The Application of Artificial Intelligence for Sustainability and a Zero Carbon Society

Dr. Rubee Singh is an Assistant Professor of HR at the Institute of Business Management, GLA University, India. She is also a Post-Doctoral (D.Litt.) Researcher at Kumaun University, Nainital, India. Dr. Singh earned her Ph.D. in Management from Noida International University, and an MBA in Human Resource Management from Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University, India. A prolific academic, she has authored and edited over 25 academic books and published more than 100 research papers in reputed journals indexed in SCI, ABDC-A, Scopus, and UGC. Her research excellence is reflected in her Google Scholar citation count exceeding 2000 with an H-index of 28. Her core research interests include Net Zero initiatives, Circular Economy, Digital Circular Economy, Sustainability, Digital HRM, Sustainable HRM, Industry 4.0, Artificial Intelligence, and Innovation Management. Dr. Singh has been the recipient of several prestigious awards, including the Best Researcher Award (for three consecutive years: 2022–23, 2023–24, and 2024–25) by GLA University, the Iconic Faculty Award (2019), the International Young Researcher Award (2021), and the Young Scientist Award (2020). 

Prof. Rajib Shaw is a professor in the Graduate School of Media and Governance in Keio University, Japan. He is also a senior fellow of the Institute of Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) Japan and the chairperson of the Sustainable Environment and Ecological Development Society (SEEDS) Asia and the Church World Service (CWS) Japan, two Japanese NGOs. He is a co-founder of a Delhi (India)-based social entrepreneur startup, the Resilience Innovation Knowledge Academy (RIKA). Earlier, he was the executive director of the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) and was a professor in Kyoto University. His expertise includes disaster governance, community-based disaster risk management, climate change adaptation, urban risk management, and disaster and environmental education. Professor Shaw was the chair of the United Nations Science Technology Advisory Group (STAG) for disaster risk reduction and currently is the co-chair of the Asia Pacific Science Technology Academic Advisory Group (APSTAAG). He is also the coordinating lead author (CLA) for the Asia chapter’s 6th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He is the editor-in-chief of the journal  Progress in Disaster Science  and series editor of a Springer book series on disaster risk reduction. Prof. Shaw has published 66 books and over 450 academic papers and book chapters.

Prof. Vikas Kumar  is the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Innovation) at the University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom. Previously, he served as the Associate Dean for Research, Innovation, and Enterprise at the Faculty of Business, Law and Social Sciences, Birmingham City University, UK. He is also a Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management. Prof. Kumar has over a decade of distinguished teaching and research experience. He earned his Ph.D. in Management from the University of Exeter, United Kingdom, and completed his Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) from the National Institute of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Ranchi (formerly NIFFT), India. He has published more than 350 journal articles and conference papers and has an outstanding research record with over 22,000 citations on Google Scholar and an H-index of 80. Prof. Kumar was recognized among the Top 1% of Highly Cited Researchers in 2024. For the third consecutive year (2022–2024), Stanford University and Elsevier have listed him among the Top 2% of Scientists Globally.