Dr. Ajit Behera is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Metallurgical & Materials Engineering at the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela. He completed his PhD from IIT, Kharagpur, in 2016. He received the National “IEI Young Engineer Award in 2022, “Yuva Rattan Award in 2020, “C.V. Raman Award in 2019, and “young faculty award in 2017. He has published more than 202 publications including books, book chapters, and journals. Five PhD students were awarded under his supervision, and more than 10 PhD students from his institute/outside the institute areworking on different research projects with him. He has successfully completed 25 industrial/research projects and organized 12 industrial-academia collaborative conferences.
Prof. Dr. Jayanta Kumar Patra, M.Sc., Ph.D., P.D.F, is currently working as an Associate Professorat Dongguk University, Republic of Korea. He holds about 14 years of research and teaching experience in the fields of food, pharmacology, and nano-biotechnology. To his credit, he has published more than 200 papers in various national and international peer-reviewed journals and around 50 book chaptersin different edited books. Dr. Patra has also authored 22 books in various academic publications.