Advances in Interdisciplinary Engineering: Select Proceedings of FLAME 2020

Dr. Niraj Kumar has more than sixteen years of experience in teaching undergraduate and postgraduate course. He also has experience of working in industries in different position. Dr. Niraj Kumar completed his PhD from NIT Hamirpur and currently working as Professor in Amity University, Uttar Pradesh, Noida, India. Prior to joining Amity University, he has worked as Director in different engineering colleges. His research interest involves IC engine, alternative fuels, renewable energy and solar energy. Professor Niraj Kumar is acting as reviewer for various international journals including Renewable and Sustainable Energy Review, Applied Energy, Energy Conversion and Management and Applied Thermal engineering (Elsevier Publication). He is member of peer-reviewing committee for evaluation of scientific project for countries like Kazakhstan and Israel. He has authored many research papers in esteemed journals. Professor Niraj Kumar has also authored book chapters with highly acclaimed publishers including Elsevier and Springer. He has delivered many guest lectures in conferences and workshops. He has received grant under MODROBS from AICTE.

Dr. Szalay Tibor is working as an associate professor and heading the Department of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BUTE), Hungary. He was Vice Dean of Scientific and International Affairs in BUTE, Hungary from 2008 to 2012. He completed PhD in 2001 from BUTE Hungary. He received Gillemot Prize of the BME Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in 2016, Knight-of-Cross from the Order of Merit of the Hungarian Republic in 2015, Békésy Professor Fellowship of the Hungarian Ministry of Education in 2003, Bolyai Research Followship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1996, Development of technology – reward of the Scientific Society of Mechanical Engineering in 1996 and Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences from 1983 to 1986. He was the Hungarian coordinator of two EU FP6 projects and he is responsible for the participation of the BME in the H2020 Teaming project Center of Excellence Production Informatics and Control (EPIC). He is leading more than 34 research projects and 37 industrial R&D projects. He has supervised 18 students for Scientific Students Work, 143 students for BSc and MSc theses and 6 PhD students. Dr. Szalay has published and presented more than 150 papers.

Dr. Rahul Sindhwani received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering (Industrial Engineering & Management) in 2017, M.Tech. degree in Mechanical Engineering (Industrial Engineering & Management) with distinction and Gold Medal in 2010, B.Tech. degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2008, from Kurukshetra University, India. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department, Amity School of Engineering and Technology, Amity University, Noida, India. He is an active lifetime member of the Indian Society of Technical Education and a fellow member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology. He is having teaching, research, and administrative experience of more than 10 years. He has been actively involved in organizing several national and international conferences and has published more than 25 research papers and book chapters in the area of industrial engineering and management in various international journals of repute. His area of expertise is industrial engineering and management, supply chain management, lean, green and agile manufacturing system along with analysis of problems using structural equation modelling, statistical analysis, interpretive structural modelling, and multi-criteria decision modelling, etc.

Dr. Priyank Srivastava is Ph.D. from National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra and faculty at ASET, AUUP, Noida. He has completed graduation in 2001, post-graduation in 2006, from Amravati University and Madan Mohan Malviya Engineering College, Gorakhpur, respectively. He has teaching experience of more than 15 years. He has published around 27 papers in international journals, international conferences, and book chapters. His research interests are in the areas of risk and reliability, manufacturing system modelling, maintenance management, operations management, and MCDM techniques.