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Dr. Inderdeep Singh completed his Bachelor of Technology(Mechanical Engineering) in 1998 from the National Institute of Technology (erstwhile REC) Hamirpur with Honors. He completed his Masters and PhD from Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi in 2000 and 2004, respectively. His doctoral research work was awarded by the Foundation for Innovation and Technology Transfer (FITT) as the ‘Best Industry Relevant PhD Project’ during the session 2004 -05. Dr. Singh is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)Roorkee. He has published more than 180 articles in international and national journals and conferences. He has authored a book titled Primary and Secondary Manufacturing of Polymer Matrix Composites and has also contributed 15 book chapters in the broad area of composite materials. His current research focus is towards developing fully biodegradablegreen composites. Dr. Pramendra Kumar Bajpai is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Manufacturing Processes and Automation Engineering at Netaji Subhas University of Technology, New Delhi. He completed his PhD from the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. His major research areas include processing of polymer composites and green composites, machining aspects of composites, and FEM modeling of composites. He has published several research articles in journals of repute. He has also contributed many book chapters published by noted publishing houses. He is currently working as an editor of  two contributed volumes on processing of polymer composites.Dr. Kuldeep Panwar is currently working as Associate Professor & Head of Mechanical and Automation  Engineering  Department  at  Delhi  Technical  Campus,  Greater Noida.  He completed his Bachelors of Engineering from B.T.K.I.T, Dwarahat (erstwhile KEC) in 2009, and his Masters in Thermal Engineering in  2012. He completed his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar in 2016. His doctoral research area was analysis of thermal and resistance characteristics of fixed-bed regenerator with small D/dp ratio. He has published more than 30 research articles in peer-reviewed international journals and conferences. He has one design patent to his credit. He has authored a book titled Effect of Insolation on Efficiency of Solar Plate Collectors and has also contributed as an editor in four conference proceedings.

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