Dr. Debi Prasad Mishra, former Director of NITTTR Kolkata, is currently a Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK). He also serves as an Adjunct Professor at the Centre for Indian Knowledge Systems, National Institute of Technology Calicut, and is the Chairman of the Board of Governors, Government College of Engineering, Kalahandi. His research interests include propulsion, combustion, and atomization. Dr. Mishra has previously held the prestigious Indian Oil Golden Jubilee Professional Chair at IIT Kanpur. Over the course of his career, he has received numerous awards and recognitions. He has authored five textbooks and twelve edited volumes in the areas of combustion and propulsion, and holds five patents. He has published more than 283 research papers in leading international and national journals and conferences. Dr. Subrata Mondal is currently a Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technical Teachers’ Training and Research (NITTTR) Kolkata, Salt Lake City, West Bengal, India. His research area of interests includes nanomaterials, biomaterials, shape memory polymer, metal matrix and polymer matrix composites/nanocomposites. So far, Dr. Mondal has 61 SCI journal papers, two USA patents, twenty-two book chapters (published/accepted), and 23 conferences. Total citation of his work is over 5500, h-index 31 and i-10 index 54. He has reviewed research proposals from USA-Israel BARD fund and FONDECYT-CHILE (Chile’s National Research Grant), Republic of Chile. Currently, Dr. Mondal is an editorial board member for the Journal of Chemistry (SCI journal) Wiley. Dr. Mrinal Kaushik has been an Associate Professor in the Aerospace Engineering Department at IIT Kharagpur since October 2020. From May 2013 to October 2020, he served as an Assistant Professor in the same department. Prior to that, he held the position of Assistant Professor at the Defence Institute of Advanced Technology in Pune. His professional experience also includes working as a CAE Engineer at General Motors Technical Center in Bangalore, a Research Scientist at the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) at VSSC in Trivandrum, and a Senior Software Engineer at Tata Consultancy Services in Mumbai. Dr. Kaushik earned his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from IIT Kanpur in 2012, following his M.Tech in 2003 and B.Tech in 1999, also from IIT Kanpur. His research interests focus on jet control and aeroacoustics, as well as shock-wave/boundary-layer interactions. He has published 44 articles in international journals (SCI/SCIE), 33 articles in international and national conference proceedings (SCOPUS), and has 16 patents (filed/granted). In addition to his research work, Dr. Kaushik has authored 4 textbooks for engineering students: Instrumentation and Measurements in Compressible Flows (CRC Press, Taylor & Francis, USA, 2023), Fundamentals of Gas Dynamics (Springer Nature, Singapore, 2022), Theoretical and Experimental Aerodynamics (Springer Nature, Singapore, 2019), and Essentials of Aircraft Armaments (Springer Nature, Singapore, 2016). He has also written a monograph titled Innovative Passive Control Techniques for Supersonic Jet Mixing (Lambert Academic Publishing, Saarbrücken, Germany, 2012).
