Dr. Rakesh Kumar Phanden is B.Tech. Mechanical Engineering, M.Tech. Integrated Product Design and Manufacturing and Ph.D. in Integration of Process Planning and Production Scheduling from the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Kurukshetra, India in 2012. He is currently working in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Amity University, India. He has chaired several technical sessions in conferences and reviewed articles for many SCIs and Scopus indexed journals of national and international repute. He has published 5 books and edited 4 special issues for a Scopus indexed journal. He is serving as an editorial board member for several journals. He has 15 years of teaching experience at private and government institutes and universities in India and abroad. He has contributed more than 50 papers at the national/international levels including SCI journals. His current areas of interest include nature-inspired optimization algorithms for various mechanical engineering problems, cyber-physical systems, energy-aware modelling of systems, manufacturing systems, production scheduling, integration of process planning and scheduling and product design and manufacturing, industrial engineering and production, welding techniques. Dr. Ravinder Kumar is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering Department in Amity University, India. He holds a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering with Honors. He did his master's and Ph.D. from Delhi College of Engineering, University of Delhi, India. He has over 20 years teaching experience of undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral programs. He has published over 50 research papers in reputed international journals and conferences. His areas of interest include sustainable supply chain management, industrial digitalization, industry 4.0, sustainable manufacturing, sustainability assessments and SCM issues in SMEs. He has published papers in journals ofnational and international repute. Prof. Pulak Mohan Pandey is working as professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi. He is presently on deputation as Director, BIET Jhansi. His area of research includes rapid prototyping, unconventional machining, CAD/CAM, biomedical applications, micromachining, nano finishing, finite elements applications to manufacturing. He has guided 40 Ph.D. and 35 master's dissertations at IIT Delhi. He has published more than 200 hundred research papers in the journals of high repute and also published books and magazines with reputed international publishers. He has also published more than 20 patents in the field of the manufacturing process. Dr. Ayon Chakraborty is an Associate Professor in Engineering Project Management within the School of Engineering, IT, and Physical Sciences at Federation University, Australia. Prior to joining the university, he was working as an Associate Professor in the Operations Management and Decision Sciences area at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Tiruchirappalli, India. He also worked as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Services Science Discipline, Information Systems School at the Queensland University of Technology, Australia. He has more than 11 years of experience in teaching and consulting business students and executives at various institutes such as the Queensland University of Technology, and James Cook University Australia (Singapore Campus). His research interests are in the area of quality management such as on Lean, Six Sigma, and other quality tools and techniques. In recent years, he also worked on practices related to sustainable development and circular economy, specifically in Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs). He is also involved in international collaborative research projects such as Erasmus Plus and GlobalChallenges Research Funding (GCRF) with Aston University in UK. Both these projects focus on the sustainability and wellbeing of MSMEs and are sponsored and funded by UK Government.
