Dr. Mithilesh K. Dikshit is an assistant professor at the Institute of Infrastructure Technology Research and Management (IITRAM), India. He holds Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and master degree in Production Engineering. He has more than 09 years of experience in teaching and research. His major areas of research include high-speed machining, mechanics of metal cutting, composite materials, molecular dynamics, vibration and control, and optimization. He has organized number of conferences/symposium and editorial board member of three international journals. He has authored more than 35 research papers and journal articles.
Dr. Navneet Khanna is an Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and former Associate Dean (Career Development and Promotion of Innovation and Industrial Research) and former Mechanical Engineering department coordinator at Institute of Infrastructure Technology Research and Management, Ahmedabad, India. He worked as Assistant Professor at BITS Pilani (Pilani campus), and also taught at IIT Gandhinagar as an adjunct faculty. He has successfully led 90+ projects defined by the Indian industries and published 100+ research papers in renowned (SCI/SCIE) peer-reviewed journals. Dr Khanna's name appeared among the top 2% of researchers and scientists of the world in a report published by Standard University, USA, and Elsevier of the Netherlands for the years of 2021, 2022 and 2023.
Ashish Soni is currently working as the head of Mechanical Capacity Building Division of Space Applications Centre, ISRO, Ahmedabad. He is responsible for capacity building for mechanical fabrication and allied processes for space components. He has vast experience in the area of work in design, development, optimization, and realization of mechanical subsystems for GEOSAT and IRNSS communications payload. He has worked as a project manager for active mechanical subsystems for GSAT-7R, GSAT-24, GSAT-30, IRNSS, GISAT, etc. He also has research interests in the area of design, optimization, and various mechanisms. He has been awarded for technology transfer of Precision Tapping Mechanism in March 2018. He has published more than 40 technical research papers at national and international levels.
Dr. Angelos P. Markopoulos Ph.D. (M) is an associate professor at the School of Mechanical Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece. Since 2007, he has worked as a university professor in several Institutes in Greece, including the University of Thessaly, the Academies of the Hellenic Air Force and the Hellenic Navy and the School of Pedagogical and Technological Education, and since 2014, he has joined the staff of NTUA. He belongs to the Editorial Board of several Scientific Journals, in the committees of various International Conferences and he is the PI of many projects funded by the EU. Furthermore, he has fulfilled more than 20 Erasmus+ mobility teaching agreements in various countries in Europe. His research includes topics such as precision and ultraprecision machining processes with special interest in high-speed hard machining, grinding, and micromachining.
