LAJSS. In addition he has published 100+ research articles in journals, book chapters and conferences. He has authored/co-authored cum edited 22 books of Mechanical and Materials Engineering. He has published 2 patents. He is associated with International Conferences as Invited Speaker/ Advisory Board/Review Board member/Program Committee Member. He has delivered many invited talks in webinar, FDP and Workshops. He has been awarded as Best Teacher for excellence in academic and research. He has successfully guided 12 B.Tech., M.Tech and Ph.D. thesis.In administration he is working as coordinator for AICTE, E.O.A., Nodal officer for PMKVY-TI Scheme (Government of India) and internal coordinator for CDTP scheme (Government of Uttar Pradesh). He is currently involved in the research area of AI & ML in Mechanical Engineering, Advanced Materials & Manufacturing Techniques, Building Efficiency, Renewable Energy Harvesting, Heavy Vehicle Dynamics and Sustainable Transportation.

Abhishek Kumar is currently working as Ph.D. Scholar in Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California Merced, U.S.A. from January 2021. He has received his M.Tech in Design Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India in 2016. He received his Bachelor of Engineering degree with honors in Mechanical Engineering from Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya, Bhopal in 2014. He has worked as Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Jabalpur Engineering College Jabalpur M.P. India from January 2018- December 2020. He has worked as summer visiting researcher at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur from June 2018- July 2018. He has previously worked as an Assistant Professor at Galgotias University, Greater Noida (U.P.) from Sept. 2017 - Dec. 2017, and Parul University, Vadodara (Gujarat) from June 2016 - Sept. 2017.He qualified GATE-2014 with 99.25 percentile in 2014. His M.Tech. thesis was based on the investigation of nano-wear in Mg-based composites in collaboration with NUS Singapore. He is a Certified Peer Reviewer for Elsevier and has successfully reviewed more than 15 journal papers. He has been recognized as the Outstanding Reviewer by the Journal of Magnesium and Alloys (11.90 impact factor) due to his extraordinary contributions to the journal. He is currently involved in the research which involves Tribology, Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Material Characterization, Mechanical Testing, Mechanical Properties, Microstructure, Nanomaterials, Material Characteristics, Materials and Materials Processing. He has published 6 research articles in international journals of high impact factors.