Prof. Nita H. Shah received her PhD in Statistics from Gujarat University in 1994. Prof. Nita is HoD of Department of Mathematics in Gujarat University, India. She is post-doctoral visiting research fellow of University of New Brunswick, Canada. Prof. Nita's research interests include inventory modeling in supply chain, robotic modeling, Mathematical modeling of infectious diseases, image processing, Dynamical systems and its applications etc. She has completed 3-UGC sponsored projects. She has published 13 monograph, 5 textbooks, and 475+ peer-reviewed research papers. Five edited books are prepared for IGI-Global and Springer. Her papers are published in high impact journals. By the Google scholar, the total number of citations is over 3268 and the maximum number of citations for a single paper is over 174. The H-index is 25 and i-10 index is 83 up to February 2021. She has guided 28 Ph. D. Students and 15 M.Phil. Students till now. Eight students are pursuing research for their Ph. D. degree and one post-doctoral fellow of D. S. Kothari-UGC. She has travelled in USA, Singapore, Canada, South Africa, Malaysia, and Indonesia for giving talks. She is Vice-President of Operational Research Society of India. She is council member of Indian Mathematical Society.Mandeep Mittal is Head and Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics, Amity Institute of Applied Sciences, Amity University, Noida. He also served as Dean of Students Activities at Amity School of Engineering and Technology, Delhi, for nine years, and worked as Head, Department of Mathematics in the same institute for one year. He earned his post-doctorate from Hanyang University, South Korea, 2016, Ph.D. (2012) from the University of Delhi, India, and post-graduation in Applied Mathematics from IIT Roorkee, India (2000). He has published more than 70 research papers in international journals and international conferences. He has edited five research books with international publishers like Springer, and is a series editor of Springer series Inventory Optimization. He is a member of editorial boards of Revista Investigacion Operacional, Journal of Control and Systems Engineering, and Journal of Advances in Management Sciences and Information Systems.
