Dr. Atul A. Sagade

University of Tarapaca, Chile, USA

Dr. Atul Sagade completed his graduation in Mechanical Engineering (2006) (Shivaji University, Maharashtra, India), post-graduation in Energy Technology (2011) (Shivaji University, Maharashtra, India) and Ph.D. in Energy Engineering (2019) (Central University of Jharkhand, India). Also, he worked as post-doctoral fellow at Solar Energy Research Center (SERC), a center of excellence at University of Chile (QS Rank 2025: 139).
Presently, he is working as a Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department of the University of Tarapacá, Chile, and Associate research faculty at Solar Energy Research Center, University of Chile. He is also associated as visiting professor/scientist with several internationally reputed universities in Europe and South America. He is one of the experts in Solar thermal technologies and published more than 40 research papers in Science Citation Indexed/ Web of Science indexed journals. Dr. Sagade also fetched research funding of more than 1.25 Lakh $ for research projects till date.
He has experience in teaching, research, entrepreneurial and administrative positions at Engineering Polytechnics and graduation institutions in India and abroad for more than eighteen years, including managerial positions such as Principal/Director of the engineering polytechnic institute, head of Entrepreneurship Development Cell, and workshop superintendent.

Dr. Rajaram S. Sutar

Henon University, Kaifeng, China

Dr. Rajaram S. Sutar has completed his Ph.D. in Physics from Shivaji University, Kolhapur, India. He has more than eight years of teaching and research experience. Presently he is working as Postdoctoral researcher at Henan University, China.
His works focuses on fabrication of superhydrophobic surfaces for various applications, self-cleaning, oil-water separation and removal of micro-/nano-plastics from water resources. Their works are published in various reputed international journals including Journal of Materials Chemistry A, ACS Applied Polymer Materials, ACS Applied Nano Materials, New Journal of Chemistry, Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, Marine Pollution Bulletin, Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, Progress in Organic Coatings, Industrial Crops and Products, and Journal of Applied Polymer Science. He has many publications which includes Royal Society of Chemistry, Elsevier, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. and CRC Press book chapters.
He is a reviewer of several international journals including, Nature Communication, Scientific Reports, Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, and Surface and Interface.

Dr. Parikshit N. Mahalle

Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, Pune, India

Dr. Parikshit N. Mahalle is Professor, Dean- Research and Development, and Head - Department of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science at Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, Pune, India. He completed his Ph. D in Computer Science and Engineering specialization in Wireless Communication from Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark. He has more than 24 years of teaching and research experience.
He has 26 patents, 350+ research publications (Google Scholar citations-4000+, h-ndex-27 and Scopus citations are 1950+ with h-index -21, WoS citations are 545 with h-index - 11) and authored/edited 66 books Springer, CRC Press, Cambridge University Press, etc.
His research interests are Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science, Algorithms, Internet of Things, Identity Management and Security. He is also the recipient of Best Faculty Award by Sinhgad Institutes and Cognizant Technologies Solutions, International Level S4DS distinguished Researcher of the Year 2023 and State Level Meritorious Teacher Award. His book on Design and Analysis of algorithms is referred as Textbook in IIITs and NITs and his book on Data Analysis on Pandemic by CRC press has received two international awards in 2020.

Dr. Achchhe Lal

S. V. National Institute of Technology, Surat, India

Dr. Achchhe Lal completed his Ph. D. in Mechanical Engineering from M. N. National Institute of Technology, Allahabad, India and Post Doc from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA. He has more than sixteen years of teaching and research experience. Presently, he is working as an Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering at S. V. National Institute of Technology, Surat, India.
Dr. A. Lal published more than 80 research papers on Composite Materials and Laminates, Functionally Graded Materials (FGM), Nano composite and Carbon Nanotube-Reinforced Composites, Extended Finite Element Method (XFEM), Piezoelectric and Smart Materials, Probabilistic and Stochastic Analysis, Thermal and Hygro thermal Loading Effects, Failure Criteria and Progressive Failure Analysis, Shape Memory Alloys and Smart Hybrid Composites, Fracture Mechanics and Crack Growth Analysis, Thermo-Elastic and Thermo mechanical Analysis, Finite Element Modelling and Simulation Techniques in various international SCI/SCIE/Scopus journals. He has published book chapters in Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, SAGE Publishing and Taylor Francis.
He is currently supervising Five Ph. D. research scholars and Twelve students already awarded. He is also involved in different research projects funded by DST, DRDO, SERB and TEQIP and received amount of Rs. 59.485 Lakhs. Dr. Achchhe Lal was the convener for five programs under TEQIP II and III. Also, he has contributed as reviewer for five renowned international journals.

Dr. Meena Murmu

National Institute of Technology, Raipur, India

Dr. Meena Murmu has done her Ph.D. in civil engineering from National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, Odisha, India. During her Ph. D. tenure, she has been exposed to several computational modelling and statistical model.
She has guided seven Ph. D. candidates in area of environmentally friendly and sustainable concrete. She was granted three patents on concrete Technology. At present she is guiding seven Ph. D. also with environmentally friendly and sustainable concrete, two M. Tech student and five B.Tech. student with bacterial concrete. She has guided seven M. Tech. thesis and some B. Tech projects in the area of concrete and structural Engineering. She has a research and teaching experience of sixteen years in concrete technology and structural engineering. Further, some other collaborative researches are published in journals like Construction Building Materials, Journal of Building Engineering (Elsevier), Frontiers of Structural and Civil Engineering, SN Applied Science (Springer) etc; and conferences.
She has been working for the cause of a better Environment friendly and eco-friendly material for building and structure. She has been working on utilization of waste Industrial material and published the research work on various journals. The focus of her work has been utilization of industrial wastes and by-product like fly ash, blast furnace slag and steel slag in Civil Engineering constructions and special concrete

Dr. Amit Srivastava

Professor, Graphic Era (Deemed to be) University, India

Dr. Amit Srivastava currently working as Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Graphic Era Deemed to be University, Dehradun. He did his UG from University of Roorkee (now IIT Roorkee), and M.E. & Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He has 20+ years of teaching, research, industry and administrative experience.
He has 100+ publications in peer reviewed journals or conference proceedings out of which 60+ documents are Scopus indexed and 40+ are in Web of Science (WoS). He has presented his work on various national/international platforms and visited countries like Italy, France, UK, and Egypt.
He has bagged 3 IGS national awards (Prof. C.S. Desai Biennial Award-2014; IGS-AFCONS Biennial Award- 2010; IGS-Smt. Indra Joshi Biennial Award- 2008) and one international award from ASCE (EWRI Best Paper Award-2015). In 2019, he was presented research appreciation award from the university management.
He has also contributed to various consultancy projects, such as, stability of slopes using soil nailing technique, vibration isolation system using open trench technique, deep excavation problems. He is well versed in using numerical packages (useful in geotechnical profession) like FLAC 2D & 3D, PLAXIS 2D & 3D, SLIDE, etc. He has been member of various national and international societies such as, IGS, ISSMGE, ASCE, IEI, ISRMTT, ITS, etc.