Biographical note

Dr. Anish Sachdeva is a Professor in the Industrial and Production Engineering Department at Dr. B. R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar, India. His areas of interest are Reliability and Maintenance Engineering, supply chain management, Optimization and Simulation of Production Systems, Quality Management. He obtained his B.Tech from Dr B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology (erstwhile REC Jalandhar), M.Tech from Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College Ludhiana and Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (India). He has guided 65 M Tech and 14 PhD students. He has over 150 publications in international and national journals and proceedings of international conferences to his credit. He has organized seven international conferences at NIT Jalandhar as Organizing Secretary and more than 20 short term courses in his area of expertise. He has organized several workshops and training programs for academic institutes and companies. He has edited a number of journals of repute as guest editors as well as volumes of books reputed publishers.  He also shares responsibilities of editorial board member in various international journals.  Pradeep Kumar is working as a Professor in the Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India. He obtained his B.E. (Industrial Engineering) in 1982; M.E. (Production Engineering) in 1989; and Ph.D. in Manufacturing and Production Engineering in 1994- all these degrees from University of Roorkee (Now, IIT Roorkee). He has been a visiting faculty at West Virginia University USA, Wayne State University USA, AIT Bangkok, and King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia. He served the Delhi Technological University as Vice-Chancellor during 2014-15. He has published / presented more than 600 research papers in International and National Journals and proceedings of International and National Conferences. He has completed numerous consultancy projects of various organizations and sponsored research projects. He has 4 patent disclosures. His research interests include Advanced Manufacturing Processes; Microwave Joining of Metals, Metal Casting; Industrial Engineering; Supply Chain Management (SCM), Quality Engineering; and Production & Operations Management.
 Om Prakash Yadav is working as a Professor and Interim Department Chair, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, North Dakota State University, Fargo. He obtained his B.E. (Mechanical Engineering) from Malviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur in 1986; M.Sc. (Industrial Engineering) from National Institute of Industrial Engineering, Bombay in 1992; and Ph.D. (Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering) from Wayne State University, Detroit (USA) in 2002. He has published more than 120 scientific papers in international journals and conferences of high repute and edited more than 15 books and proceedings. He has successfully completed 29 fully funded research & consultancy projects.  His research interests include Quality and reliability engineering, production & Operations Management, supply chain (logistics), inventory modeling, lean manufacturing, quantitative Modeling, statistical analysis, fuzzy logic and neural networks.
 Dr. Mohit Tyagi is Assistant Professor in Department of Industrial and Production Engineering at Dr. B. R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar, India. He has obtained his B. Tech (Mechanical Engineering) with HONS from UPTU Lucknow in 2008 and M. Tech. (Product Design and Development) with Gold Medal from MNNIT Allahabad in 2010. He did his Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (India) in 2015. His areas of research are Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Corporate Social Responsibilities, Performance Measurement System, Data Science and Fuzzy Inference System. He has around 7 years of teaching and research experience. He has guided 18 PG dissertations and 15 UG projects. He is presently supervising 02 M. Tech. and 03 PhD scholars. He has around 95 publications in international/national journals and proceedings of international conferences and book chapters in reputed publishers of his credit. Dr. Mohit Tyagi is reviewer of many international journal of repute like International Journal of Industrial Engineering: Theory, Application and Practices, Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, International Journal of Logistics System Management, and Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management, Information Systems, Grey Systems: Theory and Applications etc.