About the Editors

Dr. Ajay Kumar is currently serving as a professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department, School of Engineering and Technology, JECRC University, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. He received his Ph.D. in the field of Advanced Manufacturing from Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology, Hisar, India, after B.Tech. (Hons.) and M.Tech. (Distinction) from Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, India. His areas of research include artificial intelligence, intelligent manufacturing, incremental sheet forming, additive manufacturing, intelligent vehicles, advanced manufacturing, Industry 4.0, waste management, and optimization techniques. He has over 60 publications in international journals of repute including SCOPUS, Web of Science, and SCI indexed database and refereed international conferences. He has co-authored/co-edited several books including:

• Incremental Sheet Forming Technologies: Principles, Merits, Limitations, and Applications, CRC Press, Taylor and Francis, ISBN: 9780367276744. https://doi.org/10.1201/9780429298905.
• Managing Guest Editor of Journal Proceedings: Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Volume 1950, 27 February 2021, Gurgaon, India. https://iopscience.iop.org/issue/1742-6596/1950/1.
• Advancements in Additive Manufacturing: Artificial Intelligence, Nature Inspired and Bio-manufacturing, ISBN: 9780323918343, Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/C2020-0-03877-6.
• Handbook of Sustainable Materials: Modelling, Characterization, and Optimization, CRC Press, Taylor and Francis, ISBN: 978-1-032-28632-7. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003297772.
• Waste Recovery and Management: An Approach Towards Sustainable Development Goals, CRC Press, Taylor and Francis, ISBN: 9781032281933. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003359784.
• Smart Manufacturing: Forecasting the Future of Industry 4.0, CRC Press, Taylor and Francis, ISBN: 9781032363431. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003333760.
• Handbook of Flexible and Smart Sheet Forming Techniques: Industry 4.0 Perspectives, ISBN: 9781119986409, Wiley. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119986454.
• Modeling, Characterization, and Processing of Smart Materials, IGI Global, and ISBN: 9781668492246. doi:10.4018/978-1-6684-9224-6.

He has organized various national and international events including an International Conference on Mechatronics and Artificial Intelligence (ICMAI-2021) as conference chair. He has more than 15 national and international patents in his credit. He has supervised more than eight M.Tech. and Ph.D. scholars and numerous undergraduate projects/thesis. He has a total of 13 years of experience in teaching and research. He is guest editor and review editor of reputed journals including Frontiers in Sustainability. He has contributed to many international conferences/symposiums as a session chair, expert speaker, and member of editorial board. He has won several proficiency awards during the course of his career, including merit awards, best teacher awards, and so on.

He has been the adviser of Association of Engineers and Technocrats (AET) and has also authored many in-house course notes, lab manuals, monographs, and invited chapters in books. He has organized a series of faculty development programs, international conferences, workshops, and seminars for researchers, Ph.D., undergraduate, and postgraduate students. He is associated with many research, academic, and professional societies in various capacities.

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Parveen Kumar is currently serving as an assistant professor and head in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Rawal Institute of Engineering and Technology, Faridabad, Haryana, India. Currently, he is pursuing Ph.D. from National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, Haryana, India. He completed his B.Tech. (Hons.) from Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, India, and M.Tech. (Distinction) in Manufacturing and Automation from Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, India. His areas of research include intelligent manufacturing systems, materials, die-less forming, design of automotive systems, additive manufacturing, CAD/CAM and artificial intelligence, machine learning and Internet of Things in manufacturing, and multiobjective optimization techniques. He has over 20 publications in international journals of repute including SCOPUS, Web of Science, and SCI indexed database and refereed international conferences. He has eight national and international patents to his credit. He has supervised more than two M.Tech. scholars and numerous undergraduate projects/theses. He has a total of 13 years of experience in teaching and research. He has co-authored/co-edited several books including:

• Waste Recovery and Management: An Approach Towards Sustainable Development Goals, CRC Press, Taylor and Francis, ISBN: 9781032281933. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003359784.
• Handbook of Sustainable Materials: Introduction, Modelling, Characterization and Optimization, CRC Press, Taylor and Francis, ISBN: 9781032295874. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003297772.
• Handbook of Smart Manufacturing: Forecasting the Future of Industry 4.0, CRC Press, Taylor and Francis, ISBN: 9781032363431. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003333760.
• Handbook of Flexible and Smart Sheet Forming Techniques: Industry 4.0 Perspectives, ISBN: 9781119986409, Wiley. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119986454.
• Modeling, Characterization, and Processing of Smart Materials, IGI Global, ISBN: 9781668492246. doi:10.4018/978-1-6684-9224-6.

He is also book series editor of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems and Technologies: Sustainable and Intelligent Perspectives in CRC Press, Taylor and Francis. He has organized a series of faculty development programs, workshops, and seminars for researchers and undergraduate students.

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Shimi Sudha Letha is an associate professor, Electrical Engineering Department, Punjab Engineering College (Deemed to be University), Chandigarh, since February 2023. Before joining PEC, she worked as an assistant professor, Electrical Engineering Department, NITTTR, Chandigarh, under the Ministry of Education, GoI since August 2011. She completed her post-doctoral research at Luleå Technical University, Skellefteå, Sweden, for a period of two years from August 2019 to August 2021 in the area of electromobility under Prof. Math Bollen (IEEE, Fellow). She has 19 years of experience out of which 18 years are of teaching and research and 1 year is of industrial. She earned her Ph.D. degree from PEC University of Technology, Chandigarh, and her Master of Power Electronics and Drives from an institute under Anna University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Her Indian Patent with Application No. 202011003964 titled “Multilevel Inverter” is published and is under second examination. She has guided more than 100 students for master’s degree and supervised 2 Ph.D. students. She has more than 175 research articles to her credit in reputed journals. She successfully co-investigated a DST Chandigarh funded project on “Emergency Vehicle Preemption.” She was instrumental in setting up the Centre of Excellence in HIL (Hardware in Loop Simulation) in collaboration with Typhoon HIL, Switzerland. She has worked on many real-time projects such as “solar-powered smart class room” with bidirectional energy meter implemented using Wago PLC, IoT-based smart laboratory, and solar-based charging station for electric vehicles. She has developed Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) under Swayam platform on Real Time Power System Analysis and Smart Grid in 2018–2019. She has organized a series of faculty development programs, international conferences, workshops, and seminars for faculty, researchers, and professionals. She is associated with many research, academic, and professional societies in various capacities. She is a member of IEEE (USA), ASME (USA), and IE (India).

She has authored many books and technical reports including:

• Shimi Sudha Letha, “Solar Powered Cascaded Multilevel Inverter,” subtitle: Using MATLAB and FPGA based spartan 3A DSP board, publisher: Lap Lambert Academic Publishing, ISBN: 9786139995400, 2019.
• Shimi Sudha Letha, Math Bollen, “Impact of Electric Vehicle Charging on the Power Grid,” Luleå University of Technology, Sweden, ISBN: 978-91-7790-763-3, 2021.
• Shimi Sudha Letha, Tatiano Busatto, and Math Bollen: “Interaction between charging infrastructure and the electricity grid: The situation and challenges regarding the influence of electromobility on mainly low voltage networks,” ISBN: 978-91-7790-807-4 (electronic). oai: DiVA.org: ltu-83583DiVA, id: diva2:1543400.

Her areas of specialization are power electronics and drives, electromobility, power quality, advance control theory,...