Hybrid Materials and Advanced Manufacturing

Prof. Dr. Rajesh Kumar Verma is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Harcourt Butler Technical University (HBTU) Kanpur India. He was an Additional Controller of Examinations and Finance Controller (FC) of HBTU. He has a PhD (Engineering) from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. He is a Chartered Engineer by the Institution of Engineers (India). He is actively involved in teaching and research in nanomaterial, polymer composites, modeling, simulation, optimization, advanced machining, and machinability estimation of composites/nanocomposite materials. Dr. Verma has supervised 6 PhD and 13 Master's theses; with another 5 PhDs ongoing. He has published over 150 peer-reviewed articles in major refereed journals and conference proceedings. The e-content and courses he developed are widely used. He has over 10 completed and ongoing research and development (R&D). He has filed 15 patents and 3 copyright registered documents in India. Dr. Verma received the prestigious Research Excellence Award-2023 (REA-2023), Research Excellence Award- 2024 (REA-2024) and Research Excellence Award- 2025 (REA-2025) the for his exemplary research work. His research proposal secured second rank in competition, from Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board (UPPCB), Lucknow in 2018, and received the Best Paper Awards at the PRIME2021 and the ICMPC2021 conferences. He is a reviewer for various international journals. Moreover, Dr. Verma has been invited as Keynote/Invited Speaker, Section Chair, and member for several international conferences with themes in Mechanical & Production Engineering, Emerging Materials, and Manufacturing Science. He has developed various nanomaterials for structural applications and proposed hybrid optimization modules recognized by multiple peer-reviewed journal publishers.

Dr. Devendra Kumar Singh is a Research Associate-I in an R&D-sponsored DST project at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Harcourt Butler Technical University, Kanpur, India. Also, he has worked on R&D sponsored by Uttar Pradesh Council of Science and Technology (UPCST). He is a Life Member of the Asian Polymer Association. His research interests focus on nanomaterial synthesis and development, Bio nanocomposites, numerical modeling, and surface texturing. He has published 13 peer-reviewed articles in refereed international journals and conference proceedings. Additionally, he has filed 4 design patents and 1 process patents, 2 edited book, 2 book chapters and has 1 copyright registered document in India. He has also utilized various nanomaterial-reinforced bio nanocomposites for biomedical applications and developed hybrid metaheuristic optimizing methodologies recognized by multiple peer-reviewed journals and book publishers.

Dr. Arpan Kumar Mondal is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the National Institute of Technical Teachers' Training and Research (NITTTR) in Kolkata. He has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati (2018), focusing on submerged arc welding. Dr. Mondal also holds an M Tech from the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Rourkela and a B Tech from the West Bengal University of Technology, Kolkata. His research interests lie in manufacturing engineering, with a significant focus on welding processes, composite materials, and numerical modeling. Dr. Mondal has published extensively, authoring over 20 journal papers and numerous conference papers. He has also contributed to several book chapters in the field of mechanical engineering. In addition to his publications, Dr. Mondal holds several patents, highlighting his contributions to innovation in mechanical engineering. He has been actively involved in teaching and research since 2011, first as a teaching assistant at IIT Guwahati and later as an assistant professor at NITTTR Kolkata.

Prof. Dr. Panagiotis Kyratsis ("http://www.kyratsis.com"www.kyratsis.com) is the Head of the Department of Product and Systems Design Engineering, University of Western Macedonia, Greece. He is the Director of the Institute of Traditional Architecture and Cultural Heritage, University Research Centre "TEMENUS" and Director of the Computational Design and Digital Fabrication Research Laboratory. Prof. Panagiotis Kyratsis has a PhD in CAD-based manufacturing process simulations from the Department of Production Engineering and Management, Technical University of Crete, Greece. He holds a diploma in Mechanical Engineering from the Aristotle's University of Thessaloniki, Greece, and a M.Sc. in Automotive Product Engineering and M.Sc. in CAD/CAM from Cranfield University, UK, in 1997 and 1999 respectively. He has been involved in a number of industrial projects and he has a great deal of expertise in both the design and the manufacturing aspects of product development. His research interests include manufacturing, machining, CAD/CAM/CAE systems, product design, reverse engineering and prototyping. He has published more than 20 books and more than 180 papers in scientific journals and international conferences. He is a member of the editorial board and reviewer to numerous scientific journals and holds 12 industrial designs and two patents registered with the Greek Patent Office.