Dr. Montaz Ali currently is a professor at the School of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics (CSAM), University of the Witwatersrand. He is also an associate faculty at African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS), in Muizenberg, Cape Town. Prof Ali does research in global optimization, optimal control, operations research, statistics, and applied mathematics. He is a member of a mine planning optimization and valuation research group, University of the Witwatersrand, and a member of the South African Mathematical Society. Prof Ali was a member of the International Scientific Panel, Optimization and Systems Engineering Research Group, ABO Akademi University, Turku, Finland, 2012 2016. His research interests include stochastic methods for global optimization; mixed integer nonlinear programming problems; optimal control theory; operations research; and industrial mathematics.
Prof. Ajit Kumar Verma is a Professor (Technical Safety), Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Haugesund, and has been in Norway since 2012. He was a Professor /Senior (HAG) scale Professor for around 15 years at IIT Bombay with the Reliability Engineering/Department of Electrical Engg. He was an adjunct at the University of Stavanger, Norway and has been a Guest Professor at the Luleå University of Technology for the past several years. He was awarded (2017) Honorary Professor at Amity University, India and also a Life Time Achievement awards at IIT Madras by SRESA and also recently at Kurukshetra University in 2024. He has supervised/co-supervised 40 PhDs and over 100 Masters theses( IIT Bombay, India; HVL, Norway; Univ. of Gåvle, Sweden; LJM Univ, UK; WMG, Warwick Univ, UK) . He has jointly edited a dozen books published by Springer and has jointly authored 8 books. He has over 250 publications in various journals and conferences. Springer has published a book in 2020 to honour him for his research contributions. He has served as a Guest Editor of over a dozen Special Issues of various journals including IEEE Transactions besides being the patron and founding editor/editor in chief in various journals. He has been a Patron/General Chair/ Conference Chair of various International Conferences.
Dr. Om Prakash Verma is presently associated with Dr. B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar, Punjab, India since January 2018 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Instrumentation and Control Engineering. He has almost 11 years of teaching experience. He did his Ph.D. from IIT Roorkee, M. Tech. from Dr. B R Ambedkar NIT Jalandhar and B.E. from Dr. B R Ambedkar University Agra. He is presently working on ISRO Sponsored Project as a PI. He has published more than 30 research papers in SCI/Scopus/ESI indexed Journals. He has recently published a paper in Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, (IF: 12.110). He has guided 4 M. Tech. students and supervising 6 PhD Students.
Dr. Michael Onyema Edeh is currently the Head of Department, Mathematics and Computer Science at Coal City University
