Biographical note

Prof. Nita received her PhD in Statistics from Gujarat University in 1994. From February 1990 till now she 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. Prof. Nita has published 13 monograph, 5 textbooks, and 475+ peer-reviewed research papers. Four edited books were prepared for IGI-Global and Springer with a coeditor. Her papers are published in high impact Elsevier, Inderscience and Taylor and Francis journals. She is the author of 14 books. Dr. Poonam Prakash Mishra has received her Ph. D degree in year 2010 in Mathematics and since then she is associated Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University. She also holds a master’s degree in business administration (MBA) - operations management. Her core research area includes formulation, analysis and optimization of the problems using different Optimization Techniques. She has more than 30 publications with 8 chapters in edited books and made 10 papers presentation at national and international forum.