Dr. Bibhu Prasad Swain is currently an associate professor at the Department of Physics, National Institute of Technology Manipur. He obtained his B.Sc. (Physics) from Utkal University, Bhubaneswar; M.Sc. (Physics) from the National Institute of Technology Rourkela; M.Tech. (Materials Science) from Barkatullah University; and Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. His major areas of research interests include large bandgap semiconductors, mechanical hard-materials, nanostructured materials, graphene-based supercapacitor, photovoltaic materials, biocompatible coating, and modeling of advanced MOSFET. He has published 150 papers in respected international journals and 4 edited books. Dr. Swain received the Brain Korea 21 Fellow and Japanese Society of promotion of Science Postdoctoral Fellow from Materials Research, Seoul National University, and Government of Japan in the years 2007 and 2008. Currently, he is an editorial board member of the Nanoscience and Nanotechnology – Asia and the guest editor in “Materials” journals in MDPI publications.
Dr. Uday Shanker Dixit is currently a senior professor (HAG) at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. He obtained his B.Tech. (Mechanical Engineering) from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, M.Tech. (Mechanical Engineering) from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, and Ph.D. from the Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. His major areas of research interest include Plasticity, Metal Forming, Laser-Based Manufacturing, and Finite Element Modeling and Optimization. He has published 146 papers in reputed journals and authored/edited 19 books. Prof. Dixit is an honorary fellow member of the Indian Welding Society and felicitation by the National Coordinator of NPTEL for getting larger number of viewers of his course on Engineering Mechanics. He was the director of CIT, Krokrajhar (2014-15), a BOG member of many institutes, and a guest editor for many special issues of reputed journals.