Prof. Kapil Gupta is working as Full Professor in the Dept. of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Technology at the University of Johannesburg. He obtained Ph.D. in mechanical engineering with specialization in Advanced Manufacturing, after his Masters in computer integrated manufacturing and Bachelors in mechanical engineering. He has also completed a postgraduate diploma in higher education and short learning programme in artificial intelligence in 4IR. He has fifteen years of professional experience in academic and research fields. Advanced machining processes, sustainable manufacturing, green machining, precision engineering, gear technology, sustainability, and industry 4.0 are the areas of his interest. He is a recognized C rated (established) researcher by National Research Foundation of South Africa and a member of the South African Young Academy of Science. He has authored and edited 20 international books on hybrid machining, advanced gear manufacturing, micro and precision manufacturing, spark erosion machining, and sustainable manufacturing. He has also authored over 150 SCI and Scopus Journal and International Conference articles. Prof. Gupta has supervised 9 PhD and 18 Master students and hosted 5 postdoctoral research fellows. He is serving on the editorial boards of more than 5 international journals, including the role of associate editor in IMechE´s Journal of Process Mechanical Engineering (Part E), and editorial board member at Facta Universitatis, Series: Mechanical Engineering (Q1). He is also serving as an editor for 2 regular book series advanced materials processing and manufacturing and industrial engineering and management of the reputed publisher CRC Press. He has successfully completed research, training, and teaching projects funded by agencies such as Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) and National Research Foundation (South Africa). He has also carried out teaching and learning based project where he has developed a virtual lab for manufacturing engineering and published project outcomes in conference articles and book chapters. He has won best paper awards in international conferences and people’s choice award for poster presentation. He is registered as a professional engineering technologist with Engineering Council of South Africa, and member of South African Institution of Industrial Engineering and South African Institution of Mechanical Engineering.Dr. Pallab Sarmah is a dedicated professional serving as Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Technology at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He earned his Ph.D. in the area of metal matrix composites and modern machining processes from NIT Silchar, Assam, India. He has completed his M.Tech. from NERIST, Arunachal Pradesh, India with a specialization in computer-integrated manufacturing and automation. He has seven years of experience in research fields. He has published various articles in the area of composite materials manufacturing and modern machining processes including international journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings. He has completed lots of Master's and Bachelor's student project work utilizing various modern manufacturing processes such as electrical discharge machining, wire-electrical discharge machining, ultrasonic machining, and photochemical machining processes.Prof. Promod Kumar Patowari is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at National Institute of Technology (NIT) Silchar, Assam. He has joined NIT Silchar as faculty member in the year 1995. He obtained his B.Tech degree (Mechanical Engineering) from NERIST, Itanagar, M.E. (Production Engineering) from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, and Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur. His major areas of research include Advanced/Non-traditional Machining, Micro-Manufacturing and Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM). He has published around 80 papers in international journals and around 70 papers in international and national conferences. He has published around 25 books and book chapters. He has supervised 13 PhD scholars and 38 MTech students. He along with his students has 3 granted patents. Currently, he is the life member of professional bodies like Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE), The Institution of Engineers (India) and Institute of Smart Structures and Systems (ISSS).
