Biographical note

Dr. Mohit Tyagi is currently an Assistant Professor in the department of Industrial and Production Engineering at Dr. B. R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, India. He obtained his B.Tech. (Mechanical Engineering) 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 in 2015. His research interests include Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Corporate Social Responsibilities, System Optimization, Performance Measurement System, Data Science and Fuzzy Inference System. He has around 6 years of teaching and research experience. He has more than 55 publications in international and national journals.  

Dr. Anish Sachdeva is currently an Associate Professor in the department of Industrial and Production Engineering at Dr. B.R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, India. He obtained his B.Tech. (Industrial Engineering) from Regional Engineering College, Jalandhar (now National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar)  in 1994, M.Tech.(Industrial Engineering) from Punjab Technical University, Jalandhar in 2003, and Ph.D. (department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering), IIT Roorkee in 2008. He has published more than 100 research articles in international journals and conferences of high repute. He has guided 60 M.Tech. and 12 Ph.D. candidates. His academic life includes serving as a peer reviewer in journals, acting as session chair in international conferences and conducting training programs. His areas of interest include Reliability and Maintenance Engineering, Advanced Machining, Supply Chain Management, Stochastic Modeling, and System Simulation.

Dr. Vishal S Sharma is a Professor in the department of Industrial and Production Engineering at Dr. B. R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, India. Heobtained his Bachelor’s degree (Production Engineering) from Shivaji University, Kolhapur, in 1992, Master’s  degree in Mechanical (Production) Engineering from Punjab University, Chandigarh, in 1998, and his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Kurukshetra University in 2005. He also received a postdoctoral fellowship from ENSAM Cluny, France in 2010. He has three years of industrial exposure and 23 years of teaching experience at Dr. B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar. He has published more than 70 scientific papers in international journals and conferences, and edited more than 10 books and proceedings. His current research interests include additive manufacturing and machining, condition monitoring and industrial IOT/Industry 4.0.