Biography Dr. Amit Soni has rich experience of 22 years with academic and administrative exposure of different organizations in various capacities, which includes 3 years of industrial experience in RRVPNL, Jaipur. He is currently working as Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Manipal University Jaipur and actively contributing to administrative role as Director SEEC (School of Electrical, Electronics & Communication). In addition to this he also has administrative role as In-Charge CEO, Atal Incubation Center (AIC), Manipal University Jaipur. He had worked as Director (International Collaborations), Manipal University Jaipur and contributed towards MoU’s/MoA’s with top QS Ranked Universities, Faculty & Student exchanges, successfully organizing DoIC Flagship events. He had worked as Director (Quality & Compliance), Manipal University Jaipur and successfully contributed to NIRF Ranking 2021, AQAR-1 and NBA visit for 5 Engineering Departments. He has published 110 research papers which include reputed SCI International Journals (31) with high impact Q1 & Q2 journals and Scopus indexed conferences (79) at National and International level. He has published several book chapters and have contributed as ‘Lead Editor’ in LNEE Springer publications. He has successfully supervised 5 PhDs and currently 6 research scholars are currently working under his supervision. He has worked as PI for DST SERB as and Co-PI for CSIR Research project funded research project in collaboration with MLSU, Udaipur and NIT, Uttarakhand. He is a regular reviewer of research articles for many high impact international journals. He is life member of Optica, Solar Energy Society of India, Member ISTE, India and IEEE, USA. His research interests include Conventional Power and Renewable Energy Sources, Power System Stability, Solar Photovoltaic Materials: Material Characterization, Semiconductor Device Physics, Bulk & Thin Film Technology, Photoluminescence and Power Quality Improvements. Dr Dharmendra Tripathi has been working as Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics, National Institute of Technology, Uttarakhand. Prior to joining NIT Uttarakhand, he has worked more than 12 years as faculty member (Associate Professor, Assistant Professor) in various reputed institutions like Manipal University Jaipur, NIT Delhi, IIT Ropar and BITS Pilani Hyderabad. He completed his PhD in Applied Mathematics (Mathematical Modelling of Physiological flows) in 2009 from Indian Institute of Technology BHU and MSc in Mathematics from Banaras Hindu University. He has supervised 08 PhD students and 03 are working under his supervision. He has also guided various B.Tech projects. He has published more than 200 papers in reputed international journals, 03 edited Books in Springer, 01 edited Book in CRC, 10 book chapters and presented more than 40 papers in International and National Conferences. His research h-index is 54 and i-10 index is 164 and his papers have more than 7870 citations as per google scholar. He has delivered more than 100 lectures as Invited Speaker, Keynote Speaker and Resource person in various conferences, workshops, FDP, STTP, STC, refresher courses, etc. He has received the best faculty award in 2022 from NIT Uttarakhand for outstanding contribution in teaching, research and administration. He has been listed in top 2% researchers/scientists across the World as per Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators in the year 2020, year-2021 and year-2022. He has also received the President Award in 2017 by the Manipal University Jaipur for outstanding contribution. Recipient of Prof PR Sharma Memorial award from International Academy for Physical Sciences (IAPS) in 2021; Associate Fellow of IAPS since 2022. He has been recognized by the Head of Institution for excellent work and contribution for the NIT Uttarakhand in year 2020. He has also recognized by various reputed journals for reviewing the articles and editing the special issues for the journals. He was awarded some prestigious INAE fellowships in 2015 & 2016, 2017 and 2018, postdoctoral fellowships (NBHM, Dr. D.S. Kothari and Indo-EU) in 2010 etc. He has also organized various events like National and International conferences/STC/STTP /FDP/Workshops/Winter Schools on various emerging topics. He is life time member of various professional bodies, member of editorial board of five journals, and reviewer of more than 50 International Journals. He has more than 20 International research collaborators in various countries, USA, UK, Botswana, China, Malesia, etc. and National collaborators in IITs. He has been discharging second time additional administrative responsibilities as Dean (Student Welfare) at NIT Uttarakhand since March 2022 and I/c Registrar since July 2022. He has already discharged many administrative responsibilities of the Institutes like I/c Registrar, Dean (R&C), CVO, Dean (SW), Chief Warden, and Chairman of various Institutes committee.His research work is focused on the mathematical modelling and simulation of biological flows in deformable domains, Peristaltic flow of Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids, Dynamics of various infectious diseases; microfluidics; CFD, Biomechanics; Heat Transfer; Nanofluids; Energy Systems; Numerical methods; etc.Dr. Jagrati Sahariya, is working as an Associate Professor, in Department of Physics, National Institute of Technology, Uttarakhand. She is having teaching experience of more than 11 years. Dr. Sahariya has been working in the field of γ-ray scattering and band structure calculations since last 11 years. She has received her Ph.D. degree in 2012 in the field of electronic structure calculation and Compton scattering. As a part of her Ph.D. thesis, she has studied electronic and magnetic properties of a variety of technological important materials. Dr. Sahariya has sufficient expertise in using different band structure methods like full potential linearized augmented plane wave, linear combinations of atomic orbitals and spin polarized relativistic Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker to compute electronic structure, optical and magnetic properties and Compton profiles of variety of materials.She has published more than 100 papers in peer reviewed international journals of high impact factor and repute conferences proceedings, 10 book chapter, 01 edited book in CRC, 01 edited book in Springer. She has supervised 2 Ph.D. students and currently 2 are working under her guidance. She has also executed 2 research projects funded by SERB, New Delhi and research project sponsored by CSIR, New Delhi is ongoing. She has organized several conferences, workshop, FDP and STC and edited the 4 Scopus indexed conference proceedings. She is reviewer for several reputed International Journals of high impact factors. Her research interests include Renewable Energy Sources, Solar Photovoltaic Materials: Material Characterization, Semiconductor Device Physics, Bulk & Thin Film Technology, Charge and Magnetic Compton Scattering. Dr. Kamal Nayan Sharma is working as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry in Amity School of Applied Sciences, Amity University Haryana, Gurugram. He has recently been honored with the prestigious SIRE (SERB International Research Experience) fellowship by Science and Engineering Research Board (Govt. of India). Presently, he is on deputation as a SERB-SIRE awardee at the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand for 6 months. During this six-month period, he is engaged in research collaboration with Associate Prof. Dr. Graham C. Saunders. Before joining Amity University Haryana, Dr. Sharma served as an Assistant Professor at Vivekanand Global University in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. He earned his Ph.D. from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi and subsequently completed a young scientist research project sponsored by SERB, New Delhi, at MNIT Jaipur as the Principal Investigator. Dr. Sharma's scholarly work is widely recognized, with 31 publications in esteemed international journals of high impact factors, such as Nanoscale, Organometallics, Chemical Communications, Dalton Transaction, Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, Tetrahedron Letters, etc. has more than 850 citations. Dr. Sharma has also visited University of Cape Town, Cape Town for research work under Department of Science and Technology (Govt. of India) sponsored Indo-South African Research project. He has served as reviewer in various international journals also. He currently guides two Ph.D. students and has supervised several master's students in their project work.
