Biographical note

Deepak Sharma is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India. He received his Ph.D. and M.Tech. Degrees from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India. His broad areas of research include optimization and soft computing techniques for design and manufacturing, digital twin, predictive maintenance, structural topology optimization, and evolutionary multi-objective optimization. He has supervised 5 Ph.D. and 27 Master’s students, and he has continuously been involved in many sponsored and consultancy projects from SERB, DST, TIDF, and the Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises. He has published more than 70 technical papers in journals and conferences. He is an IEEE member.

Sachin Singh Gautam is an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India. He received his Ph.D. and M.Tech. Degrees from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India. His broad areas of research include computational mechanics specifically isogeometric analysis, contact problems, and machine learning applications in finite elements especially contact problems. He has supervised 7 Ph.D.s, 20 master students, and many bachelor students. He has published 3 edited books, 51 journal papers, 23 books chapters, 8 referred conference proceeding papers, and 110 conference publications. Prof. Gautam is currently involved in development of contact and isogeometric modules for FEAST® software being developed by VSSC, ISRO as part of IMPRINT II.C project.

Tapan K. Mankodi is an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India. He received his M.Tech+Ph.D. dual degree from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India. His broad areas of research include computational methods, from computational chemistry algorithms to molecular dynamics simulations to rarefied gas dynamics (nonlinear coupled constitutive relation (NCCR) and direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC)) to conventional finite volume method-based computational gas dynamics algorithms. He is supervising many Ph.D. and Master’s students and involved in various sponsored projects. He has published 27 articles in peer-reviewed international journals and conferences.

Ujjwal K. Saha is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. He received his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India, in 1996. He has more than 27 years of teaching, research, and administrative experience. Currently, his broad areas of research include aerospace propulsion, turbomachinery, applied aerodynamics, wind energy, and internal combustion engines. He has supervised 14 Ph.D. and 72 Master’s students, besides supervising several research and consultancy projects. He has published more than 200 technical papers in journals and conferences. He is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, USA.