Dr. T. S. Sudarshan is the President and CEO of Materials Modification, Inc. He has a PhD from Virginia Tech and has been responsible for driving the company's technological leadership in the development of next generation materials, processes and techniques for the past 34 years. He has been a passionate entrepreneur and provided employment to over 400 individuals, provided the first jobs for over 200 students, served on over 10 thesis committees for M.S. and Ph.Ds. Dr Sudarshan has served on the National Materials Advisory Board, Ohio Third Frontier Committees, Ohio Federal Research Network, ASM International Board, Committees for the Army, NSF, NIH and DoE and Selection Committee for the R&D100 awards. He has over 180 papers, is editor of two journals - Materials and Manufacturing Processes since 1988 and Surface Engineering since 1996, coeditor of 34 books, holder of 36 patents, winner of two R and D 100 awards, Fellow of ASM International, Fellow of IFHTSE, Fellow of IMMM, UK, and Distinguished Alumni of IITM. He has been responsible for heading the development of 18 products and has worked in difficult-to-solve problems in the area of nanotechnology and surface engineering. He has also been on the Advisory Board of ATI, South Carolina and several other companies as a consultant. Prof. K. M. Pandey did Ph.D in 1994 from Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, India. Currently he is working as Professor (HAG) of Mechanical Engineering at National Institute of Technology Silchar, Assam, India, since September 2018 and as Professor since May 2006. He obtained B. Tech in Mechanical Engineering from BHUIT Varanasi in 1980 now known as IITBHU and M. Tech in Heat Power engineering in 1987 from the same institute. He has authored more than 159 research papers in SCI/SCIE/ Scopus indexed journals and conferences. His h-index is 19 in Scopus and SCI and 24 in google scholar. He has also authored 6 booksand 9 book chapters. Currently he is working in the area of thermo fluids and manufacturing sciences. He has also served as seconded faculty consultant at CPSC, Manila, Philippines in 2002. He has served NIT Silchar as Dean Faculty welfare and Dean Research in the year 2011 and 2012. He has served as Head of Department for two terms of 3 years at NIT Silchar. He is taken as member of BOG, NIT Silchar twice. He is a fellow of Institution of Engineers India and member of ASME. He is life member of Welding Society of India and life member of Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power Society of India. Prof. K M Pandey had been keynote speaker and co-editor in 2nd Annual International Conference on Advanced Material Engineering [AME2016], April 15-17, 2016, Wuhan, Hubei, China; keynote speaker in International Seminar in Advances in Materials Science and Engineering, Singapore, 22-24 June 2018 and keynote speaker and General Chair 5th International Conference on Green Materials and Environmental Engineering (GMEE2019), Guangzhou, China. He is taken as member of editorial boards and reviewer in many reputed international journals. In 2020 he has been keynote speaker in 3 international conferences held in Beijing and Shanghai and he has been editor in ICMEM 2020 held in Shanghai and the proceedings is published as book by Springer in December 2020. Dr. Rahul Dev Misra has got his B.E. (Mechanical Engineering) from Jorhat Engg. College under Dibrugarh University in 1991. He did his M.Tech in the specialization of Energy Studies from IIT Delhi in 1996. He has got the Ph.D. degree from IIT Roorkee in 2004. Dr. Misra has joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering of National Institute of Technology (formerly, Regional Engineering College) Silchar in 1992 as Lecturer. Presently he is serving as Professor (HAG) in the same department. He has served NIT Silchar at various administrative capacities like Dean (SW), Dean (FW), Head of Mechanical Engineering Department, Associate Dean (Administration) and Associate Dean (Research & Consultancy) and Faculty-In-Charge for a number of responsibilities. Dr. Misra has been involved in various activities under BOSs of various institutions like NIT Mizoram, NIT Arunachal Pradesh, NIT Meghalaya, etc. He is serving as Advisor (UGC Nominee) for KAUSHAL programme for Tengakhat College, Dibrugarh University. He was also involved as NBA Mentor for NBA Accreditation of UG programmes at TIT Agartala, Tripura. Dr. Misra has research experience in both experimental and computational analyses. His research focus areas are the applications of exergy and thermoeconomics in thermal systems, bio-fuel research for CI engine applications, experimental and CFD analysis of water turbines, boiling heat transfer enhancements, refrigeration and air-conditioning systems etc. Dr. Misra has guided 10 Ph.D. scholars and presently supervises 10 research scholars. He has guided about 45 M.Tech. dissertations and a number of B.Tech projects. He has published more than 65 research articles in refereed international journals, about 60 articles in refereed national/international conferences, one book, and 3 book chapters. He has completed two research projects funded by AICTE and presently working on two high-value research projects funded by MNRE and DST, Govt. of India. Dr. Promod Kumar Patowari is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at National Institute of Technology (NIT) Silchar, Assam. He joined NIT Silchar as faculty member in the year 1995. He served as Dean (FW) and Head of the Department. He obtained his B.Tech degree (Mechanical Engineering) from NERIST, Itanagar, M.E. (Production Engineering) from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, and Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur. His major areas of research include Advanced/Non-traditional Machining, Micro-Manufacturing and Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM). He has published around 50 papers in international journals and around 65 papers in international and national conferences. He has published around 20 books and book chapters. He has supervised 8 PhD scholars and 31 M.Tech. students. He along with his students filed 3 patents and out of which 1 patent was granted. He has 3 projects in his credit including one under DST FIST Program. Currently, he is the life member of professional bodies like Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE), The Institution of Engineers (India) and Institute of Smart Structures and Systems (ISSS). Dr. Swapan Bhaumik, Professor and Former Head of Mechanical Engineering Department, NIT Agartala, obtained Bachelor, Master and PhD degree from Tripura Engineering College under Calcutta University, Jadavpur University and lIT Roorkee in 1987,1991 and 2003, respectively. He started his teaching profession in 1991 in Tripura Engineering College (Presently NIT Agartala). His specialization is thermo-fluid engineering and research field is boiling heat transfer. He published 65 technical papers in international and national journals and conferences, already guided 25 B.Tech, 29 M.Tech and 3 PhD Scholars and presently guiding 5 B.Tech (Major -2 & Minor- 3), 5 M.Tech and 5 PhD scholars. He is a reviewer in many international journals. He is instrumental for setting up of ISTE & IEI Student Chapters at NIT Agartala. He organized many faculty development programmes including AICTE sponsored Two Week Induction Training Programme for newly recruited faculty members and MHRD sponsored GIAN course on Sustainable Cooling Technologies. He was the First Dean (Academic) of NIT Agartala and subsequently served as Dean (Faculty Welfare). Dr. Bhaumik is the Fellow of The Institution of Engineers (India) and SEEM. He is also the Member of ISTE, ISHRAE, ISME, ASME and ISTAM. He received R & D Grants from AICTE, DST, GOI & IEI and is recipient of Chemical Weekly Award in 2006, Sir Ganga Ram Memorial Award in 2017 from IEI. He is the Founder Secretary of NIT Agartala Alumni and continued for five years. He became the first elected Council Member of IEI from North-East India and served Tripura State Centre of IEI as Past Chairman (2013-2015) and Past Honorary Secretary (2009-2011), and also has been awarded the ENGINEER OF THE YEAR -2018 by Tripura State Centre of IEI. He also became Vice-President of IEI for the session 2018-2019. Presently, Dr. Bhaumik is serving as Chairman, Committee for Advancement of Technology and Engineering (CATE) who is looking after the whole technical activities of IEI i/c publication of IEI-Springer Journals.
