Manufacturing Strategies and Systems

Ajay Kumar is currently serving as Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering in School of Engineering and Technology, JECRC University, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. He received his Ph.D. in the field of Advanced Manufacturing and Automation from Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology, Hisar, India, after B.Tech. (Hons.) in mechanical engineering and M.Tech. (Distinction) in Manufacturing and Automation. His areas of research include Biomedical Engineering, Incremental Sheet Forming, Artificial Intelligence, Sustainable Materials, Robotics and Automation, Additive Manufacturing, Mechatronics, Smart Manufacturing, Industry 4.0, Industrial Engineering Systems, Waste Management, and Optimization Techniques. He has over 100 publications in international journals of repute, including SCOPUS, Web of Science, and SCI indexed database and refereed international conferences. He has organized various national and international events, including an international conference on Mechatronics and Artificial Intelligence (ICMAI-2021) as conference chair. He is currently organizing international conference on Artificial Intelligence, Advanced Materials, and Mechatronics Systems (AIAMMS-2023) as conference chair. He has more than 20 national and international patents to his credit. He has supervised more than eight M.Tech., Ph.D. scholars and numerous undergraduate projects/theses. He has a total of 15 years of experience in teaching and research. He has served as a guest editor for many reputed journals. He has contributed to many international conferences/symposiums as a session chair, expert speaker, and member of the editorial board. He has won several proficiency awards during the course of his career, including merit awards and best teacher awards. He has also co-authored and co-edited more than 15 books and proceedings. He has also authored many in-house course notes, lab manuals, monographs, and invited chapters in books. He has organized a series of Faculty Development Programs, International Conferences, workshops, and seminars for researchers, Ph.D., UG, and PG level students. He is associated with many research, academic, and professional societies in various capacities.

Parveen Kumar is currently serving as Assistant Professor and Head in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Rawal Institute of Engineering and Technology, Faridabad, Haryana, India. Currently, he is pursuing a Ph.D. from National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, Haryana, India. He completed his B.Tech. (Hons.) from Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, India, and M.Tech. (Distinction) in Manufacturing and Automation from Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, India. His areas of research include Intelligent Manufacturing Systems, Materials, Mechatronics Systems, Advanced Materials, Industry 4.0, Die Less Forming, Design of Automotive Systems, Additive Manufacturing, CAD/CAM and Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Internet of Things in Manufacturing, and Multi-Objective Optimization Techniques. He has over 50 publications in international journals of repute including SCOPUS, Web of Science, and SCI indexed database and refereed international conferences. He has eight national and international patents in his credit. He has supervised several M.Tech. scholars and numerous undergraduate projects/theses. He has a total of 13 years of experience in teaching and research. He has co-authored/co-edited several books. He has organized a series of Faculty Development Programs, workshops, and seminars for researchers and UG level students. He is the Editor of book series on "Industrial and Manufacturing Systems and Technologies: Sustainable and Intelligent Perspectives," CRC Press, Taylor & Francis.

Ashish Kumar Srivastava completed his Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology (ISM), Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India, in February 2018 and is currently working as Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Muzaffarpur Institute of Technology (MIT), Muzaffarpur, Department of Science, Technology and Technical Education, Government of Bihar, India. He is a good learner and listener and contributed a lot to society through his academics, administration, and research work.

As a researcher, he has published more than 120 research papers in various journals of repute, indexed in SCI/SCIE/SCOPUS. He has also presented more than 20 research papers at various international and national conferences in India and abroad. Dr. Srivastava is among the Top 2% Scientists of the world listed by Stanford University, USA, and Elsevier B.V. in 2022 and 2023. He has successfully completed two research-funded projects under the collaborative research scheme of TEQIP-III. He presently received a grant of Rs 10.19 lakhs from the Council of Science and Technology, Uttar Pradesh (CST-UP). Recently he has published nine Indian patents which are likely to be granted in the upcoming years. Dr. Srivastava has also worked with the Institute of the Geonics of the CAS, Ostrava-Poruba, Czech Republic, and Slovak Research and Development Agency (Slovak Republic) under contract No. APVV-207-12 to carry out his Ph.D. research work related to Abrasive Waterjet Cutting and Turning. The current research areas of Dr. Srivastava are 3D Printing (Metal and Fiber), Friction Stir Additive Manufacturing (Through Robotic Milling, CNC Milling, and Conventional VMC), Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing (Through Robotic Welding), Friction Stir welding, Friction Stir Processing, Mechanical and Electromagnetic Stir Casting, Abrasive Waterjet Cutting and Turning, and Wire Electric Discharge Cutting and Turning.

Lokesh Saharan is working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering at the University of Texas at Dallas, USA, and has more than ten year of teaching and research experience. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Dallas in December 2017. His primary research interests include rehabilitation robotics, smart materials, soft robotics, and additive manufacturing. Dr. Saharan has authored several research articles in peer-reviewed journals and conferences along with a book chapter. He recently received a UT System Rising STARs grant with a matching UTPB school of engineering grant worth $470,000. Currently, Dr. Saharan is also leading the Advanced Manufacturing Center in the College of Engineering. This center is funded by $1.1M from the Odessa Development Corporation. Moreover, he has served as a reviewer for several peer-reviewed conferences and journals.

Before joining UTPB, he was an assistant teaching professor at Penn State Behrend, where he developed new courses for the biomedical minor in the mechanical engineering department. Besides, Dr. Saharan worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Miami University of Ohio for one year, where he contributed to the Miami University Center for Assistive Technology. Before moving to the United States, he also worked as Assistant Professor (Instruction) of mechanical engineering at the National Institute of Technology. His research interests are Additive Manufacturing, Rehabilitation Robotics, Smart Materials and Structures, Engineering Education, Biomechanics, and Soft Robotics.