Dr. Akanksha Srivastava is an Associate Professor at the School of Education, Sharda University, Greater Noida, India, and has over 17 years of experience in teacher education, educational technology, and academic leadership. Her areas of expertise span AI in education, digital pedagogy, educational psychology, and inclusive learning in alignment with NEP 2020. An internationally certified soft skills trainer and MOOC developer for SWAYAM, she also actively supervises doctoral research, contributes to curriculum design, and mentors educators in adopting tech-enabled teaching methodologies. Dr. Disha Maheshwari is a scholar of Education with a Ph.D. from the University of Delhi, India. She was a Commonwealth Scholar at the Centre for Applied Linguistics at the University of Warwick, UK, and her research interests span Gender and Education, Discourse and Identity, and Higher Education Pedagogy. She currently teaches at Sharda University, India, where she offers courses in Gender Studies, Communication, and Qualitative Research Methodology, including Pedagogy at undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral levels. Her research engagements include working as a Research Assistant on the British Council-funded ELT Survey of India with Dr. Richard Smith (University of Warwick), and as a Project Associate on the University of Delhi's R&D-funded project Children and Teachers as Co-researchers: Exploring Young Learner Classrooms in India. She is the co-editor of Subverting Social Inequalities: Gender as a Social Reality (Apple Academic Press, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group), and her work has appeared in several national and international academic journals. Dr. A.V.Senthil Kumar is a Professor and Director of PG and Research within the Department of Computer Applications at Hindusthan College of Arts & Science, India. A teacher with over 28 years of experience, he has also spent time working in industry. He is the Editor-in-Chief for many journals and a Key Member for India within the Machine Intelligence Research Lab (MIR Labs). He has contributed to 66 book chapters, 231 papers in international and national journals, 77 papers in international and national conferences, and edited 17 books and three textbooks. Dr Samrat Ray is a Senior Researcher at Peter the Great Saint Petersburg Polytechnic University, Russia, specializing in the economics of innovation, entrepreneurship and managerial aspects of economics. He is associated with the Industrial and Trade Management Institute of the university, which handles cross-border industrial and economic incubation for product discovery and patenting. He has over 15 years of experience dealing with academic leadership and thought direction in the UAE, Russia and across Europe and possesses a PhD from Polytechnical University, Russia. He has written over 100 Scopus-indexed papers and has been granted seven international and national patents in his name.
