Ranjan Kumar Ghadai is a distinguished academician with extensive research experience in the field of Materials Science and Nanotechnology. He earned his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and a ME in Production Engineering from the Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, India. Additionally, he holds a B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from Biju Patnaik University of Technology, Odisha, India. He has over 10 years of teaching and research experience. Currently, he is working as an Associate professor in the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department of Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India. His broad research area includes thin film coating deposition and characterization, Process Optimization, Multi Criteria Decision Making. Currently he is handling two sponsored projects as PI and one as Co-PI. His current h‐index is 25 and i10 index is 41.. He serves as an Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports and as an Associate Editor for Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering. He has edited eight books and four conference proceedings. Additionally, he is a reviewer for several peer-reviewed journals, including Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Tribology International, Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, Advances in Manufacturing, Surface and Interface, and Materials Chemistry and Physics, among othersProsun Mandal obtained his BE in Mechanical Engineering from Jadavpur University in 2010. After that, he joined Cognizant Technology Solutions (MNC). There, he worked as a Programmer Analyst for two years. He has done his ME in Production Engineering specialization from the Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur in 2014. After ME, he worked as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Neotia Institute of Technology Management and Science, Diamond Harbour for nine months. He received his Ph.D. from the IIEST Shibpur in 2020. Then he served as Temporary Faculty in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad for nine months. Currently, he working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Silchar. His research area is advanced machining, EDM, composite materials. He has published more than ten paper in highly repute international journals. He is a reviewer of some international journals like IJAMT, Journal of Engineering Manufacture, Journal of Process Mechanical Engineering, World Journal of Engineering, etc.Sujeet Kumar Chaubey earned his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Indore (IIT Indore). He completed his M.Tech in Manufacturing Systems Engineering from SLIET Punjab (Deemed University) and his B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from Gautam Buddha Technical University, Lucknow. Additionally, he holds a Diploma in Mechanical Engineering with a specialization in Power Plant from the Institute of Engineering and Rural Technology, Prayagraj. Currently, he is serving as an Assistant Research Professor at Marwadi University, Rajkot. He has a strong foundation in experimental research and has supervised six M.Tech dissertations and two B.Tech projects. His area of expertise includes Advanced Manufacturing Processes, particularly electrical discharge machining (EDM), wire-electrical discharge machining (WEDM), and hybrid machining techniques. He has authored several research papers published in reputed international journals and serves as a reviewer for numerous journals from prominent publishers, including Springer, Taylor and Francis, Sage Publications, MDPI, Hindawi, and IOPscience.