Editorial Board

Industrial & System Engineering
Productivity
Performance Management
Human Factors & Ergonomics

Since 2004, 90 papers were published on international reviewed journals (Scientific Reports, Phys. Rev. Lett., Appl. Phys. Lett., Phys. Rev. B, Adv. Mater., Chem. Mater., ACS Nano, J. Phys. Chem B&C, Nanotechnology, et al.), 5 invited review papers were published as book chapters and 4 patents were filed. The total SCI citation is ~ 2400. His present h-index is 24.

A combined computational and experimental method is used to study the physical and chemical properties of nanostructures and thin film for their applications in solar energy harvesting, electrical energy storage, hydrogen production/storage, fuel cell and electronic devices, spintronics, nanodevices, and catalysts in my research work.

Image Processing
Medical Image Processing
Computer Vision
Artificial Intelligence
Robotics

Dr. Alireza Heidari, Ph.D., D.Sc. is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Chemistry. He has got his Ph.D. and D.Sc. degrees form California South University (CSU), Irvine, California, USA. Furthermore, he has double postdocs in Project Management and also in Nanochemistry and Molecular Structure Theory. His research interests are Biophysical Chemistry, Nanochemistry, Quantum Chemistry, Biomolecular and Vibrational Spectroscopy, Molecular Modeling and Structure, Theoretical, Computational and Mathematical Chemistry, Ab initio and Density Functional Methods. He has participated at more than fifty reputed international conferences, seminars, congresses, symposiums and forums around the world as yet. Also, he possesses many published articles in Science Citation Index (SCI)/International Scientific Indexing (ISI) Journals. It should be noted that he has visited many universities or scientific and academic research institutes in different countries such as United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Netherlands, Russia, France, Swiss, Germany, Sweden, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Mexico, Taiwan, South Korea, China, etc. as research fellow, sabbatical and volunteer researcher or visitor heretofore.

Dr. Onder Turan received his BSc., MSc. and Ph.D in 1998, 2000 and 2007 respectively from Anadolu University. He became an Associate Professor of Anadolu University in 2013. He has published more than 60 journal papers or conference papers in the above fields. He has served as a member of technical and scientific committee, panel session chair, reviewer and editor for numerous international conferences and prestigious scientific journals

Sustainable energy
Environmental impact of industrial/aero systems
Energy technology Propulsion
Thermodynamic
Environmental impact Sustainability and ecology
Gas turbines
Aircraft propulsion
Aero-engines
Optimization methods
Energy, exergy
Cogeneration systems
Renewable energy
Integrated energy systems

Prahallada M C, Professor of CE, completed his BE (Civil) and MTech from Visvesvaraya Technological University and PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad. The Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology.awarded him the best project of the year award in 1994. A lot of his work has also been published in various academic journals. He is also a member of various professional bodies like Indian Society for Technical Education, The Institution of Engineers (India).

Concrete Technology

Dr. Pinnam Lovaraju is serving as a Professor and Head for Department of Aerospace Engineering in L.B. College of Engineering, Mylavaram. He completed his doctoral studies on “Flow Characteristics of Cross-Wire Controlled Jets” from Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in the year of 2008. To his academic credentials he is having Diploma in Automobile Engineering followed by A.M.I.E and M.E. He is having teaching experience of more than 8 years and presently guiding a number of students for their Masters and Ph.D thesis work. He has published 9 research articles and took part as an organizing member or participant in several National and International conferences so far.

co-flow jets, Jet Flow Control, Sonic Jets, Aerospace, Subsonic and Sonic Rectangular Jets

Iven Jose, Associate Professor and Associate Dean (Faculty of Engineering), completed his MTech from Mangalore University in 1999 and PhD from Indian Institute of Technology in 2008. He joined Christ University in the year 2011.

Engineering Subjects

Shuodao Wang, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, completed his B.S. degree at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China in 2007 and his Ph.D. at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA in 2012. He joined the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Oklahoma State University in 2014.

Modeling and Fabrication of Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS), Mechanics and Process Optimization of Transfer Printing Techniques for Micro-electronic Systems, Mechanical Actuators and Sensors, Bio-inspired and Bio-integrated Electronics, Theoretical and Experimental Solid Mechanics

Andrew Kusiak is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa. He is interested in applications of computational intelligence and innovation science in manufacturing, engineering design, healthcare, and energy, in particular, wind farm performance, wind turbine control, diagnostics, predictive engineering, power optimization, and management. Dr. Kusiak has published numerous books and technical papers in journals sponsored by professional societies, such as AAAI, ASME, IEEE, IIE, ESOR, IFIP, IFAC, INFORMS, ISPE, and SME. He speaks frequently at international meetings, conducts professional seminars, and consults for numerous corporations. Dr. Kusiak has served on editorial boards of over forty journals. He is the IIE Fellow and the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing.

Energy, Data mining and knowledge discovery, Computational intelligence, Medical informatics and technology, Design of products, components, processes, and systems and Process modeling.

Roberto Guglielmo Citarella born in Milan on February the 2nd 1969. Received the Laurea degree "summa cum laude" in 1994 in Mechanical Engineering and the Ph.D. in “Design and Construction of Machines” in 1999, both at University of Naples “Federico II”. In 1996 received the diploma for a master in Business Administration (MBA) at the school “Stoà” in Naples. Since January the 3rd 2005 is Assistant Professor of "Construction of Machines" in the Department of Industrial Engineering (DIIN) at the University of Salerno. He was Visiting Researcher at the Wessex Institute of Technology (in 1996), Southampton (UK) and at the Queen Mary and Westfield College (in 1998 and 2000) in London (UK). He was member of: International Scientific Advisory Committee for the international conference “Fatigue Damage of Materials 2003”, Referee group for the first european call FP7 Transport-Aeronautics, organisation commettee for the international conference BeTeq 2007. He is Fellow of Wessex Institute of Technology. His main topics of research are: BEM, Vibrational Acoustics, Bioengineering, Fracture Mechanics, Thermomechanical Fatigue. He has published nearly 90 technical papers on international journals, book chapters and conference proceedings. He serves as reviewer for several international journals and participated in the scientific commettee of several international conferences. He is in the editorial board of the journals "Advances in Engineering Software" and "The Open Mechanical Engineering Journal".

Deterministic and stochastic fracture mechanics. Contact problems in elastostatics. FEM-BEM coupled approach. Structural optimisation: Taguchi method. Vibrational-acoustic. Bioengineering.

Taebok Kim is a currently associate professor in the Graduate School of Logistics at Incheon National University, Korea. He received his BS, MS and PhD degrees in Industrial Engineering from Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Korea. He was a senior manager at the SCM Group of Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. His research interests are in production management, integration policy in supply chain management and production scheduling. His papers have appeared in Omega, the International Journal of Production Research, the International Journal of Production Economics, the International Journal of Systems Science and others.

Supply Chain Management; Logistics; Inventory Management ; Reverse Logistics

Pierluigi Siano received the M.Sc. degree in electronic engineering and the Ph.D. degree in information and electrical engineering from the University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy, in 2001 and 2006, respectively. In 2013 he received the Italian National Scientific Qualification as Full Professor in the competition sector electrical energy engineering, including power systems and power electronic subjects. Currently, he is a Professor with the Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Salerno. His research activities are centered on the integration of renewable distributed generation into electricity networks and smart grids, on power converters for renewable distributed generation control and for electrical machine control, on the optimal design of power converters, on the application of soft computing methodologies to analysis and planning of power systems. In these fields, he has published more than 150 technical papers including more than 70 international journal papers that received more than 1200 citations with an H-index equal to 19 according to Scopus. Dr. Siano is Editor of Intelligent Industrial Systems, Springer and of the International Journal of Advancements in Power Electronics & Digital Devices, Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, member of the editorial board of more than 35 International Journals. He has been member of the Scientific Committee of many international conferences. He is IEEE Senior member. He served as a reviewer and session chairman for many international conferences. He has been a Special Sessions Co-Chair of the IEEE-ISIE 2010.

Climate Change, Renewable Energy, Energy Management, Smart Home, Home automation, Smart Grid, Power System and Power Electronics

Dr. Abu Al-Rub is currently an Associate Professor of Mechanical and Materials Science and Engineering at Masdar Institute, UAE. Masdar Institute is established in collaboration with MIT. Dr. Abu Al-Rub has been a Professor at Texas A&M University-College Station-USA. Also, he is an Adjunct Professor at Air Force Institute of Technology of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, USA. Professor Abu Al-Rub primary research field of interest is on the development of macro/micro/nano-mechanics-based constitutive models and computational tools that can be used effectively in guiding the design of advanced materials and structural systems. He has published one book and over 200 publications. Dr. Abu Al-Rub is a member of ASCE, ASME, AIAA, SES, and ASEE. In 2011, he received Outstanding New Mechanics Educator Award from the American Society for Engineering Education. Recently, he has been selected among the Scholar Google 100 Most Cited Authors in Civil Engineering.

Multi-scale theoretical, computational, and experimental mechanics of solids and structures (including bridging length scales, size effects, thermo-mechanical behavior of materials at the macro-, meso-, micro-, and nano-scales). Multi-scale theoretical, computational, and experimental mechanics of solids and structures (including bridging length scales, size effects, thermo-mechanical behavior of materials at the macro-, meso-, micro-, and nano-scales). Mechanics of advanced and traditional materials (including macro/micro/nanocomposites, micro- and nano-structured materials, metals and metal alloys, ceramics, polymers, concrete, and asphalt). Microstructure-based computational modeling of advanced composite materials. In-situ micro- and nano-mechanical testing of micro and nano materials and structural systems.

Dr. Bin Chen is currently a faculty member in the Department of Engineering Mechanics, Zhejiang University, China. He received his B.S. and M.S. from Tsinghua University, China in 1996 and 1999, respectively, and his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US, in 2003. After receiving his Ph.D., he worked as a postdoctoral associate at MIT in USA, Max Planck Institute for Metals Research in Germany, and McMaster University in Canada, and as a Research Engineer/Scientist I at Institute of High Performance Computing in Singapore.

Biomechanics, Biophysics, Mechanical behaviors of structures and materials

Dr. Liu Zhuangjian completed his PhD from National University of Singapore, Singapore. He is the Honorary Auditor & Member of Singapore Association of Computational Mechanics. He is working as a Senior Scientist at Institute of High Performance Computing, Connexis.

Computational solid mechanics, Numerical simulation of flexible electronic system, Damage and failure analysis of materials and structures, Dynamic and shock analysis of structures, Thermal dynamic analysis, Fluid and structure interaction analysis.

Dr Hojjati has been joined Concordia University as an Associate Professor in July 2012. Before that he was working at National Research Council Canada (NRC) for almost ten years, during which, he was responsible for working with different industrial partners to develop and implement composite manufacturing R&TD programs. he had been involved in the definition, planning and implementation of many industrial projects related to automated fibre placement. This includes fabrication of an aircraft nose fuselage section, a helicopter tail boom, and an isogrid structure.

Dr. Hojjati’s research interests are in composite material design, analysis and manufacturing. This includes process modeling, material characterization, automated fiber placement, hot drape forming, compression molding, and autoclave curing.

Dr. Raman Balu is a graduate (B.Tech) in Mechanical Engineering and a post-graduate (M.S. by research) in Aeronautical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He joined the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) of ISRO in 1971 and has been working on thermal protection system (TPS) design and Secondary Injection Thrust Vector Control (SITVC) systems development for all the Indian launch vehicles. He designed and developed the air pre-heating system for the India’s first hypersonic wind tunnel at VSSC. He got his doctorate in Aerospace Engineering from the IISc, Bangalore in 1990 for his work 3-D Nozzle flows with Thrust Vector Control. He has about 100 publications in national and international journals and conference proceedings and has published more than 200 internal reports in VSSC. He is a life member of the Aeronautical Society of India and also the Astronautical Society of India .He retired as Group Director, Aerodynamics and Aerothermodynamics Group, VSSC in October 2006, after 35 years of service in ISRO. Presently, he is working as Dean ( Research ), ACE College of Engineering, Thiruvallam, Trivandrum. Prior to this he has served as, Dean, School of Mechanical Engineering, Noorul Islam Centre for Higher Education (NICHE) , Kumaracoil, KK District, Tamil Nadu, from 2006 to 2014. He is a Life member of the Aeronautical Society of India and the Astronautical Society of India.. He has been selected for inclusion as a listee for the Marquis Who’s Who of the World, USA, ( 32nd Edition, 2015).

Boundary layer heat transfer, nozzle and jet flows, computational fluid dynamics, aerodynamic shape optimization, heat transfer in nano-fluids and surrogate modeling of expensive time-consuming simulation data.

design standards, building code and regulatory compliance requirements, barrier-free, optimized space planning & design; cubic-space utilization; flexible design & modular racking; display lighting

Andrej Ivanco is a Research Assistant Professor at the Clemson University. His research focuses on hybrid vehicle system level optimization, stochastic and real-time control, route planning, population driving pattern analysis and hardware in the loop testing. Prior to joining the Clemson University Department of Automotive Engineering in 2012, he worked for two years as a Research Fellow at the University of Michigan AutoLab. He holds a double PhD degree from 2009 in Energetics from University of Orleans, France as well as in Technical Cybernetics form Czech Technical University in Prague. His list of publications includes close to twenty peer-reviewed journal and conference papers, mainly in the area of hybrid vehicle design and control.

Hybrid vehicle, Drive cycle analysis, Deterministic & Stochastic Dynamic Programming, Unconventional hybrid propulsion (Hydraulic, Pneumatic)

Translational Medicine, Big data analysis and visualisation, mHealth, Personal Health Records, Electronic Medical Record and Hospital Information System.

Kishore Reddy has 8 years of experience in teaching.

Electronics & Communication Engineering (VLSI Design)

M. Chithirai Pon Selvan has more tahn 16 years of experience in teaching Mechanical Engineering courses. He has Published more than 20 research papers in international journals. He is also the Editorial Board Member of more than 15 international journals.

Engineering Graphics, Engineering Mechanics, Mechanics of Solids, Fluid Mechanics, Hydraulic Machines, Mechanical Engineering Sciences, Strength of Materials, Manufacturing Processes, Machine Shop Technology, Metallurgy and Material Science, Composite Materials.

Jian Wu is an associate professor of the Department of Engineering Mechanics at Tsinghua University. He has broad interests in many branches of Engineering Science and is interested in establishing mechanics models for advanced technology, such as stretchable and flexible electronics, multifunctional catheters, epidermal electronics and pressure vessels. Mechanics provides the scientific and engineering foundations and design guidelines for these stretchable and flexible electronics and pressure vessels. He has published more than 50 journal papers and book chapters.

Prof.Sudarshan N M holds a B.E. and M.E. from Gulbarga University and pursuing PhD from ANU University Guntur India, His areas of interest are Mix design of High strength concrete, UHPFRC and studies on achieving high concrete strength He is a Life member of ISTE, published research papers in National/International journals, Project Guide for Graduate and Post Graduate students