Kanak Kalita received his B.E in mechanical engineering from RGTU, Bhopal, India; M.E and Ph.D. in aerospace engineering and applied mechanics from Indian Institute of Engineering, Science & Technology, Shibpur, India. He has over 6 years of teaching, research and industrial experience. Currently, he is with Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr. Sagunthala R&D Institute of Science and Technology, India as assistant professor in mechanical engineering department. He is on the editorial board of 2 international journals and has reviewed 170+ manuscripts for 30+ journals and conferences. He has been awarded thrice by Publons for his reviewing efforts. He has published 20 SCI and 42 SCOPUS research articles and edited 1 book volume for IOP publishing. His areas of interests include metamodeling, process optimization, finite element method and composites.
Ranjan Kumar Ghadai received his B. Tech in Mechanical Engineering from Biju Patnaik University of Technology, Odisha, India, M.E and PhD from Indian Institute of Engineering, Science & Technology, Shibpur, India. He has over 6 years of teaching and research experience. Currently, he is working as an assistant professor in the mechanical engineering department of Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, Sikkim. He has published more than 35 SCI/Scopus indexed research articles. His areas of interests include thin-film coatings and its characterization, heat treatment, optimization of coatings and machining process parameters. He is on the editorial board of several peer-reviewed journals. He also serves as reviewer of many peer-reviewed journals. He has given several expert talks in many conference and workshop as a resource person.
Xiao-Zhi Gao received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from the Harbin Institute of Technology, China in 1993 and 1996, respectively. He obtained his D.Sc. (Tech.) degree from the Helsinki University of Technology (now Aalto University), Finland in 1999. He has been working as a professor at the University of Eastern Finland, Finland since 2018. Prof. Gao has published more than 400 technical papers in refereed journals and international conferences. His current Google Scholar H-index is 31. His research interests are nature-inspired computing methods with their applications in optimization, data mining, machine learning, control, signal processing, and industrial electronics.