Jayakrishna Kandasamy is a Professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering at the Vellore Institute of Technology University, India. Dr. Jayakrishna’s research is focused on the design and management of manufacturing systems and supply chains to enhance efficiency, productivity, and sustainability performance. More recent research is in the area of developing tools and techniques to enable value creation through sustainable manufacturing, including methods to facilitate more sustainable product design for closed-loop material flow in industrial symbiotic setup, and developing sustainable products using hybrid bio composites. Rajyalakshmi G received the Ph.D. degree in Production Engineering in 2015 and the M.Tech degree in Industrial Engineering in 2003 from Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati, India. She has more than 19 years of teaching and research experience in Mechanical Engineering with special emphasis in Sustainable manufacturing, Waste management, Optimization.