Sharad Kumar Pradhan is Director of THDC Institute of Hydropower Engineering and Technology, Tehri, India (on deputation) and is a Professor Mechanical Engineering at the National Institute of Technical Teachers' Training and Research (NITTTR), Bhopal. Before joining NITTTR Bhopal he was a Scientist at 'Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute' (CMERI), Durgapur, (WB), India. He attained his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India. Ankit Nayak is an Assistant Professor at UPES, Dehradun, India. Prior to this, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the University of Hong Kong. He obtained his Ph.D. in 2020 from the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design & Manufacturing (IIITDM) Jabalpur. Surendra Singh Thakur is a Senior Project Engineer at 3D Engineering Automation LLP, Pune, India. He obtained his B.Tech from the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Surat, followed by his M.Tech and Ph.D. Vishal Francis is an Associate Professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering at Lovely Professional University, India. He obtained his PhD from the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing, Jabalpur, India. Aniket Nagargoje is an Assistant Professor at MIT Academy of Engineering, India. He obtained his BE from Savitribai Phule Pune University in 2014, his M.Tech from GGV, Bilaspur in 2017, and his Ph.D from Indian Institute of Information Technology Design and Manufacturing, Jabalpur in June 2022.
