Dr. Amit Chaudhary is currently a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Cell, Developmental, and Integrative Biology at The University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL, 35294-0006, USA. Prior to this, Dr. Chaudhary worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Polymer Simulation and Characterization Lab in the Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, 400076, India. He completed his Ph.D. in Biotechnology at the Department of Biotechnology, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad, 211004, India. Dr. Chaudhary also holds an M.Tech. in Bioinformatics from the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad, 211015, India, and Bachelor of Pharmacy from the United Institute of Pharmacy, Allahabad, 211008, India. Dr. Chaudhary's research interests span a broad range of topics, including transcriptomics analysis, molecular modeling, molecular docking, molecular dynamics simulations, phylogenetic analysis, protein-protein/gene-gene interaction, and functional and pathways analysis of proteins/genes. Prof. (Dr.) Sushanta Kumar Sethi is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering at IIT Dharwad since July 2023. Prior to this, Dr. Sethi worked as a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science (MEMS) at IIT Bombay. In February 2021, he successfully completed his Ph.D. in the Department of Polymer and Process Engineering at IIT Roorkee. Dr. Sethi holds an M.Tech. from IIT Kharagpur and a B.Tech. from BPUT, Odisha. His research interests encompass various areas such as computational materials science, self-clean coatings, functional nanomaterials/quantum dots and their applications, multi-scale molecular modeling and simulations of polymer materials, development of novel and environmentally sustainable polymer composites and nanocomposites, as well as coatings and adhesives. Prof. (Dr.) Akarsh Verma is currently working as an assistant professor at the University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES), India. He obtained a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, India, and did his postdoctoral research work at Osaka University (Japan) and Brigham Young University (USA). His areas of interest are computational mechanics, computational chemistry, quantum mechanics, molecular dynamics, nanocomposites, etc.
