Dr A. N. R. Reddy is a PhD in Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering, currently working as a Professor & HOD of Mechanical Engineering at MRCET Campus. He is a life member of professional associations ORSI, ISTAM, IndACM, ISTE, EWB, SAE India, and ISSMO. He has received many academic excellence and research innovation awards like the Malaysian Government International Student Award ‘Malaysian International Scholarship’. His research interests include Mathematical Modelling, DOE & TRIZ, Bioenergy, Pyrolysis of Biomass, Synthesis of Nanomaterials, Engine Performance Analytics, Applied & Fluid mechanics, Spectrophotometry. Dr. Reddy, as a principle investigator, has successfully completed AICTE, Govt. of India sponsored research project “Multi-Objective Optimization of Production Process Parameters using Evolutionary Algorithms” and actively guiding PhD, PG and UG research projects. Dr A.N.R. is the organizing chair & editor for Springer book series SIST “Proceedings of Intelligent Manufacturing and Energy Sustainability”.Dr. Deepak Marla is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay). He has obtained Ph.D from IIT Bombay and had done his post-doctoral work from the Technical University of Denmark & University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His work is in the domain of micro/nano-manufacturing using advanced techniques that involve lasers, electric discharges, electrochemical reactions, plasmas, and micro-tools. His research focuses on gaining a fundamental insight into these processes through a synergetic use of multi-physics modeling and simulation, and experiments with an eye on addressing critical challenges at the process level. Dr Margarita N. Favorskaya received her engineering diploma from Rybinsk State Aviation Technological University, Russia, in 1980 and was awarded a Ph. D by S.-Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation, S.-Petersburg, in 1985. Since 1986 she is working in the Siberian State Aerospace University, Krasnoyarsk, in which she is responsible for the Digital Image and Videos Processing Laboratory. Presently, she is a Full Professor and the Head of Department of Informatics and Computer Techniques, Siberian State Aerospace University. Her main research interests are in the areas of digital image and videos processing, pattern recognition, fractal image processing, artificial intelligence, information technologies, and remote sensing. She has authored/ co-authored more than 130 publications. Margarita Favorskaya is a member of KES International organization and the IPC member of a number of National and International Conferences. She is on the editorial board of Int. J. Computer and Information Science and International Journal of Intelligent Decision Technology. She has a number of awards from the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation for significant contribution in educating and training a number of highly qualified specialists over a number of years.Dr Suresh Chandra Satapathy is a Ph.D in Computer Science Engineering, currently working as a Professor of School of Computer Engg and Dean- Research at KIIT (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneshwar, Odisha, India. He held the position of the National Chairman (Educational and Research) of Computer Society of India and am also a Senior Member of IEEE. His active research areas include Swarm Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Mining and Cognitive Sciences. He has more than 150 research publications in reputed journals and conference proceedings. Dr Satapathy has played an integral role in organizing more than 60 International Conferences in India as the Organizing Chair and edited more than 80 Book Volumes from Springer LNCS, AISC, LNEE and SIST Series as a Corresponding Editor. He is also a part of the Editorial board of IGI Global, Inderscience, Growing Science journals and also a Guest Editor for Arabian Journal of Science and Engg published by Springer. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of IJIDSS from Inderscience and Associate Editor of KES Journal from IOS press. He has been invited to and visited a number of global Universities like University of Leicester, London, NTU, Singapore, Duy Tan University, Vietnam, etc for delivering lecture and collaboration. Dr Satapathy was awarded the Leadership in Academia Award in India by ASSOCHEM for the year 2017.
