CURRENT INDIAN SCIENCE

Bhabatosh Das is a Molecular Microbiologist working as Associate Professor at the Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, an autonomous institute under the Dept. of Biotechnology, Govt. of India. His major research focus is to understand the (i) composition, diversity and dynamics of human gut microbiome and (ii) role of human gut microbiota in the emergence of antimicrobial resistant bacterial pathogens. His lab has received generous support from several national (DBT, DST, ICMR, Govt. of India) and international (GATES foundation, Wellcome Trust) funding agencies.

Pijush Samui is working as an associate professor in the civil engineering department at NIT Patna, India. He graduated in 2000, with a B.Tech. in Civil Engineering from Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, India. He received his M.Sc. in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India (2004). He holds a Ph.D. in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering (2008) from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. He was a postdoctoral fellow at University of Pittsburgh (USA) (2008-2009) and Tampere University of Technology (Finland) (2009- 2010). In 2010, Dr. Pijush joined the Center for Disaster Mitigation and Management at VIT University as an Associate Professor. He was promoted to full Professor in 2012. Dr. Pijush is the recipient of the prestigious CIMO fellowship (2009) from Finland, for his integrated research on the design of railway embankment. He was awarded Shamsher Prakash Research Award (2011) by IIT Roorkee for his innovative research on the application of Artificial Intelligence in designing civil engineering structures. He was selected as the recipient of IGS Sardar Resham Singh Memorial Award – 2013 for his innovative research on infrastructure project. He was elected Fellow of the International Congress of Disaster Management in 2010. He served as a guest in disaster advance journal. He also serves as an editorial board member in several international journals. He has been selected as an adjunct professor at Ton Duc Thang University (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam). He has been visiting professor at Far East Federal University (Russia).

Professor, Rizwan Hasan Khan received Ph.D. in Biotechnology from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India during the period of 1992-1996. Currently, he is working in the area of protein structure, function, protein misfolding or aggregation and amyloid induction and inhibition at Aligarh Muslim University. His research is focusing on many aspects of protein misfolding and aggregation such as designing suitable molecules for inducing aggregation in proteins to understand the mechanism of protein aggregation, to find out the molecular mechanism of toxicity of protein aggregates using neuronal cell lines and animal models, to find and synthesize new suitable drug molecule for the treatment of debilitating protein aggregation diseases. He is an editorial member of several reputed journals including IJBM, Plos One, CPPS, JBB, Journal of Biophysics etc.He has guided 23 PhD theses and completed 12 research projects. He has published around 325 papers in the journals of international repute with H index of 60 and total citation around 12766. His two patents are under process.

Prof. Dr. K. Murugan presently working as a Registrar i/c & Professor and Head, Department of Zoology, earlier he was Vice-Chancellor at Thiruvalluvar University (State University), Vellore, Tamil Nadu from 2016 to 2019. He has done cutting-edge research on the synergy among plant-borne compounds with microbial insecticides and arthropod predators for the successful control of insect pests of medical and agricultural importance. He has 30 years of research and teaching experience: Earlier, he occupied several important positions such as Additional Director, DRDO-BU-CLS (Ministry of Defence, Govt. Of India), Director i/c, Research and Development Centre, Bharathiar University, Professor and Head, Department of Zoology, and Human Genetics and Molecular Biology, Bharathiar University, Scientist/Station Director, Indian Cardamom Research Instt. (Min. of Commerce), Govt. of India. He has won many awards for his scientific achievements Recently, he has been awarded “Top Scientist” in the field of Mycology & Parasitology by Stanford University Scientist, 2020.

Dr Papita Das is a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata India and Joint Director, School of Advanced Studies in Industrial Pollution Control Engineering, Jadavpur University. She has expertise in highly topical domains of environmental chemical engineering: (1) Nanotechnology (2) wastewater treatment, (3) environmental microbiology, (4) Biofuel generation from biomass, and (5) sustainable materials for environmental remediation and biofuel generation. Her research team has made notable contributions on several key areas related to “Environmental Sustainability”, which have been recognized with awards in recent years. She is ranked in World Ranking of top 2% Scientist (2020) published by Stanford University which represents the top 2% the most –cited scientists in various discipline (Rank 614 among 55697 researchers in the field of Chemical Engineering based on career long impact) and also awarded 8th National Award for Technology Innovation by Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals, Govt. of India in 2018, Women Scientist – BRSI, Young Scientist Award –BRSI. Further, her research has produced over 165 refereed International publications and 36 Book chapters, 12 Books and others which have been well received by the global scientific community through citations (Google Scholar, h index 39, citations 7126).

Dr. P. Venkata Krishna is currently a Professor of Computer Science and a Director at Sri Padmavati Mahila University, Tirupati, India. He received his B. Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupathi, India, M. Tech in Computer Science; Engineering from REC, Calicut, India, and he received his Ph.D. from VIT University, Vellore, India. Dr. Krishna has several years of experience working in the academia, research, teaching, consultancy, academic administration and project management roles. His current research interests include Mobile and wireless systems, cross-layer wireless network design, QoS and Cloud Computing. He was the recipient of several academic and research awards such as the Cognizant Best Faculty Award for the year 2009-2010 and VIT Most Active Researcher Award for the year 2009-2010. He has authored over 200 research papers in various national and international journals and conferences. He has produced 10 Ph.D. 's and 1 MS by research degree under his guidance and has guided several masters and bachelors projects. Dr. Krishna has authored 15 books on Computer Networks and Programming Languages. He has delivered several keynote addresses and chaired sessions in reputed conferences. He is currently serving as editor in chief for International Journal of Smart Grid and Green Communications, Inderscience Publishers, Switzerland and also the editor for International Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics and Journal of Advanced Computing Technologies. He is an Associate Editor for International Journal of Communication Systems, Wiley. He is a senior member in several professional societies, such as IEEE, ACM, CSI, IE(I) etc.

Prof. Maurya earned D.Sc. degree from Ran Durgavati University in 1995 and in the same university he was a Professor and Head in the Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy and Dean Faculty of Science. He has been an elected Fellow of the Institution of Chemists, India (CChem FIC) for two decades. He has also been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Great Britain, UK (CChem FRSC) in 2008. He won several awards, such as Golden Jubilee Excellence Award by the Rani Durgavati Vishwavidyalaya in 2006 and the Best Science Research Teacher Award in 2012. Dr. Maurya has participated in various symposia and conferences in India and abroad. He has also visited abroad several times in connection with the presentation of his research contributions. Prof. Maurya has supervised 50 M.Phil. dissertations and 41 Ph.D. and one D.Sc. theses under his efficient guidance. He has published over 250 research papers and 16 review articles in various National and International journals of repute. He has recently published seven books and also contributed five book chapters. Prof. Maurya is now an editorial board member of a couple of Research Journals of National and International repute, and is Referee/Reviewer of more than a dozen research journals of India and abroad. His research interest is in metal complexes of Bioinorganic, Catalytic and Medicinal Relevance, their 3D-Molecular modelings and Quantum Chemical DFT based Structural Parameters with Computer Simulations. His research group is presently working on metal complexes of NO, CO and H2S. Over 200 research papers of Dr. Maurya has been documented in Google Scholar and cited in more than 3000 other international publications with h-index 28 and i-10-index 94.

Dr. Parthapratim Munshi is an acclaimed chemical scientist and crystallographer. After his Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, he carried out postdoctoral research at the University of Western Australia. Subsequently, he received the prestigious Marie-Curie Fellowship and worked at Nancy University, France. Prior to joining Shiv Nadar University (SNU), he worked as a research scientist at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA. Currently, he is a full professor and head of the Chemistry Department at SNU. Dr. Munshi has published research papers extensively in journals published by IUCr, ACS, RSC and Wiley etc. In 2019, he was named as the Emerging Investigator in Crystal Growth & Design. In 2020, he was inducted as a member of the National Committee for IUCr and in 2021 as a member of the Commission on Quantum Crystallography of the IUCr. Very recently, he has become a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) and also joined as a member of the advisory board of CrystEngComm - Royal Society of Chemistry Journal.

Dr. P. Senthil Kumar works as an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering, Chennai, India. He has 14 years of teaching and research experience and 1 year of industrial experience. His h-index is 41 along with more than 6273 Google citations. Under his guidance, 10 Ph.D. Scholars have completed and 08 Ph.D. scholars are currently doing their active research in the area of Waste Water Treatment, Environmental Nanobiotechnology and Alternative Fuels. He has published more than 225 research papers in highly reputed International Journals and 100 research papers in National and International Conferences. He also published more than 100 book chapters with Elsevier, Springer, CRC Press etc. publishers.

Deepak Pathania is Professor Cum Head Cum Dean of the Central University of Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Presently, he is also serving as founder President of Him Science Congress Association, Himachal Pradesh, India. He is also working as conveners of different committees and a member of different professional scientific societies. He is a member of Academic Council and Board of Studies of different Universities and also served as President of Jammu Central University Shikshak Sangh affiliated to Akhil Bhartiya Rashtriya Shaikshik Mahasangh. He joined as Assistant Professor and Head of the Department of Applied Sciences at the Institute of Engineering and Technology, Phagwara, Punjab in 2005. He has guided 15 Ph.D and 14 M.Phil and 37 M.Sc research projects for their respective degrees. He had about 147 publications in reputed Journals and 140 publications in conferences to his credit has published 18 book chapters. Dr. Pathania has filled ten national patents. His research h-index is 41 and i10-index is 80. He. His area of research includes polymer based composites, nanocomposite ion exchangers, fiber reinforced composite, environmental chemistry, metal sensors, photocatalysis degradation of organic and inorganic pollutants etc.

Dr. Ravi Pratap Singh is presently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial & Production Engineering at Dr. B. R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, Punjab, India. He is a Life Member of Indian Institution of Industrial Engineering (IIIE), Mumbai, India, and SCIence and Engineering Institute (SCIEI), Log Angeles, USA. Dr Singh is also a Senior Member of Indian Society of Mechanical Engineers (ISME), Chennai, India. He has published more than 110 research articles throughout the several SCI / Scopus indexed journals, including International / National level conferences. He is also academically engaged with the editorship and reviewership with the several SCI/ Scopus indexed Journals from the last 9-10 years. He is also a Guest Editor of World Journal of Engineering (Emerald Publications), International Journal of Sustainable Materials and Structural Systems, and International Journal of Six Sigma and Competitive Advantage (Inderscience Publisher). Dr. Singh has organized several national/international conferences at NIT Jalandhar as a convener/organizing secretary/session coordinator, etc. Besides research excellence, he has awarded as Young Scientist in Mechanical Engineering in VIRA-2019 awards, as Young Faculty in Engineering (Major Area: Mechanical Engineering) in VIFA-2019 awards, and as Best Researcher Award in 4th International Scientist Awards on Engineering, Science, and Medicine during January, 2020 in New Delhi, India. He has delivered several Expert Talks/Lectures at different levels of platform throughout the country. He has also been nominated as General Chair Reviewer, Technical Program Committee, National Advisory Committee, etc. during various national/international events held in China, Norway, and India. In addition to this, he is also serving as an Ambassador of Bentham Open, Sharjah, UAE as well as a Member of Visor Academic Committee, Singapore. Dr. Singh has also been ranked among top 2% Scientists in the world as per the survey conducted by STANFORD University for the year 2021.

Kuldeep Dhama, M.V.Sc., Ph.D, is working as Principal Scientist in ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute, India. With 25 years of research and teaching experience in areas of microbiology, immunology, virology, he has developed several diagnostics, vaccines, immunomodulatory regimens, hypotheses to counter infectious diseases of animals, poultry, and public health concerns. He has 700 research publications, 6 books, 65 book chapters, honored with 55 Best Paper Awards and other recognitions. He is an Associate of National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, India, worked as Nodal Officer, WTO, and member of Wildlife Health Specialist Group (IUCN). He is serving as Editor in nearly 20 scientific journals. His Google scholar h-index is 50 and Scopus h-index is 36.

Dr. Vinod Kumar has completed his master degree from Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla in Organic Chemistry. He has done his PhD in Organic Chemistry from Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology, Palampur through GNDU Amritsar. He joined Department of Pharmacy, University of Siena, Italy as postdoc fellow and worked with Prof. G Campiani for two years. Thereafter, Dr. Vinod moved to Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology,University of Bath, UK and worked in the research group of Prof. Stephen Husbands for two and a half years. As a postdoctoral fellow, Dr Vinod worked extensively in the field of medicinal chemistry, especially in the design and synthesis and neuroactive compounds. In June 2012, Dr Vinod joined as one of the founding faculty of Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Central University of Punjab, Bathinda. Thereafter, he joined Department of Chemistry, as Associate Professor and Head of the Department in the same University. Dr Vinod has received research fundings from different agencies including DST, CSIR, BRNS, UGC etc. Dr Vinod has also received visiting fellowship from DST and Oead (Austria) for two years (2017 to 2019) under Indo-Austria joint projects. He is working in collaboration with Prof. Ira-Ida Skvortsova of the Department of Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology, University of Innsbruck,Innsbruck, Austria. Dr Vinod is an editorial board member of Current Organic Chemistry and received various awards and fellowships from different organizations.

Dr. Gaurav Sharma research activity started in 2009 at Shoolini University (India) as master of philosophy student, and then, he continued his research work as PhD student with the preparation and characterization of diverse multifunctional nanomaterials, and their composites, specially focused on potential applications in environmental remediation (as photocatalysts and adsorbents). In 2014, he became an Associate Professor in the School of chemistry at Shoolini University (India), where he carried out diverse research lines, interrelated to each other based on synthesis and characterization of nanocomposites, hydrogels, bi and trimetallic nanoparticles, ion exchangers, adsorbents and photocatalysts etc. He has supervised 5 Master of Philosophy, and more than 25 Masters and Bachelors students. He joined as postdoctoral fellow at college of materials science and engineering, Shenzhen University. He is reviewer of more than 30 journals He has to his credit more than 125 publications (Total: 128)-SCI. He has published 9 book chapters and edited four books. Furthermore, the impact of his research has been highlighted by the fact that 20 of his publications are highly cited articles in Web of Science with total citations more than 1900. His h-index is 47, citations: 4886 (web of science); Google Scholar: h-index is 50, citations: 5194. He is Associate Editor of the International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology (Springer).

Dr. Pradip Sarawade is Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Mumbai. He is a recognized Ph.D. guide in the Department of Physics, Centre for Nanosciences and Nanotechnology and Department of Chemistry since 2015. He has supervised 3 Ph.D. and 4 M. Phil. students and more than 40 MSc, project students. Currently, 3 Ph.D. and 1 M. Phil. Students are pursuing their research work under his guidance. He received the Gold Medal for best doctoral thesis from Hanyang University, South Korea. He developed a convenient synthetic protocol for the millimeter and micrometer sized hydrophobic & hydrophilic nanoporous Silica Aerogel beads with 3D nanostructures under ambient conditions during his postdoctoral research at Hanyang University.He has published more than 65 articles with total impact factor of more than 350, h-index 26 and more than 1800 citations; in high-impact journals such as Chemistry of Materials, ChemSusChem, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, and Chemical Engineering Journal, Journal of Material Chemistry –A etc. Including a book on silica aerogels.

Dr. Neeraj Kumar Sethiya had joined the Faculty of Pharmacy, DIT University in 2019 in a capacity of Assistant Professor I. He worked as Head of the Department, Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship Development. Prior to this, he also worked as Senior Innovation Fellow, at National Innovation Foundation-India (An Autonomous Body of DST- Govt of India), Formulation Scientist, at Regen Biocorps, Vadodara and Teaching Assistant at Pharmacy Department, The MS University of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujarat. He has a total 14 years of mixed experience including teaching, research and innovation. Dr. Sethiya completed his PhD (Pharmacy) in March, 2012 from The MS University of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujarat, M. Pharm from Dr. H. S. Gour Central University Sagar, MP and B. Pharm from RGPV Bhopal. He is a recipient of the SPER Young Scientist Award, Dr. PD Sethi did UGC JRF Research Fellowship for pursuing both Postgraduate and PhD. He is also acting as consultant for an industrial project and principal investigator for a Govt funded project. During his tenure, he achieved ResearchGate score- 43.82, H. index- 20, and total citation of 1722 (Google Scholar Score) with 38 peer reviewed papers, 5 book chapters and 7 books. His major research includes, target oriented and lead based design and development of New Chemical Entities (NCEs) from natural scaffolds against Anti-stress, Anxiolytic, Anti-arthritis, Antidiabetic, Antioxidant, Alzheimer’s, Antimalarial, Hepatoprotective, Antiurolithiatic and Cosmeceuticals. He is an expert speaker for many conferences, workshops and webinars. Additionally, he is a recognized Mentor for IIT Mumbai, IIT Kharagpur, Member Advisory Board Yuva Incubates, Startup India and Startup Uttarakhand and Innovation Ambassador for Innovation Council, Ministry of Education, Govt of India. He duly provided mentorship for more than 50 startups across the nation. Recently, Dr. Sethiya has been enlisted in the world top 2% list by Stanford University in October 2021.

Prof. Saha is a full professor of chemistry in the department of chemistry, The University of Burdwan, Bardhaman, WB, India. He obtained his PhD degree under Prof. Asim K. Das, Visva Bharati, on electron transfer reaction in micellar media. In addition, Saha was a postdoctoral fellow at UBC, Vancouver, Canada, with Prof. C. Orvig. His area of interest is organic transformations, catalysis, surfactant chemistry and bioremediation. He has published more than 130 research articles in reputed journals.

Professor Naseem Ahmed received his Ph.D. degree in 2001 in Organic Chemistry from Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), Aligarh. He is the recipient of Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) and Canadian Breast Cancer Research Alliance (CBCRA) Fellowship (2002-2008) at the University of Sherbrooke, Canada during Postdoctoral Research. He has been the Assistant Professor of Organic and Medicinal Chemistry at the IIT Roorkee in 2008, was promoted to Associate Professor of Chemistry in 2014, and currently holds the position of Professor of Organic Chemistry and Medicinal Chemistry at IIT Roorkee since 2020.

Professor Pankaj Das did his M.Sc (1995) in Chemistry from Gauhati University, India and Ph.D (2002) from CSIR, NEIST (formerly Regional Research Laboratory), Jorhat, Assam, India affiliated to Dibrugarh University, India. He did his Ph.D work in the area of Organometallic Chemistry under supervision of Dr. Dipak Kumar Dutta, Scientist, Material Science Division. After completing his Ph.D, he worked as postdoctoral fellow for one year (2002-2003) at the University of Brest, France, with Prof. Philippe Schollahammer and two years (2003-2005) at the University of Porto, Portugal with Prof. Cristina Freire. In 2005, he joined the Chemistry Department, Dibrugarh University, Assam as a Lecturer and continued until July 2012. He then moved to the Rajiv Gandhi Central University, Arunachal Pradesh as Associate Professor and was promoted to full Professor in May 2014. After spending two years at Rajiv Gandhi University, in July 2014 he again came back to Dibrugarh University as a Professor and continues till date. Prof. Das also served as Head of the Department of Chemistry for two years (2012-2014) at Rajiv Gandhi University and three years (2015-2018) at Dibrugarh University. His present research is mainly concerned with platinum group metal based homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis.

Dr. Yuvaraj M. Hunge works at Tokyo University of Science, Japan. His fields of expertise include Photoelectrocatalysis, sonochemistry, heterogeneous catalyst synthesis and characterization, photocatalytic hydrogen production, and photocatalysis. He received a prestigious National postdoctoral fellowship from the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), New Delhi, Government of India. Also, he is a recipient of Savitribai Phule Pune University, Postdoctoral fellowship (SPPU-PDF), from Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune. Also, he is an editorial board member and reviewer of many international journals.

Dr. Deepak Chopra is currently a Professor in the Department of Chemistry at IISER Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. He received his degree in B.Sc. (H) Chemistry (Gold Medalist) from Jadavpur University in 2001. He completed the Integrated PhD program from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and postdoctoral work at the University of Toledo, Ohio, USA. His active research interests include intermolecular interactions, and polymorphism in molecular crystals. He is currently on the editorial board of the Journal of Molecular Structure, a Co-Editor of the journal Acta Crystallographica E (IUCr, Chester) and a Fellow of the Indian Chemical Society and the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Javaid Ahmad Sheikh is a Doctorate in Electronics from University of Kashmir, Srinagar in the field of wireless Communications and RF Engineering. His expertise in the fields of Communications, RF and Signal Processing has been acknowledged by several originations in terms of publications of papers in top journals. He has supervised several doctoral students for the award of their Ph. D and M. Phil degrees. He is working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronics and I. T University of Kashmir, Srinagar. Dr. Sheikh has guided more than 7 Hundred (100) technical projects having societal relevance. His field of interest is Wireless Communications, design and development of efficient Massive MIMO based 5G and 6G communication systems, Quantum Machine Learning for future networks, Efficient Antenna and filter design and signal processing for communication systems.

Dr. Arun Dev Sharma has 17 yrs of rich experience in teaching and research. He has published about 80 papers in national and international journals. He has supervised more than 40 students at PG level and 1 student at PhD level. He is also the coordinator of DST govt. of India INSPIRE and unnat bharat abiyan programmes. He received about 5 research projects from UGC, DBT and DST govtf India. Dr. Sharma received the best teacher award from the Punjab academy of sciences. In addition, he has presented his findings in various countries like the USA, Italy, China and Poland. He has conducted various conferences and workshops at national and state level and has received grants from DBT, DST and UGC Govt of India. At present, he is working in the area of phytochemistry. During his research, 3 herbal products have been launched, including eucalyptus oil, lemongrass powder and herbal pesticide. At present, he is actively working on the role of eucalyptus oil on covid-19 and black fungus diseases in India. Under DST-SEED govt of India programme, and kind support from Principal Dr. GS Samra, he has trained many people across Jalandhar on the extraction of essential oils and their use from underutilized crops for the upliftment of scocio-economic conditions of citizens in Jalandhar district.

Dr. Gayatri Tripathi is a recognized researcher in the field of fish disease diagnosis and health management. Currently, she is working as a Principal Scientist, Division of Aquatic Animal and Health Management at ICAR- Central Institute of Fisheries Education, Mumbai. She is holding memberships of highly acclaimed professional societies and effectively working as an editor and reviewers for reputed journals. She has completed 3 projects as PI and 10 projects as Co-PI. She has led technical presentations at different scientific forums and the assessment of project applications and reports. She has an enviable track record of scientific achievements through scientific publications as well as researching and implementing new scientific concepts and procedures. Dr. Tripathi has the competencies to independently design projects and experiments and is known for superior written and verbal communication, documentation skills along with the ability to effectively work in interdisciplinary teams. She has been awarded the Best Scientist and Best Extension Scientist Award by the Institute for her excellent performance. She has guided several Ph.D. and M.F.Sc. students. She has published more than 50 research papers in both national and international peer reviewed journals, 15 popular and review articles, 41 manual chapters, 4 technical bulletins and 3 book chapters. Her total citations are 1450, h-index-19 and i10-index-29.

Dr. Nadhir Abbas Al-Ansari received his Ph.D. from Dundee University in 1976. Currently, he is serving as a Professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden, as well as a Professor in the Department of Environmental management, The Arab Open Academy in Denmark. His principal research interests are in water resources and environment. He has published more than 800 papers in scientific journals and International conferences as well as 12 books in these fields.

Dr. Mohd Dilshad Ansari is currently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at CMR College of Engineering & Technology, Hyderabad, India. He received his M.Tech and Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering from Jaypee University of Information Technology, Waknaghat, Solan, HP, India in 2011 and 2018, respectively. He has more than 10 years of Academic/Research Experience; and has published more than 70 papers in the International Journals (SCIE/Scopus) and conferences (IEEE/Springer). His research interests include Digital & Fuzzy Image Processing, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, IoT and Cloud Computing.

Hossein Bonakdari, Ph.D., P.Eng., is a faculty member of the department of Soil and Agri-Food Engineering at Laval University, Quebec, Canada. With a decade of research and teaching reputation, he has achieved extensive experience to highlight new insight for creating comprehensive methodologies in the fields of fundamental and applied sciences through the decision-making abilities of artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques. Results obtained from his research have been published in more than 250 published papers in international journals. His h-index=42 with more than 5000 citations. Recently, he was ranked in the world 39 top scientists in various fields.

Prof. P K Joshi is a Professor at the School of Environmental Sciences (SES), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India has immensely contributed in understanding geosphere and biosphere interactions while using inputs from earth observation systems and geospatial technology. He has addressed some of the pressing questions related to climate change while integrating dataset from a variety of land use land cover, and glacier, precipitation and temperature regimes. His research work also contributes to disaster risk reduction while assessing the impact and vulnerability of climate change. He is a recipient of Indian Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Sciences India - Young Scientist Medals, and National Remote Sensing Award of ISRS/ISRO. He is a Fellow of Indian Academy of Environmental Sciences (FIAES), Fellow of Indian Geophysical Union (FIGU) and Fellow of National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (FNAAS).

Dr. Manoj Khandelwal is the Program Coordinator of mining engineering at Federation University and is an Australian Endeavour Fellow. Dr. Khandelwal has completed his bachelor's degree in mining engineering from Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture & Technology, India, master's in rock mechanics from Indian Institute of Technology, Varanasi and PhD in rock engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. Before joining Federation University Australia, He worked as an Assistant Professor of mining engineering at Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture & Technology. He was also a postdoctoral researcher at Monash University. He has more than fifteen years of research and academic teaching experience in Australia and India. Dr. Khandelwal has been recognized as a leading expert in ‘Mining Geomechanics’ and ‘Rock Blasting’. So far, he has published more than 140 research papers in different reputed journals and conference proceedings. His total citations are more than 4500 and his current h index is 38. He is also the author of a technical book. He has successfully completed several research and consultancy research projects in his area of interest. He has been awarded a number of prestigious awards, such as the Young Scientist Award received from the President of India during the 93rd Indian Science Congress, the Young Engineers Award by Institution of Engineers’ India, Dr. Khandelwal is a member of the editorial board of several international journals published from various continents and a reviewer of more than 100 international journals.

Dr. Dookie Kim is a licensed professional engineer both in Korea and in the United States. He received his Bachelor degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Korea University in 1993, and he earned his Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in 1995 and 1999, respectively. He spent almost three and half years from 1999 - 2003 as a post-doctoral researcher at Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI), University of California, Irvine (UCI), and University of California, Berkeley, and as a senior researcher at UNISON Co. Ltd. Since March 2003, Dr. Kim has been teaching, researching, and consulting in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Kunsan National University. He has published several books and more than 100 international journal papers. His research interests are: a) structural dynamics such as vibration control, seismic design, and system identification, b) artificial intelligence such as neural network, support vector machine, and c) probability engineering such as reliability design, LCC analysis, etc.

Since 2019, Dr. Anurag Malik is serving at Punjab Agricultural University as a Scientist (Agril. Engg.). He received his Bachelor’s degree (Agril. Engg.) from Aligarh College of Engineering and Technology, Aligarh in 2011, and Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Soil and Water Conservation Engineering from G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand during 2014 and 2019, respectively. His research fields are modeling hydrological variables using artificial intelligence techniques, trend analysis, watershed prioritization, groundwater quality analysis, drip irrigation system, and crop modeling. He has published more than 74 publications in national and international journals of repute and 6 book chapters. He is also serving as a reviewer for more than 39 international journals. Dr. Malik is also a recipient of the Young Scientist Award for outstanding contribution in the field of Agricultural Engineering by the Agricultural Technology Development Society (ATDS) in 2021.

Sharnil Pandya (Senior Member, IEEE) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Symbiosis Institute of Technology, Maharashtra, India, and a Research Faculty with the Symbiosis Centre for Applied AI (SCAAI), Maharashtra. He has also worked on two national-level funded projects: Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO), New Delhi, India, and the Department of Science and Technology (DST), New Delhi. He has published more than 50 international publications in reputed journals and published six patents. Furthermore, he has also served as a reviewer for reputed journals such as the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS, the IEEE INTERNET OF THINGS, IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL, IEEE JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL AND HEALTH INFORMATICS. His research interests include healthcare informatics, smart sensing, acoustics and sound.

Dr. Binh Thai Pham is a researcher, lecturer, Head of the Department of Geotechnical Engineering, Vice Head of Science, Technology and International Corporation Department at the University of Transport Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam. He has also been appointed as a special assistant professor at Hiroshima University, Japan (2019 up to now). He received a PhD degree in Civil Engineering from the Gujarat Technological University, Gujarat, India. His research focuses on natural hazard modelling and assessment, machine learning, artificial intelligence, geographic information system, remote sensing, geotechnical engineering problems, and construction materials. Dr. Binh Thai Pham has published more than 150 scientific publications mainly on peer-reviewed international journals indexed SCI, SCIE, SCOPUS. Out of these, 02 papers were classified on top 0.1% of papers having the highest number of citations (hot papers), and 40 papers were classified on top 1% of papers having the highest number of citations (highly cited papers). He is also a scientific reviewer of more than 50 ISI journals. He is one of the Editors who edited a book entitled: “Big Data Analysis for Green Computing” published in CRC Press. He is also a member of Vietnam society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, and Editorial board member of several journals like Vietnam Journal of Earth Sciences.

Manik Sharma is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Applications, DAV University Jalandhar. He is MCA, UGC-NET qualified and has received his PhD degree in “Distributed Query Optimization” from IKG Punjab Technical University, Kaputhala, India. Dr. Sharma has more than 15 years of teaching and research experience. His research interests include Machine Learning, Optimization Techniques, Health Informatics and Smart Systems. The thrust area is to design a smart and innovative Decision Support System for the effective diagnosis and management of different behavioral and mental disorders. Dr. Sharma authored/co authored over 40 International Journal articles, Conference Proceedings, and Book Chapters. He is an Editor-in-Chief of EAI Endorsed Transaction on Pervasive Health and Technology (Scopus Indexed) and Co-Editor- in-Chief of EAI Endorsed Transaction on Scalable Information System (ESCI indexed). Additionally, he is a part of the editorial board of several reputed international journals including Soft Computing (Springer), Cluster Computing (Springer), and IEEE Access. Moreover, he has been on program committees of over 100 international conferences as a member of International Program Committees, Technical Program Committees, and Advisory Committees of several academic conferences (United Kingdom, Singapore, Mauritius, Thailand, Vietnam, USA, Hong Kong, Canada, UAE, and India).

Dr. Rajiv Singh is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Banasthali Vidyapith, India. He has more than 10 years of teaching and research experience in the field of computer vision and image processing. He has received PhD in Computer Science from University of Allahabad, India. He has published more than 40 articles in indexed journals (SCI/SCIE) and conference proceedings. He is Senior Member of IEEE, Life Member of Computer Society of India and professional member of ACM. He has served as a designated reviewer for a few journals of repute including IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging, Information Fusion, Journal of the Franklin Institute, The Visual Computer etc. He has served as a Member of Technical Program Committee for many conferences and was Publication Chair in the IEEE IAC3T 2018, technically sponsored by IEEE.

Dr. Amit Kumar Verma is currently an Associate Professor in the department of Mining Engineering at Prestious Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi. He obtained his PhD from Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay and worked at several renowned institutes across globe like Indian School of Mines Dhanbad, 3S Laboratory, Grenoble, France and University of California Davis, USA. He was a visiting faculty at Clausthal University of Technology, Germany and Endevour Executive Fellow at Monash University, Australia. He is a recipient of prestigious awards like Institute of Engineers Young Engineers Award 2014- 15, Inspire Faculty Fellowship – 2012 by DST and INSA, Endevour Executive Fellowship by Australian Government and Dr. K.S. Krishnan Research Associateship-24 in 2012 by Board of Research on Nuclear Sciences. Dr. Verma has published more than 70 papers in the field of Mining Engineering. He is a member of the reviewer board of several SCI journals.

Dr. Wengang Zhang is currently a full professor in the School of Civil Engineering, Chongqing University, China. His research interests focus on impact assessment on the built environment induced by underground construction, as well as big data and machine learning in geotechnics and geoengineering. He serves as Associate Editor for Geoscience Frontiers, and editorial board member for Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering and Georisk. He is now a member of the ISSMGE TC304 (Reliability), TC309 (Machine Learning) and TC219 (System Performance of Geotechnical Structures). He has been selected as the World’s Top 2% Scientists 2020.

Dr. Bivudutta Mishra received his Ph.D. degree from Sambalpur University, Odisha, India in 2003. His main area of research is Cosmology and Relativity and currently working on the theoretical aspects of Dark Energy and Modified Theory of Gravity. He has already published more than 100 research papers in these areas of research in journals of national and international repute. He has presented several research papers and delivered invited talks in these areas in national and international conferences held in India and abroad. He has conducted several academic and scientific events in the department. He has become a member of the scientific advisory committee of national and international academic events. He has successfully completed two sponsored projects: one each from University Grants.

Prabir Rudra received his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), Shibpur, India in 2016, working on the gravitational collapse of stars and the dynamics of some dark energy models. Then he joined Asutosh College, Kolkata, India as an Assistant Professor of Mathematics, where he is serving till date. He is a visiting associate of the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune, India. His research interest includes gravitational collapse of stars, dynamics of dark energy models, modified gravity theories, astronomical data analysis, black holes, naked singularities, etc. Till date he has published over 40 research papers in reputed international journals and has collaborated with various national and international researchers. He has refereed for over a dozen of international journals. He is also a reviewer of the American Mathematical Society.

Dr. Sunil Kumar Tripathy obtained his Ph.D. Degree in Theoretical Nuclear Physics from Sambalpur University and was involved in teaching students at different institutes in the state of Odisha. Presently, he is working as an Associate Professor of Physics at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology, Sarang, an autonomous institute of the Odisha State Govt. Dr. Tripathy has a keen research interest in the fields of Neutron Star, Nuclear Equation of State, Cosmology, Modified Gravity, Astrophysics and Semiconducting materials. To his credit, Dr. Tripathy has published more than 75 articles in the national and international journals.

Dr. Amit Roy is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biotechnology, Savitribai Phule Pune University, India. He obtained his Ph.D degree in 2009 from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India and was awarded Postdoctoral Fellowship from “Danish Cancer Society, Denmark” in February 2010 and Carlsberg Foundation, Denmark in January 2011. He has completed his postdoc from Aarhus University, Denmark. He is a recipient of INSA Young Scientist Award (2011) by Indian National Science Academy (INSA), Govt. of India. His areas of specialization are molecular parasitology, drug development and therapeutics.

Dr. Shailendra Kumar Arya is an Assistant Professor of Biotechnology at the University Institute of Engineering and Technology (UIET), Panjab University, India. He did Ph.D in Biochemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, BHU, Varanasi. His research areas included Enzyme engineering, Waste water engineering, and Bioreactor modeling. Since 2006, he has been associated as a teacher in the dept. of biotechnology, UIET, Panjab University Chandigarh. He has 18 publications to his credit.

Dr. Sankar Chakma is presently working as Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. His research interest includes mechanistic investigation of sono-hybrid physical, chemical and biological processes for sustainable energy and environmental applications including production of renewable and alternative energy. He has received many awards, such as Hiyoshi Young Leaf Award-2017, Young Associate Fellowship-2017, IEI Young Engineers Award-2018, ISEES Young Scientist Award-2020 etc. for outstanding contributions in the field of engineering research and excellence in engineering technology development.

Dr. Bhupendra Singh Chauhan is currently working as a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, GLA University, Mathura (UP), India. He graduated from the Institution of Engineers (India) in 2002 and did Masters in Engineering from Delhi University (Delhi College of Engineering) in 2008. Dr. Bhupendra Singh Chauhan did his Ph.D. from Kongju National University, South Korea in 2011 and Post Doc from Pusan National University, South Korea. Dr. Bhupendra Singh Chauhan published more than 75 papers in SCI, Scopus and other Indexed Journals and International Conferences, till date. He is a reviewer of more than 15 SCI Journals for more than 80 papers. He guided 4 Ph.D., 7 National and International Scholarships, with a teaching and research experience of more than 18 years. Dr. Bhupendra Singh Chauhan is a member of 5 different International Societies. He received more than 150 awards from various National and International Organizations. He has delivered many invited talks and lectures in different reputed organizations. His Google Citations are over 1825, h-index is 13 (till April 2022), Scopus Citation is over 1313, h-index is 11, Current total SCI-Impact Factor is 97.741. He has to his credit 4 Indian patents, 7 books published by International publishers, and has edited 8 books.

Dr. Y.V.D. Nageswar is the Former Chief Scientist (CSIR-IICT) and Dean (NIPER-Hyderabad). After Obtaining M.Sc., PhD, he joined Regional Research Laboratory, Hyderabad in 1980. He worked in synthetic organic chemistry, heterocyclic chemistry, medicinal chemistry, supramolecular chemistry, and nanocatalysis. He has published nearly 120 papers in national and international journals and 20 books and book chapters and reviews. He was associated as an expert in a number of academic institutes and government bodies.

A. M. Vinu Mohan is currently working as an INSPIRE Faculty (DST) at the Electrodics &Electrocatalysis Division, CSIR-Central Electrochemical Research Institute, Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu, India. He received his Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India in 2014. He completed postdoctoral research from Dr. Joseph Wang’s research group at the University of California, San Diego, USA. Currently, he is focused on the development of flexible and stretchable energy storage devices, wearable biofuel cells for energy harvesting, multiplexed electrochemical transducers for healthcare monitoring and microfluidics based biosensing systems.

Dr. Umer Rashid has been working as a Fellow Researcher and Associate Professor at the Institute of Advanced Technology, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia since 2011. He did Post Doctorate in Green Engineering from the Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia, and PhD in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan. His research is focused on the development of metal and bio-based heterogeneous nano-catalysts from waste biomass and renewable fuels from non-conventional oils to enhance agricultural utilization, using conventional and microwave technologies, while simultaneously replacing existing conventional catalysts and fuels based on petroleum.

Dr. Giovani Leone Zabot is a professor at the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM) – Brazil since 2015. He became a permanent professor in the Post-Graduate Program of Agricultural Engineering (UFSM) in 2016. He received a bachelor’s degree in Food Engineering in 2011 and his DSc. in Food Engineering from the Current Indian Science University of Campinas – UNICAMP/Brazil in 2015. His main subjects of research are Chemical Processes, Food Process Engineering, Supercritical Technology, Extraction, Hydrolysis of Lignocellulosic Biomass, and Biofuels.

Dr. Vijay K Bharti has more than 16 years of research experience in Veterinary Science, Life Sciences, and Biomedical Sciences at different organizations in different capacities. He is presently working as a Scientist. His fields of interest are High-Altitude physiology and nutrition, Gut-microbial biology, Water quality and metal toxicology, Metal nanoparticles, and Chronobiology-pineal gland.

Dr. Sinosh Skariyachan is working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Microbiology, St. Pius X College Rajapuram, Kasaragod, Kerala, India. He has pursued his post-graduations in Microbiology (M. Sc) and Bioinformatics (M. Sc) and obtained his Ph. D in Biotechnology. He has more than sixteen years of experience in teaching and research. His key research domains are Computational Biology & Bioinformatics, Molecular Modeling and Computational Drug Designing, Chemoinformatics, Genomics and Proteomics, Medical Microbiology (Antimicrobial resistance), Environmental and Food Microbiology.

Dr. Tamal Mandal is a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the National institute of Technology, Durgapur. He did PhD in Chemical Engg from the Jadavpur University, Kolkata, M.Tech in Chemical Engg from the National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, M.Tech in Biotechnology from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, and B. Tech in Chemical Engg from the Jadavpur University, Kolkata.

Dr. A. Murugesan did post graduation in chemistry from C. B. M. College, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, India. He did his doctoral studies during 2010 to 2013, from the Dept of Applied Science and Technology, Anna University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India under the supervision of Dr. S. Sivanesan. He worked as Research Associate, from 2013 to 2014. Then from 2014 to 2016, he worked as CSIR-Research Associate at Polymer Advanced Materials Lab, Dept of Polymer Science and Engineering, CSIR-NCL, Pune under the guidance of Dr. S. Sivaram. Dr. A. Murugesan became the Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Polymer Science at Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India in 2016. He obtained Bharat Vikas Award for Publications - ISR/BVA/2017-18 and Scibay Young Researcher Award by Society for Chemical and Synthetic Biology at Scibay International Conference on Science, Engineering, Technology and Management, at Chennai. Murugesan has researched on various fields like Conversion of plastic waste into alternative fuels and value-add chemicals, Pyrolysis of catalytic depolymerization, Polymeric membrane synthesis, Upcycling of polymer wastes, Porous polymers for energy related applications, Adsorption Separation Technology and Wastewater treatment. He has published 26 journal papers and 1 patent work. He is supervising five Ph.D. scholars and guiding many UG and PG students. He has completed four faculty funded and seven student funded sponsored projects. He is a reviewer in many international journals like Chemical Engineering Journal, Environment Progress and Sustainable Energy, etc. He has Lifetime membership in the Society of Polymer Science, India, MS No: 452; and a lifetime membership in Association of Chemistry Teachers, Maharashtra, India, MS No: 2268 professional bodies.

Dr. Pritish Kumar Varadwaj received his Ph.D. in Information Technology from the Indian Institute of Information Technology-Allahabad, India in the year 2009. He is currently a Professor at Indian Institute of Information Technology-Allahabad (IIITA), India. In addition, he is also leading the Systems Biology Group at IIITA. His main research interests are in the field of Machine Learning, Big Data Analytics, and Data Mining of Biological Data. He has co-authored in more than 120 peer review journal publications of national and international repute.

Sushil Kumar Gupta is a Professor of Chemistry at Jiwaji University, Gwalior, India. He is the Chairman, Board of Studies in Chemistry, Coordinator Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) and Head of the Department of Chemistry. Dr. Gupta received master’s level training in Inorganic Chemistry from the L. N. Mithila University, Darbhanga and doctoral training in Coordination Chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. In addition to conducting research, Dr. Gupta teaches Inorganic Chemistry, Spectroscopy and X-ray Crystallography to postgraduate students. He also made contributions in Chemistry Textbooks of NCERT and in designing postgraduate level courses dealing with instrumentation and commercial methods of analysis, environmental chemistry and chemical sales & marketing management.Dr. Gupta’s professional interests are in the area of synthesis, structural coordination and organometallic chemistry with profound focus on structure-property relationship and its therapeutic use

Dr. Abhinav Kumar did PhD in Chemistry from Banaras Hindu University, and joined as Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry, University of Lucknow in 2009. Dr. Abhinav did research in the area of Coordination Chemistry dealing with transition as well as main group metals, where his research group worked on the synthesis and characterization of targeted dithiolate complexes. Besides, his group is working to develop targeted Coordination Polymers (CPs)/Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) as sensors for nitroaromatic explosives and as photocatalysts for safe degradation of aromatic dyes in waste-water discharge. He is also doing some exceptional work in the area of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells especially encompassing ferrocenyl moiety and Single-Source Precursors for binary and ternary metal chalcogenide

Dr. Prabhakara M.C. is serving as Assistant Professor from the past 13 years in the Department of Post Graduate Studies and Research in Industrial Chemistry, Sir. M.V. Govt. Science College, Bommanakatte, Bhadravathi, Karnataka, INDIA and actively involved in teaching as well as research. The underlying research theme of his work is DNA binding and cleavage studies of metal complexes. He completed one minor research project from University Grants Commission (UGC) as a principal investigator. He published more than 40 research papers in national/international journals and also delivered invited talk and presented research findings at national/international seminars/conferences/workshops. Besides this, he is a professional member of different academic bodies, such as Society for Material Chemistry, BARC. Indian Society of Analytical Scientists (ISAS, Belagavi Chapter).

Dr. Shahid obtained Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry from AMU, Aligarh, India in 2011. During his Ph.D., he worked on Synthesis, spectral and single crystal X-ray crystallographic characterization of novel mono or polynuclear complexes of transition, rare earth and tin metal ions and designing of 1D, 2D and 3D networks. He did his B.Sc.in Physics, Chemistry & Maths and M.Sc. in Chemistry from CSJM Kanpur. He did his Post-Doctoral fellowship of DST, New Delhi on designing of molecule based MAGNETS. He has been teaching Inorganic Chemistry to the undergraduate and postgraduate students in Department of Chemistry, AMU, Aligarh India. He has an expertise in Synthesis of polynuclear clusters which are characterized employing Single Crystal X-ray Crystallography and other modern Spectroscopic techniques like FTIR, Mossbauer, NMR, MS and EPR. He has been awarded Fast Track Young Scientist award by Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India and Research Associate award by CSIR, New Delhi. Recently, He has been awarded the "Outstanding Faculty Award in Science (Major-Chemistry)" by Venus International foundation, Chennai in July 2019. Currently, he is involved as Principal Investigator in a Research Project of DST, New Delhi, on Designing and magnetic studies of Molecular Nano-magnets which are described as Single Molecule Magnets or SMMs (Aug 2012-July 2015). He is a member of various societies including American Chemical Society (Inorganic Chemistry Division). He has read research papers in various national and international conferences/symposia. He is also Academic Editor of some international journals of repute like PLOS ONE (IF = 4.0) and Associate Editor of J. Trans. Met. Comp., International journal of chemical reactions and synthesis (Journals Pub). He has published more than 90 papers in International Journals of Repute.

Prof. M. Shakir is an Inorganic Chemist having teaching and research experience of more than three decades. He has published over 148 research papers in reputed National and International journals, with 2192 citations and h-index-28. He has guided 21 Ph.D. and 07 M. Phil students. He has received Certificate of recognition from International Centre for Diffraction Data, USA for his significant contribution to Powder diffraction file-2018. Prof. Shakir has been a member of a number of National Scientific Bodies and American Chemical Society (ACS). He has also been a member of important University bodies like Board of Studies, Academic Council, Executive Council and University Court. Prof. Shakir has organized a number of National and International Conferences in the Department of Chemistry, A.M.U, Aligarh and has represented Aligarh Muslim University as a speaker in several International Conferences.

Dr. A.S. Aswar is presently working as Professor and Head of the Department of Chemistry, Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University. He obtained his M.Sc. degree in 1986 and Ph.D degree in 1989 from Nagpur University, Nagpur. His research interests are in coordination and solid state chemistry, catalysis, solvent extraction and molecular interactions. He has guided 30 Ph.D’s and 15 M.Phil students. Dr. Aswar made a notable contribution in different areas of chemistry and published over 188 research papers in various national and international journals of repute and also authored two text books for B.Sc.III. He has organized more than 14 national conferences /workshops/seminars in various thrust areas of chemistry and organized six refresher courses in chemistry. He has participated in several symposia / conferences/workshops in India and abroad and presided over many technical sessions and worked as a jury also. He is a referee for several scientific journals in chemistry as well as for Ph.D. thesis of various Indian universities and has also worked on the panel of selection committee in various universities, research institutes and colleges. Dr.Aswar is a fellow and life member of several professional societies.

Dr. Har Lal Singh, Ph. D. in Chemistry from Rajasthan University Jaipur, has more than 20 years of professional experience in various capacities like Assistant Professor and Associate Professor and Professor, and Post-Doctoral Fellow (CSIR, MHRD Group, Govt. of India). He has published more than 60 research papers in various National & International reputed Journals of Chemistry and has presented many research papers at various National & International conferences. Moreover, Dr. Singh is on the editorial board of reputed journals of Chemistry. He is also a reviewer of the Royal Society of Chemistry, John Wiley & Sons, Springer, Taylor & Francis, Elsevier, Hindawi, and Bentham Science Publications, etc. His research interests include synthesis and characterization of novel oxygen, nitrogen, and sulfur donor ligands and their metal complexes.

Dr. Venkatesha R. Hathwar is UGC-Assistant professor of physics in the School of Physical and Applied Sciences at Goa University, Goa. He received his Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. Later he moved to the University of Augsburg, Germany and Aarhus University, Denmark for his postdoctoral research works. He was appointed as assistant professor of Overseas Education and Research Unit in the Faculty of Pure and Applied sciences at the University of Tsukuba, Japan. He received the ‘Rising star award’ from the Asian Crystallographic Association (AsCA) in 2009. His research interests include quantum crystallography, crystal engineering, structural materials science, and photoluminescent materials. He has published several research papers in leading journals published by Nature, IUCr, ACS, RSC, Elsevier and Wiley.

Dr. Christian Jelsch is the director of research at CNRS, Lorraine University, Nancy, France. Initially, he was trained in structural biology. Later, he expanded his research in the area of charge density and ultra-high resolution crystallography methodologies, applied notably to macromolecular crystallography. He is the main developer of software MoPro and ELMAM2 databank dedicated to charge density refinement and modelling. He has developed the contact enrichment ratio within MoProViewer software for statistical analysis of intermolecular interactions and enables pinpoint driving forces in crystal packing formation. Current research interests include molecular docking rescoring and interaction energy studies.

Dr. Susanta K. Nayak is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry, Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT), Nagpur, India. He obtained his PhD degree from Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore (2010). He went to Centre for Nano Science and Technology @ Polimi, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) & NFMLab-DCMIC "Giulio Natta" Politecnico di Milano, Italy to pursue his postdoctoral study. He was awarded with Marie Curie Research Fellow (IIF) to work at the Université de Rennes 1, France (2012-2014). His research group at VNIT mainly emphasizes on organic based molecules utilizing Crystal Engineering, Supramolecular chemistry, Liquid crystals for biological activity study as well as material application along with the establishment of Structure-Property relationship through experimental and computational analysis.

Dr Priyanka Sharma is presently working as Assistant Professor in Modern College of Arts, Science and Commerce College, Ganeshkhind, Pune. She completed her BSc (Hons), MSc (Hons) and PhD in Botany from Guru Nanak Dev University Campus, Amritsar. She has 12 years of research and teaching experience at postgraduate and graduate level. She was awarded UGC-Dr. D.S. Kothari Post-doctoral fellowship and highly prestigious DBT BioCare Women Scientist fellowship by the Dept. of Biotechnology (DBT) Govt. of India, New Delhi. She has been elected the fellow of Young Academy of India (YAI)-India’s first young academy in 2021. She has published various research articles and book chapters in reputed international journals by Elsevier and Springer Nature with high impact factor. She has also reviewed articles for several journals of international repute e.g. Journal of Hazardous Materials (Elsevier), Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety (Elsevier) and Acta Physiologiae Plantarum (Springer) etc.

Dr. Balram Ambade has done his Ph.D. in School of Studies in Chemistry, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University Raipur, CG, India and Master of Science from the same university. He is currently working as Professor in the Department of Chemistry from National Institute of Technology Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India. He received many honorable awards and the recent one is Award of a SERB Early Career Research Award 2018. He is active and maintains scientific relations through editorial board membership for many national and international journals.

Dr. Prijitha R. G. is working at CORAL, IIT Kharagpur availing Women Scientist – A fellowship by Department of Science and Technology. She holds a master’s degree in Physics from Cochin University of Science and Technology and Ph.D. in Atmospheric Physics from Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris VI/LATMOS/CNRS, France. She has participated in various international programmes and contributed to Chapter 2 of WMO 2010 report on Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion. She is an editorial board member in International Journals. She has done research on cosmology, ozone and Indian rainfall. Her works include identification of ozone recovery and studies on the drivers of Indian rainfall using statistical models.

Prof. Pant is currently a professor of chemistry and Environmental Sciences at Central University of Himachal Pradesh, Dharamshala. He is also a Visiting Professor of Environmental and Chemical Science, Indira Gandhi Technological and Medical Sciences University, Arunachal Pradesh. Dr. Pant received a number of awards such as, he was the recipient of Silver Jubilee Research Fellowship award for the year 2003 by Kumaun University, Nainital (India); UCOST Young Scientist Award 2009, INSA visiting fellow 2010, DST-SERC visiting Fellow 2010. Dr. Pant has 05 patents in the area of waste management by green techniques and authored 13 books, 60 research papers in various national and international journals. He has guided 02 M.Phil, 10 Ph. D. thesis and 150 M. Sc. dissertations. Prof. Pant was the former Dean, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Central University of Himachal Pradesh, Dharamshala (H P). He was the chairman of the Non-Teaching Grievance Redressal Committee of CUH, Member of CUH Covid task force, and was involved in Dean Students Welfare (DSW) and Dean, Chemical Sciences.

Ambati Ranga Rao is a Senior Scientist and Associate Professor in the Department of Biotechnology at Vignan’s University, India. His research interests are in biotechnology, food science and technology, and plant secondary metabolites. Previously, Dr. Ranga Rao holds various scientific positions at Arizona State University, USA; Beijing Normal University and Hong Kong Baptist University, China; and University of Malaya, Malaysia. He is the author of more than 100 publications including research and review articles, books, book chapters, International/national conferences/symposia/invited talks/FDPs/workshops/STC. His research citations exceed 3500 with h-index (21) and i10-index (30) as Google Scholar. He has edited Five (5) books (CRC Press, Academic Press, and Springer Nature) as coeditor. He was selected for the prestigious Young Scientist Award at the World Food Science Congress by International Union of Food Science and Technology, Canada; Carl Storm International Diversity Fellowship Award by Gordon Research Conferences, USA; TWAS-Young Affiliate by Regional Office of SouthEast Asia and the Pacific Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. He is a life member of various scientific bodies. He is an associate fellow of Andhra Pradesh Akademi of Sciences, Government of Andhra Pradesh, India, and also a fellow of the Society of Applied Biotechnology, India. He is also serving as an editorial board member, guest editor for special issues, and reviewer for reputed international and national journals.

Dr. Jitendra Kumar Sundaray presently working as Head, Division of Fish Genetics and Biotechnology at ICAR- Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture, Kauaslayaganga, Bhubaneswar since April 2013. He has served as Director ICAR CIFA during January 2017 to April 2018. He has published more than 102 research publications in both national and international peer reviewed journals. In addition to this, he has 20 conference proceedings, 22 book chapters, 30 extension brochures, 3 technology bulletins and has edited 2 books as chief editor and 3 books as associate editor. He has completed 7 projects as PI and is heading 6 external funded projects. He has guided 15 M.Sc students and two students have completed PhD and one has completed Postdoc. Dr. Jitendra has completed a Center of Excellence project from DBT for the genetic improvement of Catla. He is the associate editor of Journal of the Indian Society of Coastal Agricultural Research, Canning Town. He is chief editor of the International Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic studies. He is the editorial board member of Journal of Fisheries and Life Sciences. He is the associate editor for special issues on fish reproduction in the Journal Frontiers in Aquatic Physiology and Biotechnology reports. He is the fellow of NESA, BRSI, ZSI, OES, ISCAR and AZRA. His total citations are 1417, h-index-19 and i10-index-40.

Dr. Prashanth Reddy Hanmaiahgari is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. His research interests include experimental and numerical modelling of free surface flows in open channels, fluvial hydrodynamics and pressurized flow in closed conduits. He frequently reviews manuscripts of reputed journals and he is an associate editor for a couple of reputed journals. He is actively involved in consultancy projects in his domain. He has published journal papers on turbulence, sediment transport, open channel hydraulics and unsteady flows in pipelines. He teaches open channel flow hydraulics, turbulence, water resources engineering, unsteady flows in pipelines, hydraulic structures and sediment transport.

Dr. Kasiviswanathan K S is an assistant professor in the Department of Water Resources Development and Management, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, India. He graduated with BE in Civil Engineering, MTech in Water Resources Development and PhD in Quantification of uncertainty in hydrological models. His current research at IIT Roorkee mainly focused on reservoir operation, flood forecasting, geospatial data analysis, multi-objective optimization, uncertainty, and risk quantification. He has published more than 30 papers in reputed high-impact factor international journals and conferences. He is a recipient of several prestigious awards such as the Berkner fellowship from American Geophysical Union, USA, Sivapalan Young Scientist award from International Association of Hydrological Sciences, United Kingdom, Early Career Research Award, Department of Science and Technology, India, and Eyes High Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Calgary, Canada. He is currently holding a research project worth approximately—half a million US dollars in collaboration with institutes from India and abroad.

Dr. Samson Jerold Samuel Chelladurai working as Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology (SKCET), Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India. He received a Gold Medal and secured University First Rank in post-graduation. He obtained a Ph.D. in Composite Materials in 2018. He specialized in manufacturing engineering. He has published many research articles in journals and served as editor for special issues in international journals. He has also published five books, five patents, and received grants worth $89,000 USD. He has received several awards from SKCET and other organizations and societies.

Dr. D.K. Dwivedi is currently a Professor in the Department of Physics and Material Science and Dean of Faculty Affairs, Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology, Gorakhpur. He obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from D.D.U. Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur. He started his career as Scientific Officer in Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai in 2001. He has served as Lecturer in Physics, D.D.U. Gorakhpur University for nearly 8 years. He joined as a reader in Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology, Gorakhpur in 2009. He to his credit has 178 publications in international Journals and Conferences. He has authored four books and one book is in press. Dr. Dwivedi has supervised 10 Doctoral theses and 6 are in progress. He has been awarded two major research projects. He has organized four national level conferences. His area of interest is amorphous semiconductors, nano structured materials, solar cell devices and fiber optic sensors.

Prof. S. Harikrishnan is a Professor and Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Kings Engineering College, Chennai, India. He received his B.E. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the University of Madras in 2002 and M.E. in Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineering and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Anna University in 2007 and 2015, respectively. He has organized four international conferences and delivered invited talks in many colleges in India. He has published 32 research articles in different journals of national and international repute. He guided two Ph.D. scholars successfully. His areas of research include phase change materials, nanofluids, and supercapacitors

Dr. N.Kanagathara is a Professor in the Department of Physics. She received her B.Sc in 1995 from Government College for Women (affiliated to Bharathidasan University), Kumbakonam, Tanjore District. She got her M.Sc in 1997 from the Department of Physics, Seethalakshmi Ramaswami College, Trichy (affiliated to Bharathidasan university). She finished her M.Phil., in 2001 from the Seethalakshmi Ramaswami College, Trichy (affiliated to Bharathidasan university) and Ph.D in 2014 from Presidency College, Triplicane (affiliated to University of Madras) Chennai. Her research work is mainly focused on synthesis and characterization of new organic, inorganic and semi-organic compounds for nonlinear optical applications, Theoretical evaluation by DFT analysis also forms a part of her work. She has 24 years of teaching experience and 10 years of research experience in the field of Crystallography, Crystal Growth, Density Functional Theory, Spectroscopy and Materials Science. She has published more than 60 papers in refereed international journals and presented more than 60 papers in the various national or international conferences. As an appreciation of her commendable work, she has received Best Paper award from SathybamaUniversity and Pachiyappa’s College, Chennai. Presently, she is a recognized supervisor of Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences, Chennai. She has guided students in pursuing their Ph.Ds. She is a life member of Indian Association for Crystal Growth, Indian SpectroPhysics Association, and Indian Society for Technical Education. She is also an active reviewer for the many national and international reputed journals like Journal of Molecular Structure, Spectrochimica Acta, and Journal of Materials Science etc.

Professor Partha S Mallick, presently working as a Sr. Professor of Electronics Engineering. He served in the same university as the Dean of School of Electrical Engineering (2011-15). He worked as the Technical Head, IAAB Electronics, a Swedish Electronics Industry in Bangladesh (1992-96). Dr. Mallick led various research teams and developed "Online Lab ", "Monte Carlo Simulator ", "Nanostructured MIM Capacitor", "Low cost Electric Fencers" and published 126 research papers in reputed Journals and Conferences. Dr. Mallick received the prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship for his PhD Research work. He is a Sr. member of IEEE, past Chapter Chair and present Chapter Adviser of IEEE-EDS VIT of Region 10 Asia pacific. He authored different books and book chapters published by IET (UK), Springer (Singapore) and Scitech (India). Dr. Mallick organized three major International Conferences - in 2014 at VIT India (jointly with KTH, Sweden), in 2018 at University of Cambridge, UK and in 2019, at Indiana University-Purdue University (IUPUI), USA. Dr. Mallick is a reviewer of IET, IEEE Transactions, Bentham Science, Elsevier and journals of other reputed publishers. At present, he is finding new materials and technology for future nanoscale electronics, Integrated circuits engineering and sensor technology.

Dr. SOUMEN SHAW is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics, Dinabandhu Andrews College (University of Calcutta), Kolkata, India. His expertise is in the development of Non Fourier thermoelastic models in local and nonlocal regions and its applications in various fields in engineering and sciences. In this regard, he developed data-driven and physics-based simulation models to study uncertainty quantification in a wide variety of problems ranging from non-Gaussian heat impact in human skin to nonlocal elastic materials with finite strain. The developed models use theories of continuum mechanics at various lengths and timescales. Dr. Shaw has used computational techniques such as the Discrete Fourier-Laplace inversion, FFT, Finite Element Method (structures) and improved Regulation Falsi Method to build research tools that leverage high-performance computing.

Prof. Pankaj Dixit is a well-known academician and a researcher in the field of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmacology. He is an alumnus in the department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, R.T.M. Nagpur University, Nagpur (MH). His research interests include pharmacokinetics, diabetes and behavioural pharmacology. He has 40+ research publications in journals of international repute and h-index of 16. He has two Indian patents to his credit and he has written one book chapter. He is a reviewer of many reputed pharmacology journals and is a life member of numerous Indian bodies.

Vijay M Khedkar is a highly optimistic and proactive computational medicinal chemist with Ph.D. degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry (Computational Medicinal Chemistry). Dr. Vijay has a successful track record of executing lead identification and optimization projects by applying molecular modeling techniques.

Raghuvir Pissurlenkar PhD (Tech) MRSC is an Associate Professor at Goa College of Pharmacy, Goa, India, since 2014. He has over 16 years of teaching and research experience in Organic Medicinal Chemistry and Biostatistics. Dr. Pissurlenkar has expertise in quantum chemistry, structure-based and ligand-based drug design approaches, and methods involved in the estimation of free energies of binding and solvation using techniques like molecular simulations. Dr. Pissurlenkar has graduated from Goa College of Pharmacy / Goa University (2002) and completed Masters (2004) and PhD (2010) from Bombay College of Pharmacy / Mumbai University. Dr. Pissurlenkar has 43 research papers to his credit published in peer-reviewed international journals. His research work has crossed 800 citations. He has been an invited speaker at interactional conferences, Beijing, China in 2015 and Madrid, Spain in 2019. Both his talks were supported by Travel Grants Schemes from University Grant Commission, New Delhi. He has been a member of the prestigious Royal Society of Chemistry since 2017.

Prof. (Dr.) Neeraj Verma is working as Dean Academics at Goel Institute of Pharmacy & Sciences, Faizabad Road, Lucknow. She did his Doctorate from Siksha O Anusandhan University Bhubaneswar, Odisha, (2014) M.Pharm from Bundelkhand University, Jhansi, UP (2006), B. Pharm from Uttar Pradesh Technical University, Lucknow, UP (2004) and D. Pharma from Govt. Polytechnic Lakhimpur-Khiri, UP (1999). She has more than 17 years of Professional experience in teaching & research. She is an Associate member of The Sugar Technologists’ Association of India, Life member of APTI, India (UP/LM-172), Life member of IPA, India (UP/LUCK/LM/0064). She has Published 22 research Papers in indexed journals with h index: 9, i10 index: 9, authored 2 books and has two filed patents and one granted patent. She has made scientific deliberations in many national and international conferences and has given several invited lectures. She has supervised 12 students who later received the PG degree. She is editorial board member of Acta Scientific Medical Sciences, Journal of Drug Discovery & Development, Indian Journal of Pharmacy & Pharmacology. She has received a number of awards, such as Certificate of Appreciation from EET CRS Research wing for Excellence in Professional Education & Industry in 5th Science & Technology Award -17, ‘Best Educationist award’ for outstanding contribution in Pharmacy Profession at Dehradun by Loqman National and international award, ‘Rising Star award’ for outstanding contribution in Pharmacy Profession at Delhi by Nirali Prakashan, ‘Best Principal of the year Award -2020’ etc. She is the Founder of OMA Welfare Trust and works as a social activist for society.

Mariadoss Arokia Vijaya Anand is a Research Professor in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Hallym University Dongtan Sacred Heart Hospital, Hallym University, Suwon, South Korea. Dr. Mariadoss AVA received his Ph.D. in Biotechnology from the Annamalai University, India. He received postdoctoral training at Thiruvalluvar University, Vellore, India, and Kangwon National University, South Korea. Before moving to Thiruvalluvar University in 2016, he served as an Assistant Professor at St.Joseph University in Tanzania, Republic of Tanzania. Dr. Mariadoss AVA’s research interests have focused on the biomedical applications (physical, chemical, biological, and psychological) of diverse nanoparticles, which includes free radical scavenging, cell stress research, improving the host defenses against pathogens, cancers, diabetes mellitus, and promotion of autoimmune diseases. His current research mainly focuses on the acceleration of wound healing in diabetic foot ulcers using advanced nanomaterials. Also, he served as an editorial board member and reviewer in several international journals.

Dr. Gund is currently working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics, Mahatma Phule Arts, Science and Commerce College, Panvel, M.S., India. After receiving Ph.D. from Shivaji University, Kolhapur (India) in 2014, he worked as a post-doctoral researcher at Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea (2014) and Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2), Barcelona, Spain (2015). Further, he joined as a KRF fellow at Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, South Korea (2016-2019) and worked as Research Professor (2019) in the same University on his own National Research Foundation Funded research project. His research area includes design and development of material and electrochemistry for smart and functional applications.

Dr. Akbar I Inamdar works as an Associate Professor in the Division of Physics and Semiconductor Science, Dongguk University, Seoul, Republic of Korea since 1st April 2009. His area of research is Electrochemistry, Electrocatalysis, Supercapacitors, Smart Supercapacitors, Lithium-Ion batteries (LIB) and solar cells. He has been awarded with the Dongguk University Gold Medal award for the successful career of 10 years in this university. He has published more than 100 research articles in prestigious international journals with an H-index of 37 and total citations of 3669. He attended several National and International conferences. He supervised two research students in their PhD degrees and several students in their master’s degree. He is well experienced in raising independent research funds from Korean funding agencies, such as Korean Research Foundation (KRF) and successful utilization for the desired cause.

Dr. Sanjay S. Latthe is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics, Raje Ramrao College Jath, (Affiliated to Shivaji University, Kolhapur), Maharashtra, India. His area of research is Superhydrophobic Surfaces for Self-cleaning, Oil-Water Separation and Anti-Icing Applications. He has completed Doctoral study in Shivaji University, Kolhapur (2007-10) and Postdoctoral studies in Koc University, Turkey (2010-12), Korea University, South Korea (2012-13), and Tokyo University of Science, Japan (2013-15). He earned the prestigious award of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS),Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in 2013. He got the DST-INSPIRE Faculty Award in 2015. He participated as a Young Scientist in the 66th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting dedicated to Physics held in Lindau, Germany in 2016. He has also participated in the 2nd BRICS Young Scientists Conclave held at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China in 2017. He has published more than 60 research articles in prestigious international journals with an h-index of 41, i-10 index of 56 and total citations of 5108. He has completed minor and major research projects and 03 doctoral students are currently working under his guidance.

Dr. Mallika Pathak is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry, Miranda House, University of Delhi. She has a teaching experience of more than 17 years having taught chemistry at Miranda House, University of Delhi since 2004. She is a recipient of many awards like Most Promising Innovation in 2016 from University of Delhi; Teaching Excellence Award for Innovation in 2015 from University of Delhi; Best Innovative Idea in 2014 and Australian Leadership Award Fellow (ALAF) in 2013. Being a computational chemist by training she has many research papers in various peer reviewed international journals, authored two book chapters for Elsevier Publishing House and has filed a patent in 2017. She is passionate about promoting Active learning and working with students on Innovative projects and helping them build their career. Her research interests include Drug-molecular interactions, Nano-chemistry and its application to water purification etc. In addition to her academic and research engagements, she is very active in the extra-curricular life of college and has served as a member and faculty advisor of various committees and societies of college.

Dr. Dang Viet Quang is currently working at the Phenikaa University, Vietnam as a lecturer. His research interests have revolved around the syntheses of advanced nanomaterials including porous silica, titanium dioxide, titanium nitride, metallic nanoparticles, metal chalcogenide and their functionalized derivatives to apply in solving various challenging environmental and energy problems, such as CO2 capture and utilization, H2 recovery from H2S, water treatment, and solar energy harvesting. He has published more than 70 articles with >1800 citations and H-index 27 according to Google Scholar.

Dr. Rahul Shukla, working as Assistant Professor at Department of Pharmaceutics, NIPER Raebareli, India, did Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences from CSIR CDRI and J.N.U New Delhi, India, M Pharm from IIT BHU, Varanasi, India. He has the experience of as Research at Dr. Reddy's Laboratories, India and D.S Kothari Post-Doctoral Fellow at Panjab University, India. He has more than 85 publications in international peer reviewed high impact journals and Books to his credit. He has filed 7 Indian Patents and 1 Copyright. Recently, he has also published two books in Elsevier and Intech open as Editor. Currently, three Ph.Ds. and many M.S students are pursuing their research work under his guidance. His current research interests include targeted drug delivery systems, particle engineering, controlled delivery for neurodegenerative diseases, dendrimer mediated drug delivery, and bioavailability enhancements.

Dr. Tarwal is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics, Shivaji University, Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India. He did his post doctorate from Research Institute for Solar and Sustainable Energies (RISE), Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), South Korea. His area of research is Solar cells, Supercapacitors, Electrochromism, Gas sensors, and Nanomaterials. He has published more than 67 research articles in prestigious international journals with h-index of 27, i-10 index of 49 and total citations of 1871. He attended several national and international conferences. He is supervising four research students for their PhD degrees and several students for their master’s degree.

Dr. Devesh Tewari is a researcher in the field of Natural product drug discovery, Pharmacognosy, and Ayurvedic pharmacognosy with main focus in exploration of medicinal plants of the Himalayan region through ethnopharmacology and reverse pharmacology approach. Dr. Tewari has significant research achievements in the field of pharmacological validation and phytochemistry of western Himalayan plants. Dr. Tewari served as Visiting Scientist to the Institute of Genetics and Animal Biotechnology of the prestigious Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland, and received important accolades for plant drug research from various government and non-government organizations. Dr. Tewari has an h-index 28 and citations more than 2460. He is among the “World Ranking of Top 2% Scientists” by Stanford University; Elsevier.

Dr. Thrimurtulu Neetipalli completed his Bachelor Sciences (B.Sc) and Master Sciences (M.Sc) from Andhra University, India. He then obtained a CSIR-JRF fellowship for Ph.D and joined CSIR-IICT, Hyderabad, India. Subsequently, Dr. Thrimurtulu gained research experience from different universities. Before joining Harvard University, Thrimurtulu worked in 11T-Bombay as the Principal Investigator under the DST-Young Scientist Scheme in the Department of Science and Technology. In 2017, he joined Prof. Andrew G Myers group at Harvard University, USA, as a postdoctoral fellow. He is currently working in Adesis, a pharmaceutical company in the USA as a Senior Research Scientist (Chemist). His research interest is in synthesis of biologically active molecules for human medicine development and OLED materials for devices.

Dr. Meghshyam K. Patil is presently working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Sub-Campus Osmanabad. His research interest is photo-catalysts, heterogeneous catalysts, and organic transformations. He has published thirty-four research papers in well-reputed international journals.

Prasenjit Mal obtained his MSc degree from Indian Institute of technology Kharagpur, followed by PhD from the Indian Institute of technology Kanpur in 2005. Then he undertook postdoctoral studies from the University of Siegen in Germany as Alexander von Humboldt Fellow (2006-2007) and from the University of Cambridge in the UK as Marie Curie Fellow (2008-2009). In December 2009, he started an independent research career at NISER Bhubaneswar. His research is focused on photochemistry and supramolecular catalysis in organic chemistry.

Prof. Dr. G. Bez obtained a doctorate in Chemistry from CSIR North-East Institute of Science and Technology (formerly, RRL), Jorhat. Currently, he is a Professor of Chemistry at North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, India. He works in the area of asymmetric catalysis, heterocyclic chemistry and medicinal chemistry. He has authored around 70 scientific research publications and has also delivered more than 30 invited lectures at various national and international conferences.

Prof. Benjaram Mahipal Reddy did his PhD (1986) at CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad, where he held a Chief Scientist and Head of Inorganic & Physical Chemistry Division position. He has been a visiting scientist or an award fellow at various institutes and universities in the USA, Russia, Germany, France, Australia, Japan, South Korea, and Switzerland. So far, he has guided 40 PhD theses and a good number of bachelor and master students for their degrees. He has more than 300 research publications (h-index 69) in high impact journals and holds 8 patents to his credit. He is an elected fellow of the National Academy of Sciences India, Indian National Academy of Engineering, and Royal Society of Chemistry. He has been serving as an editorial board member or a guest editor for a good number of high impact journals.

Dr. Susanta K. Nayak is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry, Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT), Nagpur, India. He obtained his PhD degree from Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore (2010). He went to Centre for Nano Science and Technology @ Polimi, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) & NFMLab-DCMIC "Giulio Natta" Politecnico di Milano, Italy to pursue his postdoctoral study. He was awarded with Marie Curie Research Fellow (IIF) to work at the Université de Rennes 1, France (2012-2014). His research group at VNIT mainly emphasizes on organic based molecules utilizing Crystal Engineering, Supramolecular chemistry, Liquid crystals for biological activity study as well as material application along with the establishment of Structure-Property relationship through experimental and computational analysis.

Afroz Alam has been involved in teaching and research since the year 2000 in various areas of Plant Science, especially, Bryology and stress plant physiology. He has completed his Ph.D. in Botany from the University of Lucknow, U.P. (India) in 2006, and qualified for the National Eligibility Test in 2004. Since 2010, he has been working as Associate Professor in the Department of Bioscience & Biotechnology, Banasthali Vidyapith (India). He has extensive publications in reputed journals to his credit. He has authored 12 books and guided 10 students for their doctoral degree. He is an active member of various botanical associations and Fellow of CMS (India).

Dr. Kanika Khanna has been involved in research and teaching since 2015 in different areas of Plant Sciences, specifically Plant Stress Physiology, Plant-Microbe Interactions, Plant-Nematode Interactions, Abiotic/Biotic stresses, Heavy metal toxicity and Plant Growth and Development. She completed her Ph.D in Life Sciences (Botany), from Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, India in 2019 and qualified for ICAR-NET-2016 and GATE-2017. She is currently working in D.A.V University, Jalandhar, in the Department of Microbiology. She has extensive publications in reputed journals and authored nearly 40 book chapters and 27 research articles and reviews and many are under the process of publication. She has also been awarded many prestigious awards, Young Scholar Award (2019), Excellence Award (2020), Best Women Young Scientist Award (2021) and Appreciation Awards by M.P of Canada (2019). She has also presented her research work in many International and National Conferences and won Best Presenter Awards. Her Google Scholar Citations are 870 with an h-index of 15 and i-10 index 18. She has been reviewer and editorial member in many well-reputed journals of Elsevier, Springer, Willey, Frontiers and Taylor and Francis group.

Dr. Ashwani Kumar is a Plant Physiologist and working on various aspects of Crop Improvement for salt affected areas. He is a PhD student in Moroney Lab, Dept. Of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University. He made significant contributions for studying the physiological and biochemical mechanisms of different crop plants in varying environments of salinity or drought. The identified salt tolerance mechanism of halophytes is a milestone in identification of their survival and tolerance mechanism along with phytoremediation property. In addition, he has been associated in the research crops namely, rice, wheat, chickpea, garden pea, okra, tomato, Ber, Beal, Peach, Guava, Sapota etc for their response under abiotic stresses and their output is being utilized for breeding of climate smart crop varieties and fruit trees. He has Google Scholar Citation of 545 with an h-index of 12. Dr. Ashwani has more than 35 peer-reviewed research papers, 10 book chapters, 15 popular articles, 4 technical bulletins and 9 training manuals, success stories etc along with his teaching experience of more than 8 years.

Dr. Meena is working as Senior Scientist at ICAR-Directorate of Rapeseed-Mustard Research, Bharatpur (Rajasthan), India. He has more than 12 years of research experience and published more than 30 research articles in well reputed National and International peer reviewed journals apart from other publications like books, book chapters, popular and technical articles etc. He has been awarded the Young Scientist Award and Scientist of the Year Award, holding post of Associate Editor and Editorial Board Member of many International journals, acting as reviewer for highly reputed National and International journals. His major fields of research work are crop management (specialized in weed management), nutrient management, soil water pollution, wastewater reuse, heavy metal remediation etc.

Dr Prashant Kumar Singh central research area focuses on plant and cyanobacterial stress and developmental biology covering the omics approach for decoding and targeting the signalling, regulatory and metabolic networks (including epigenetic modifications). He has published ~75 articles and four books. Dr Singh also has exposure to various national and international institutes. Dr Singh has also been awarded the Young Scientist Award, UGC, New Delhi Start-up research grant, ICMR-Seed grant, a lifetime member of various scientific societies, and a reviewer of multiple peer-reviewed journals.

Dr. NS Chauhan has published a number of scientific papers on the characterization of the diverse microbiome for their native community structure, physiological functions, survival strategies, commensalism, and hostmicrobial interactions. He has established an association of the human microbiome with gastrointestinal disorders, respiratory illnesses, and ayurvedic host phenotype. Currently, he is serving on various academic and administrative portfolios and has been recognized for his outstanding teaching and research.

Dr Shikha Agrawal is Director, Centre for University Placement, Training & Corporate Affairs, Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya and Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University Institute of Technology, Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya, Bhopal (M P) India. She obtained B.E., M.Tech. and Ph.D in Computer Science & Engineering from Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya Bhopal. She completed her Summer Research Fellowship from IIT Delhi. She has more than Eighteen years of teaching experience. She guided more than 50 Post Graduates and 5 PhD scholars. Her area of interest is Artificial Intelligence, Soft Computing, Computational Intelligence and Particle Swarm Optimization. She has published more than 50 research papers in different SCI/SCIE/Scopus/UGC approved reputed international journals and 01 international & 03 national patents. She authored one book on “Advanced Database Management System” and 12 chapters with international publishers. She is heading research projects of more than 14 lakhs from various government organizations. She has received a number of awards. She had also participated in numerous (more than 40) conference presentations. She is also a member of various academic societies, such as Senior Member IEEE, Life Member Indian Society of Technical Education (ISTE), Life Member Indian Society of Institute of Researchers, Life Member Computer Society of India (CSI), IACSIT, ACM etc.

Dr Jhilik Bhattacharya is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology. Her research interests include image processing, enhancement & feature extraction in images, image visualization, computer vision, pattern recognition & image understanding, and deep learning techniques for image processing and scene understanding. She has more than 13 years of experience in designing and implementing predictive algorithms to solve complex problems in the areas of image processing, computer vision, neural computing and electric vehicles. She led more than 7 industry/government funded projects across India, Italy and Ireland and has published +50 articles in peer reviewed journals and conferences.

Dr. Nurcihan Ceryan is an Associate Professor in the Balıkesir Vocational School, Balıkesir University. His research interests include rock mechanics, engineering geology, slope stability and soft computing methods. He has published around 60 articles in reputed international journals (with SCI impact factors), and conferences. Dr. Ceryan also has edited 1 book with a reputed international publisher.

Dr. Rakesh Kumar Dutta is presently working as Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur, and Himachal Pradesh, India. He has completed his doctoral study from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and published 171 papers in various international and national journals of repute. His research interest includes environmental geotechnics, rock mechanics, application of soft computing techniques in civil engineering and ground improvement

Dr. Kuntal Ghosh is an Associate Professor at the Machine Intelligence Unit, Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), former In-charge at the Center for Soft Computing Research, an Associate Institute of ISI, and Head of the Theoretical and Applied Sciences Unit, ISI North-east Center. He did his PhD (Science) from Jadavpur University and Post-MSc diploma (Biophysical Sciences) from Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, MSc and BSc in Physics from Presidency College, Calcutta University and schooling at South Point School, Kolkata. His research interests are in Cognitive Science, Cybernetics, Neuroscience, Biophysics, Data Science, Signal & Image Processing, Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence, and the history and philosophy of science. He has more than 90 publications in peer-reviewed journals, edited books, and conference proceedings.

Dr Sanjiban Sekhar Roy is an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology. His research interests include deep learning and advanced machine learning. He has published around 51 articles in reputed international journals (with SCI impact factors), conferences and editorial board members to a handful of international journals and reviewer to many highly reputed journals. Dr. Roy also has edited around 7 books with reputed international publishers. Besides, the Ministry of National Education, Romania & "Aurel Vlaicu" University, Romania has awarded Dr. Roy with "Diploma of Excellence" for the scientific research activity in 2019.

M.S.P. Subathra received the B.E. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, the M.E. degree in Power Systems from Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai Kamaraj University, India, in 1995 and 1997, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in Karunya University, India in 2015. She is currently working as a Professor in the Department of Robotics Engineering, Karunya University. She has publications in reputed international journals and in a number of conference proceedings. She has more than 25 years of experience in implementing predictive algorithms to solve problems in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, Signal, and image processing. Optimization techniques, Machine learning, and deep learning are applied to biomedical signal processing, Power Systems, and Renewable Energy. She has published more than 52 research papers in different SCI/SCIE/Scopus international journals and 02 National Patents. She also received funded projects worth more than 50 lakhs from DST and ICMR. She is also a member of various academic societies, such as Life Member Indian Society of Technical Education (ISTE), and the International Association of Engineers (IAENG).

Karan Veer has done his B.Tech and M.Tech in Instrumentation and Control Engineering from Kurukshetra University, Haryana, India in the year of 2005 and 2008, respectively. He received PhD in Electrical and Instrumentation Engineering from Thapar University, Patiala (India) in the year of 2015. He was a recipient of a Postdoctoral Fellowship (Dr. D S Kothari Postdoctoral Fellowship) instituted by University Grants Commission (UGC) of Govt. of India in the year of 2016 and carried out his research work at Panjab University, Chandigarh; and recipient of Research Associateship (RA) instituted by ICMR of Govt. of India in 2018. At present, he is working as Assistant Professor in the Instrumentation and Control Engineering Department at Dr. B.R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology (NIT), Jalandhar, India. His current areas of research include Biomedical Instrumentation, signal processing, statistical applications, prosthetic devices and soft computing.

P.M. Durai Raj Vincent, received his B.E. and M.E. from Anna University, Chennai, India. He also received his Ph.D., from VIT University Vellore in 2015. He is presently working as an Associate Professor in the School of Information Technology and Engineering at Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), India. He has more than 15 years of teaching and research experience and 7 years post Ph.D. He has more than 85 publications in the peer-reviewed Scopus indexed journals and among that 36 publications are SCI indexed with impact factor. His average impact factor per publication is 3.08. His current h-index in Scopus database is 12. He has published 5 Indian patents. He is currently guiding five research scholars in the field of Machine Learning and Deep Learning and three Ph.D scholars already completed under his guidance.

Dr. Manoj Kumar Deka, completed his Ph.D. from IASST Guwahati in 2013 in the field of complex plasma physics. Then he was awarded the DST-Young Scientist in the year 2016, from the Dept. of Science and Technology, Government of India, for the research project entitled “Nonlinear Waves and Instabilities in Relativistically Degenerate Dense Plasmas” which was successfully submitted to the SERB under DST. After that he was awarded the Prestigious and Vying Scientists’ Pool scheme in the year 2021, by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Government of India, for the research project entitled “Spin Induced Acoustic Solitary/Shock Waves In Multicomponent Quantum Magneto Plasma: Perspective of Application In Communication Technology”. Currently, he is working in the Dept. of Applied Sciences, Gauhati University.

Uday Narayan Ghosh is a research scholar of Mathematics at the Visva Bharati University. He is a passionate and dedicated research worker in the field of Nonlinear dynamics, Plasma Physics and Mathematics as well as a confident educator with 10 years of teaching experience. He is a creative thinker and a keen problem solver with analytical nature. His expertise has been reflected in many of his works. As a single author, he has published in renowned journals with 575 citations, H-index 12 and i10 index 15. He has the capability to guide others and work in a team.

Dr. Budheswar Dehury holds a Master Degree in Bioinformatics with a Ph. D. in Bioinformatics from Assam University Silchar (2016). Currently, he is working as a DHR-Young Scientist at ICMR-Regional Medical Research Centre, Bhubaneswar in a project to develop novel inhibitors targeting proteases of SARS-CoV-2, which is supported by the Department of Health Research, Ministry Health & Family Welfare Govt. of India. He has more than 6 years’ of research and teaching experience in the frontier areas of Computational Biophysics, Transcriptomics, Metagenomics, and Molecular Mechanics.

Dr. Sen has done his masters from Utkal University, Bhubaneswar and then Ph.D. from AMU, Aligarh in 2009. He has published 35 research articles in peer-reviewed journals reputed across the globe, and has an Indian patent registered. He is a life member of Society for Biological Chemists, India. Currently, he is working on a process engineering of the expression of recombinant anti-TNFα scFv, and development of a microfluidic system for amyloid detection in clinical and other biological samples. He is currently working at Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore.

Dr. Sivakamavalli Jeyachandran, holds a Ph.D in Animal Health and Management from Alagappa University, Karaikudi, Tamilnadu. She is currently assistant professor in the Department of Biotechnology and Microbiology, National College, Tiruchirapalli. She worked as a project fellow and senior research fellow in the Department of Science and Technology and Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, India. She worked as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Bioscience & Bioengineering, National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Taiwan. She was an N-Post Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Science & Technology (DST-SERB), New Delhi, India. She also worked as an Adhoc Faculty in the Department of Biotechnology, National Institute of Technology, Calicut, India. Before moving to the current position, she also worked as Research Scientist at Chonnam National University, South Korea. Currently, she is also an associated scientist at the National Research Center for Banana (NRCB), Tiruchirappalli. She has been awarded with INSA Visiting Scientist award (June 2021) and Banana Hackathon award (Aug 2021). She has authored or co-authored over 50 articles and 18 book chapters in peer review journals. Her current research contributions are in the field of Biochemistry, Nanocomposites, Structural Chemistry, Antibiotic Resistance & Human Microbiome. Dr. Sivakamavalli Jeyachandran is also a member of World Aquaculture Society (WAS), Biotech research Society India (BRSI) – Life Member, Fisheries organization (Life Member) and Tamil National Science Congress.

Dr. S. Srinivasan completed Doctor of Philosophy in Biochemistry from Annamalai University. He is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Faculty of Science, Annamalai University. He has 22 years of teaching experience and 16 years of research experience. He has published more than 24 papers in reputed journals and 5 book chapters, and serves as a reviewer and editorial board member of several reputed journals. His research citations are 883, h-index is 14 and i10-index is 17. He is an active member of about 4 medical societies and received research grants from the Govt. of India Research fund. He has organized and coordinated many educational seminars, scientific symposia and workshops and attended national and international conferences. Dr. S. Srinivasan received the Young Investigator Award in Science and Engineering Research Board from the Govt. of India. Currently, he is committed to exploring the naturally occurring phytochemicals for intervention (treatment) of diabetes mellitus and related complications in animal models.

Dr. Vivek, H.K, obtained his Master’s degree in Biochemistry from the University of Mysore. Later, he joined Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysuru, where he worked on the purification and isolation of taste peptides, and its taste peptide sequence. After completing the project, he joined for Ph.D in Applied Science (Biotechnology) from Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum. During his doctoral studies, he was awarded CSIR-Senior Research Fellow, and Ph.D Student Assistantship from TEQIP (Govt. of India). In the year 2016, he was awarded a Ph.D degree and joined M/s. Syngene International (ranked as one of the top 25 fastest growing companies in India and 4th rank in Asia) as Senior research associate at the Discovery Chemistry-Analytical Research and Development division. He specialized in Venom Biology, Analytical Biochemistry, Medical Chemistry, Enzyme Technology, and Computational Biology. He has published 58 research papers (h-15 as on Dec 2021) and guided more than 30 Master students for their dissertation and 1 Ph.D. He is also working on academic-industry collaboration and consultancy with Nutraceutical Companies. He is also a regular reviewer for several international journals. Besides, Dr. Vivek is nominated as Associate Editorial Board member for Venom and Toxins, and Guest editor for Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry.

Amit Kumar Yadav is a Computational Biologist working as Senior Research Scientist at the Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Govt. of India. His major research focus is to understand the posttranslational modifications (PTM) and their crosstalk in regulating disease progression in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and cardiovascular disease (CVD). He develops computational and statistical tools for quantitative proteomics, multiplexing and PTM identification, proteogenomics and metabolome-proteome integration. He has received- Innovative Young Biotechnologist Award, 2013 from DBT, Innovators under 35 (TR35) from MIT-Tech Review in 2013, and several grants for his research.

Dr. Abhiroop Chowdhury completed his PhD from the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Dhanbad. His research areas are Environmental Geochemistry, Mangrove restoration, Soil pollution and Ecological Risk Assessment. During 2016 and 2021, he has published around 20 articles in Web of Science/ Scopus indexed journals. His h index is 12, i 10 is index- 12, and citations are 427. Dr. Abhiroop also has vast field experiences as an environmental researcher at Kutch biosphere reserve, Buxa Tiger Reserve, Jharia coal fields, Sukinda chromite mines and Subarnarekha- Damodar watershed. He is also actively involved in promoting multi-disciplinary environmental education in India. He regularly writes on environmental issues at popular news dailies- The Statesman and Deccan Herald, with over 30 published opinion pieces till July 2021.

Gaurav Dwivedi has completed his B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from IKGPTU Jalandhar, M.Tech in Energy Systems from IIT Roorkee and PhD in the field of Renewable Energy (Biofuel) from IIT Roorkee, India. Currently, he is working as Assistant Professor in the Energy Centre at MANIT, Bhopal India. His area of interest is Biodiesel Production methodology, enhancement in fuel properties and application of biofuel on engine operation. He has published more than 100 papers in various international journals and conferences. He got more than 50 papers in SCI and Scopus Indexed Journal. He has published one book with International Publisher along with that he has contributed five book chapters. He got the Young Scientist award at NIT Trichy for his contribution in the field of Renewable energy. He also served as Guest Editor for Material Today proceedings and Journal of Traffic and Transportation. Recently, he also featured in “Top 2% scientist of the world from India (all fields)” by a survey conducted by Stanford University.

Irfan Ahmad Bhat has done Masters’s and Ph.D. in Fish Genetics and breeding from ICAR- CIFE. He has contributed to almost 40 research papers published in high-quality journals as well as several articles and book chapters. His main area of research is molecular endocrinology in fishes, genotoxicity, and nanotoxicology. Dr. Bhat received the Young Scientist award by Alltech, USA for his outstanding work in the Ph.D. program and the best Ph.D. thesis award by ICAR-CIFE, Mumbai, India. Dr. Irfan Bhat worked as an Assistant Professor in Fish Breeding and Genetics, College of Fisheries Sciences, Gumla, Jharkhand, India for three years. He was awarded a fellowship for postdoctoral research by the Turkish Scientific and Technological Research Council (TÜBITAK) under European Commission Horizon 2020 Marie Sk³odowska-Curie Actions Cofund program Co-Funded Brain Circulation2 Scheme (CoCirculation2). He is currently working as a research scientist at the University of Iceland in the school of biology, Institute of Life and Environmental Sciences.

Dr. Debkumar Chakraborty received his Ph.D. in Biotechnology from Punjabi University in 2015 and then went to Hong Kong Baptist University for postdoctoral study on solid waste management (2015-2016). He has also served as a Research Assistant at BITS Pilani's Hyderabad campus, as well as an Assistant Professor at Jain University in Bangalore and Chandigarh University in Punjab. From June 2017-August 2019, he had been working as SERB-NPDF at CSIR-IICT. At present, he is working as CSIR-SRA in pool scientist scheme in School of Environmental Science and Engineering, IIT Kharagpur, India. He has more than 6 years of experience in teaching and research. His primary research interests are Applied Microbiology and Solid Waste Management, with a particular emphasis on the production of Bioenergy and chemicals within the context of an integrated Sludge, Food waste, and other solid waste system. Dr. Debkumar has published 28 research articles and three book chapters.

Dr. Vivek Dhar Dwivedi is a Scientist/Group Leader at Centre for Bioinformatics, Computational and Systems Biology, Pathfinder Research and Training Foundation, Greater Noida, India. His specializations are in antiviral drug discovery, Bioinformatics database and software development. Currently, he is working to provide Bioinformatics-based solutions for managing Viral Infections. He has published more than 50 research papers in peer-reviewed international journals and attended several international and national conferences. He has 35 accessions in NCBI, GenBank to his credit. Previously, Dr. Dwivedi has also worked as an Assistant Professor in Uttaranchal College of Science & Technology, Dehradun, where, apart from teaching, he has also supervised dissertations of graduate and postgraduate students. He is also a member of The World Society for Virology and editorial board member of Scientific reports journal of Nature publishing group.

Dr. Anupam Nath Jha has been working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Tezpur University, Assam from more than ten years. He has done his PhD in Computational Biophysics from Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. He has obtained his Bachelors and Master’s degree in Physics from Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi. The specific areas of research are Computational Biophysics, Structural Bioinformatics, Systems Biology, Genome informatics and drug discovery. A number of research publications, book chapters and scientific research projects are to his credit. Three students have received their doctoral degree under his guidance.

Govindan Krishnan did Ph.D. in Veterinary Physiology in 2013 from Tanuvas, Chennai. He is a member of a number of societies such as Society for Animal Physiologist of India, Animal Physiologists Association, etc. He is reviewer for Scientific Reports Frontiers Environmental Science, Journal of Agricultural Science, Current Science, Comparative etc. He received a number of awards such as The Indian Council of Agricultural Research, Junior Research Fellowship on the basis of All India entrance for Pursuing M.V.Sc Programme at Indian Veterinary Research Institute, India. Krishnan, G., has been ranked on the 6th position in the top 10 highly productive authors of Animal Division in ICAR during April 2009-March 2010. He also received the Seven Best Paper Presentation Awards for the best papers presented in various national and international conferences. He has expertise in Heat Stress Disorders. Dr. Krishnan has around 231 publications, 27 book chapters and 36 conference papers and 8 technical manuals. His H-index is 16 (27/02/2022 – Google Scholar), his i10-Index is 22 (27/04/2022 – Google Scholar) and his total citations are 1223 (27/04/2022 – Google Scholar). He supervised 5 post graduate students.

Dr. Rajadurai Murugan completed M.Sc., M. Phil., Ph.D., in Biochemistry from the Annamalai University, Chidambaram, Tamilnadu, India. Presently, he is working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Food Technology, Faculty of Life & Allied Health Sciences, Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences, Bangalore, Karnataka, India. He has published 46 Research papers in peer reviewed national and international journals, and 3 book chapters. He has more than 15 years of teaching experience, guided 3 Ph.D., and 18 M.Phil., research scholars, participated, presented and delivered guest lectures in more than 50 national and international conferences. He is a Visiting Faculty in Biocon Academy, Biocon Limited, Bangalore, BOS member in Bangalore Central University. He is serving as a reviewer, editorial board member and lead guest editor in several international journals.

Dr. Dhasarathan Chandramohan is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala, Punjab, India. His area of interest includes Distributed Web Service, Web Service (Evaluation) Testbed, Software Metrics, GVANET Cloud Computing, Opportunistic Computing, Evolutionary Computing, Service Computing, Software Engineering, Multi-Agent, Privacy and Security. Currently, he is working on Designing of Testbed for Distributed web service environment, a Privacy Preserving Generic Framework for Cloud Data Storage, Optimization approach for minimizing agro-crops. He has more than 14 years of research, academic and industrial experience added to his credentials.

Dr. Binod Kumar Pattanayak completed his Master of Science in Engineering with specialization “Computer Engineering” in the year 1992 from Kharkov Polytechnical Institute, Kharkov, USSR. He was awarded with a Ph. D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Siksha "O" Anusandhan University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India in the year 2011. Currently, Dr. Pattanayak is working as a full time professor in the department of Computer Science and Engineering, Institute of Technical Education and Research (ITER) under Siksha “O” Anusandhan Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. 10 research scholars have been awarded with Ph. D. degree under his supervision and 9 are still continuing their Ph. D. dissertation work under his supervision. There are 140 research publications to his credit published in journals as well as conferences of international repute. His expertise includes computer networks, Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing and Big Data Analytics. He has acted as General Chair in International Conference on Advanced Computing and Intelligent Engineering (ICACIE 2020), Program Chair in International Conference on Intelligent System Design and Intelligent Applications (INDIA 2018). Dr. Pattanayak visited Build Bright University, Phnompenh, Cambodia as a visiting faculty from December 2005 till February 2006. He also visited Universite des Mascareignes, Mauritius as a visiting Professor in 2017, 2018 and 2019. He also belongs to the editorial boards of various reputed international journals.

Dr. Aditya Kumar Sahu is currently working as Associate Professor in the Dept. of CSE, Vignan University, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh. He completed his Ph.D. in data hiding and image steganography. At present, he is working on image watermarking, tamper detection and correction, self-recovery, reversible watermarking, data hiding and image authentication using deep neural network, steganalysis.

Dr Sanjiban Sekhar Roy is an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology. His research interests include deep learning and advanced machine learning. He has published around 51 articles in reputed international journals (with SCI impact factors), conferences and editorial board members to a handful of international journals and reviewer to many highly reputed journals. Dr. Roy also has edited around 7 books with reputed international publishers. Besides, the Ministry of National Education, Romania & "Aurel Vlaicu" University, Romania has awarded Dr. Roy with "Diploma of Excellence" for the scientific research activity in 2019.

Dr. Mohammad Shabaz completed his B.Tech in Information Technology and Telecommunication Engineering from the Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University, J&K, M.E and Ph.D in Computer Science Engineering from Chandigarh University, Mohali. He is working as Assistant Professor at Model Institute of Engineering and Technology, Jammu, India. He is currently holding the positions of Managing Editor of the Journal of Engineering, Science and Mathematics (JESM), Managing Guest Editor of Informatics in Medicine Unlocked (Elsevier) and Editor of Neuroscience Informatics (Elsevier). His area of interest is application of computer science in interdisciplinary domains. He has published over 100+ research papers in various journals indexed in Scopus/Web of Science, 4 Indian Patents and 3 Australian Patents. His major work is in the healthcare domain. His major contributions include the creation of novel algorithms like SA Sorting, Shabaz-Urvashi Link Prediction.

V. B. Singh is currently working as Professor in the School of Computer and System Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He received his M.C.A. degree from M. M. M. Engineering College, Gorakhpur, U.P., India and Ph.D. degree in Software Reliability from the University of Delhi. He has published more than 80 research papers. His research interests include mining software repositories, empirical software engineering and software reliability engineering. He has co-authored a book “Essentials of Computer Network Database and Internet Technology” from NAROSA Publishing India. He has also received an award from Society for Reliability Engineering, Quality and Operations Management for contribution as a promising author and Researcher in the field of computer Science. He has completed research projects from University Grants Commission, Department of Science and Technology Government of India and University of Delhi. He is a member of Society for Reliability Engineering, Quality and Operations Management and Association of Computing Machinery (ACM).

Rajkumar Soundrapandiyan is currently working as an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Tamil Nadu, India. He received B.E. in Computer Science and Engineering from Anna University, Chennai, India in 2008, M.E. in Computer Science and Engineering from Anna University, Chennai, India in 2010. He completed Ph.D. at Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India in 2017. His research interests include computer vision, visual perception, object detection, medical image processing, infrared image processing, biometrics, information hiding, network security. He has published more than 60 research papers in reputed international conferences and journals. He is a Reviewer for many reputed journals like Computers in Biology and Medicine, IET Computer Vision, etc. He has organized many training programs. He is a life member of CSI and a senior member of IEEE.

Karan Veer did B.Tech and M.Tech in Instrumentation and Control Engineering from Kurukshetra University, Haryana, India in the year of 2005 and 2008, respectively. He received PhD in Electrical and Instrumentation Engineering from Thapar University, Patiala (India) in the year of 2015. He was a recipient of a Postdoctoral Fellowship (Dr. D S Kothari Postdoctoral Fellowship) instituted by University Grant Commission (UGC) of Govt. of India in the year of 2016 and carried out his research work at Panjab University, Chandigarh. He is a recipient of Research Associateship (RA) instituted by ICMR of Govt. of India in 2018. At present, he is working as Assistant Professor in Instrumentation and Control Engineering Department at Dr BR Ambedkar National Institute of Technology (NIT), Jalandhar, India. His current areas of research include Biomedical Instrumentation, signal processing, statistical applications, prosthetic devices and soft computing.

Dr. S. N. Shukla is working as Professor in the Department of Chemistry, Govt. Science College Jabalpur, M. P., INDIA. His main area of research is Coordination Chemistry. Other fields of interest are Spectroscopy, Biomimetic Chemistry, Metallopharmaceutical Chemistry, Nanoparticle Synthesis, Computational Chemistry and Catalysis. He has successfully completed many minor and major projects funded by UGC, New Delhi. He has reviewed several manuscripts of Taylor and Francis, and the Elsevier group in the related field.

Dr. Mohammad Nasir Uddin was awarded Ph. D. by Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He obtained M. Phil. and M. Sc. from University of Chittagong in the field of coordination chemistry. His research field includes coordination and analytical chemistry. More than 70 articles have been published in reputed journals. His research was recognized by the achievement of best research award 2009 of Bangladesh University Grants Commission and Bronze award by UNIMAS Intex17 Expo, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia. Dr. Nasir's teaching courses include coordination, organometallic environmental and analytical chemistry in undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate programs.

Dr. Saraboji received his Ph.D. in Crystallography and Biophysics from University of Madras, India, in 2006 and continued his postdoctoral research from Lund University, Sweden. Currently, he is working as Associate Professor in the School of Chemical and Biotechnology at SASTRA Deemed University, Thanjavur. Over a decade, he has been investigating protein structure, folding, and stability, using biophysics, structural biology, and bioinformatics approaches which have several biotechnological and therapeutic applications. His research is focusing on understanding the protein structure-function relationship, mechanisms associated with protein folding and misfolding, protein-ligand recondition and structure-based drug design. He has published several research articles, serving as a reviewer of many scientific journals and a life member of Indian Biophysical Society and Indian Crystallographic Association.

Dr. Saroja Kumar Barik completed his master degree from National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, Odisha, India in Environmental Chemistry. He has done his PhD in Environmental Geochemistry from Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. He has professional experience with over 17 years of rich research, management and industrial experiences on Environment issues. He is directly and indirectly Associated with national and international organization: World Bank, UNICEF, JICA, ICMAM-MOES, ICAR- CIFRI, CSIR- IMMT, SPCB-Dept. of Forest and Environment-Govt. of Odisha, Dept. of Drinking water and sanitation-Govt. of Jharkhand, DHI, Merck India limited and BARC-DAE. He has expertise in the area of water and sediment quality monitoring of lake, estuaries, port and rural drinking water supply scheme to the community with 22 number of strong research publications in peer review SCOPUS index journals. He is a reviewer of national and international journals and associated with Springer, Elsevier and Tylor and Francis. He presented his research papers at national and international (Japan) level.

Dr. Sovik Das completed doctoral research work in the field of environmental engineering from the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India. He got engaged in research work pertaining to bioelectrochemical systems like microbial electrosynthesis cell, microbial fuel cell and microbial electrolysis cell for the treatment of different waste streams with concomitant valuable recovery

Mr. Nadeem A Khan is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering since 01 Aug 2012. He also acted as Academic Coordinate of the Civil Engineering department from 2014 to 2017. He is currently serving as an Editorial board member of Nature journal- Scientific Reports (IF= 4.3), Springer journal special issue of Discover water and working for Hindawi Journal special issue (IF= 4.2). His recent accomplishments included 15 Coursera course completion certificates and were awarded as Best Young Scientist Award(Male) by LWT India and GECL for Scientific contribution in the field of Environmental Engineering. He got his M. TECH. (Civil Engineering) in 2011 with Honors in Environmental Engineering from Aligarh Muslim University. Mr. Khan was associated with the Ministry of Environment and Forest for two years as Junior Research Fellow (J.R.F) in 2009-11 and also worked with UNICEF as a Research Assistant (R.A) on the topic of GIS mapping and Water quality parameter estimation including monitoring of Agra Region for six months in 2012. He has professional experience in DLF-LAING'S ROURKE INDIA LTD in an SEZ Project at Gurgaon as Construction Engineer during 2008-09. He qualified for the GATE examinations in 2010. His area of activity in the industry was post contract works, reconciliation, planning, and budgeting. He has attended a number of conferences, workshops, seminars, research and engaged in research projects. He has published 50 papers in SCI. He has also published more than 10 PATENTS in the field of Civil Engineering and water treatment. He is Joint-Secretary of an Environmental Awareness Society ENVIRONSENSE which has organized more than 25 events.

Dr. Pankaj Kumar Tyagi’s research area is in green nanomaterial synthesis, their conjugations and he evaluated their toxicity as in vivo by using Drosophila species. He is working as professor in the Department of Biotechnology, Noida Institute of Engineering and Technology, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh India. He has published more than 65 research papers in refereed international and national journals and more than 15 research papers in various national and international conferences. He has nineteen years of teaching/research experience at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. During this period, he has supervised 4 Ph.D., 16 Master and more than 65 bachelor students, in Environmental Engineering, Nanobiotechnology, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and published his research work frequently in reputed journals and proceedings in both India and abroad. He also fetched two grants for research and three grants for organized workshops and conferences from funding agencies of DBT, UP-CST and LSFI in the field of nanobiotechnology and Drosophila biology.

Dr. ADEYEYE, Samuel Ayofemi Olalekan got Bachelor of Science degree in Food Science and Technology in 1992, Master of Science degree in Food Technology in 1997 from University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria. He did PhD in Food Processing and Storage Technology in 2017. He remained a Researcher at Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria between 2011–2017, and an International Researcher in the Department for Management of Science and Technology Development, Ton Duc Thang University. He is currently an Associate Professor of Food Technology at Hindustan Institute of Technology & Science, Hindustan University, Padur, Chennai, India.

Dr. Ankit Goyal is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Dairy Chemistry at Mansinhbhai Institute of Dairy and Food Technology, Mehsana, Gujarat, India. Dr. Goyal acquired Bachelor of Science (Biochemistry) from Kurukshetra University and Masters of Science in Food Science and Technology from Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar. He holds Doctorate in Dairy Chemistry from National Dairy Research Institute (ICAR-NDRI), Karnal. Dr. Goyal’s research interests include development and formulation of functional food and dairy products. He is dynamically involved in teaching and research. He is the author and co-author of more than 37 peer-reviewed journal articles, 08 book chapters, 10 technical articles, 1 text- and 1 edited book. Additionally, he is a member of different professional bodies’ viz. Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA), American Oil Chemist’s Society (AOCS), Indian Dairy Association (IDA) and Nutrition Society of India (NCI). His activities and accomplishments include conferences, seminars, workshops and training. He has also supervised 03 M.Tech students in the subject of Food Technology and Nutrition; and Dairy Chemistry.

Dr. Santosh Kumar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Food Engineering and Technology (FET) at the Central Institute of Technology Kokrajhar (CITK), India. Dr. Kumar has extensive research and academic experience of over 12 years in the area of Food Nanotechnology and Sustainable Food Packaging. Dr. Kumar earned his M. Tech. and Ph.D. in Food Technology & Biochemical Engineering (FTBE) from Jadavpur University, India. He also worked as a Post-doctoral Fellow (PDF) at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. He is a professional member of a number of Scientific Societies. He has published more than 25 peer-reviewed research and review papers. Currently, his research work is mainly focused on “turning agro-waste into environment-friendly bioplastic” for sustainable rural development, circular economy, and increasing income of farmers, growers and rural population.

Azhagu Saravana Babu is a quality-oriented professional with more than 13 years of experience in research, technology transfer, product development and academic responsibilities. He is a research supervisor in Vel Tech Deemed University & Anna University, Chennai. Besides, he is a reviewer in the Journal of Food Process Engineering (Wiley Publications). He has expertise in Laboratory set up and R&D Initiation. He received the Best Teacher Award for Research in 2009, at MVJCE, Bangalore. He has been Awarded the Senior Research Fellowship from CSIR & UGC- India from 2012 & 2014. Being a Coordinator, he received the Research Fund from various agencies such as he received the Conference Grant of Rs.5 Lakhs from AICTE (AQIS scheme) in 2018. He also received a grant of 2.56 Lakhs for conducting STTP from AICTE (AQIS) in 2019.

Dr. Santosh Pingale is a Scientist-C at Hydrological Investigations Division, National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee. Dr. Pingale also serves as Associate Editor, Hydrological Sciences Journal of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) and Joint Editor of the Indian Journal of Hydrology published by Indian Association of Hydrologists (IAH). He has more than nine years of experience in research & development, and capacity building related to water resources and hydrology. He has published numerous research papers in peer-reviewed international journals (33) and conferences (20). He is also serving as a reviewer for many reputed international journals. Besides, he is also guiding graduates in the field of water resources and hydrology. His research interest include water resources, climate change, hydrologic modelling and groundwater modelling. He has wide experience in application of statistical techniques in water resources assessment with respect to watersheds, sub-watersheds and river basin scales using SWAT, WetSpa and HBV hydrologic models. Also, he has expertise in soft computing techniques i.e. Fuzzy Logic & ANFIS, remote sensing and GIS. Before joining NIH, he served as Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Water Resources & Irrigation Engg., Water Technology Institute, Arba Minch University, Ethiopia over five years (2013 to 2018). Dr. Pingale did his Ph.D. in Water Resources Development and Management from IIT, Roorkee in 2013. In 2010, he was awarded a Canadian Commonwealth fellowship by the Canadian Government and worked as Visiting Research Fellow in the Dept. of Civil & Geological Engg., University of Saskatchewan, Canada. He was a recipient of some renowned Indian Fellowships like the fellowship awarded by the Ministry of Human Resources Department (MHRD) Government of India for PhD, fellowship of the Indian Council of Agriculture and Research, New Delhi for MTech.

Dr. B Soundharajan is an Associate Professor at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore and his expertise is in the analysis, planning and management of water resources systems to develop reservoir management and planning tools. He received his PhD in Water Resources Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras and did post-doctoral research at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. Dr Soundharajan also worked as a Scientist at International Water Management Institute (IWMI); and as Adjunct faculty at Washington State University, USA.

Dr. Thomas is a Senior Scientist working at the National Institute of Hydrology with more than 30 years of experience in the field of hydrology and water resources. His areas of interest include hydrological modeling, drought management, climate change impact assessments, reservoir operation and irrigation water management.

Dr. Mrigendra Dubey working as Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Indore in the area of synthesis of Soft Materials particularly Metallogels. He received M.Sc. degree in Chemistry (Inorganic Chemistry) from the University of Allahabad, Allahabad in year 2005 and Ph.D. degree in Chemistry (Coordination and Bioinorganic) with Prof. Manabendra Ray from Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati in the year 2011. After PhD, he joined Prof. S. S. Sun group at the Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica, Taiwan as post-doctoral fellow in 2011 followed by Prof. D. S. Pandey group in the Department of Chemistry, Banaras Hindu University as DS Kothari Post Doc Fellow in 2012. In May 2017, he joined IIT Indore as Assistant Professor in Discipline of Metallurgy Engineering and Materials Science and established a laboratory for synthesis of Soft Materials. He is the recipient of Young Scientist Award, International Academy of Physical Sciences, Allahabad, India- 2017. He has been invited as a research visitor at various institutes. He has published quality papers. Dr. Dubey is life-member of Society for Materials Chemistry, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, Soft Materials Research Society, Jaipur and International Academy of Physical Sciences, Allahabad.

Dr. Anil Ramdas Bari has completed his PhD from Kavayitri Bahinabai Chaudhari North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon. He is the Head of the Department of Physic, IQAC / NAAC Coordinator and NSS Programme Officer of Arts, Commerce and Science College, Bodwad. He has published 50 research papers in reputed journals and presented more than 80 research papers in seminars, conferences and workshops and over 100 on online mode. He attained more than 120 online webinars. He has been serving as an editorial board member of reputed journals. He has participated as an Organizing Committee Member in the Scientific Committee of various conferences and associations as well as served as a reviewer in a wide range of National and International Journals. His Scopus h-index is 12, Google Scholar h-index is 16 and Google Scholar i10- index is 21. He is an Academic Counsellor: Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi. He is the Member of Advisory Committee of National Service Scheme of Kavayitri Bahinabai Chaudhari North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon. He has been awarded with Platinum Medal and Leadership Certificate by Samabhand Foundation for noteworthy efforts in promoting the SPIT FREE INDIA MOVEMENT through NSS to prevent the spread of COVID19. Under his Leadership College is awarded One District One Green Champion Award by Mahatma Gandhi National Council of Rural Education, Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Education, Government of India.

Dr. Aman Bhardwaj is currently working as an Assistant Professor (Ad-hoc) Chemistry, Hindu College, University of Delhi, India. He is a visiting professor in National University of Science and Technology (NUST) MISiS, Moscow, Russia. He is also an Editorial Board Member of Current Materials Science. He obtained his PhD from CSIR-National Physical Laboratory (NPL), New Delhi, India. Dr. Bhardwaj has done Postdoctoral research with two most prestigious postdoctoral fellowships including DST-SERB-National Postdoctoral Fellow (NPDF) and UGC- Dr. D. S. Kothari Postdoctoral (Higher Fellowship) from School of Physical Sciences (SPS), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Delhi, India. He has over 27 research publications in SCI indexed journals along with two book chapters to his credit. He is a Fellow of Renewable Energy Society of India. His research focuses on synthesis of thermoelectric materials and devices, superconducting materials, carbon based nanomaterials for energy applications. He has received many national and international awards and contributed to more than 20 international and national conferences across the world.

Dr. Manisha Devi completed her M.Phil. from Himachal Pradesh University Shimla in 2010. She joined Indian Institute of Technology Mandi as a Ph.D. student and completed her Ph.D. in 2017. She received a prestigious National Postdoctoral Fellowship to continue research as a postdoctoral fellow at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali since 2017. Presently, she is working to design and develop biosensors based on fluorescent molecules and liquid crystal aqueous interfaces. She has published 19 articles in peer-reviewed journals. She has also published 1 book chapter. Her research work has been featured as a cover image in an international journal.

Dr. Sivasankar Koppala is an Associate Professor at Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences (SIMATS) India. He worked as a Principal investigator at Panjin Institute of Industrial Technology, Dalian University of Technology, China and Post-Doctoral Researcher at Kunming University of Science and Technology, China. He obtained PhD degree from VIT University, India. He also worked as a visiting researcher at Jacobs University Bremen, Germany. Presently, he holds 40 peer-reviewed research articles. He is experienced in Materials Science & Engineering, Environmental Science & Engineering, Nano Science & Technology for the past 10 years.

Dr. Krishna Kumar obtained his PhD degree in Organic Polymer Chemistry from the Banaras Hindu University of India. He is currently Assistant Professor in Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology. His research interests concern Material Chemistry; Polymer Chemistry; Microgel; Hydrogel; Polymer Enzymes Bioconjugates; Nanocomposites and degradation of hazardous materials in various environments. Prof. Kumar has published more than 50 journals & conference papers, currently writing 3 books & 11 book chapters in publication of national and international repute, and over 14 conference/FDP/Workshops presentations (including invited talk and speeches). His publications have been SCI-cited over 340 times with an h-index of 10 according to the ISI Web of Science.

Dr. Ravita Lamba is presently working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur. She completed her Ph.D and M.Tech. from Centre for Energy Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi under the supervision of Prof. S.C. Kaushik. She was a visiting researcher at the University of South Florida, FL, USA through BHAVAN internship provided by Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India and Indo US Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF) to work on radiative cooling systems for building space conditioning. Prior to MNIT, she worked as Assistant Professor in Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department at National Institute of Technology Delhi and as Project Engineer in Solar Water Pumping Division at National Institute of Solar Energy (NISE), Gurugram, an autonomous institute of Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Government of India. She is actively involved in the research fields including Solar Photovoltaic Systems, Solar Thermal Systems, Solar Thermoelectric Systems, and their various Hybrid Combinations for Power Generation and Space Conditioning, Modeling & Optimization of Energy Systems, Building Integrated Photovoltaic & Thermoelectric Systems and Radiative Cooling Systems. She has published more than 40 research papers in peer reviewed journals including 5 book chapters. She has presented her research work in international conferences and symposiums. She is the member of IEEE society and The Institution of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineers (IETE), The Institution of Engineers India (IEI) and life member of Soft Computing Research Society and Solar Energy Society of India (SESI) and Advisory Board Member of Renewable Energy Society of India (RESI). She is also the reviewer of peer reviewed journals in Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, Taylor & Francis, IET Inderscience, IOP Publishing and MDPI. She is also the member of editorial board in the Journal of Modern Mechanical Engineering and Technology, Zeal Press.

Dr. MURALI NANDIGAM, M.Sc, Ph.D Obtained Ph.D. from Department of Physics, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India. He is working as faculty at Andhra University College of Engineering (A), Andhra University, Visakhapatnam. He published many research articles around 62 in National and International journals. He also presented 30 research papers, attended 40 conferences, and 40 online Webinars. His research areas are Materials Science, Computational Physics and Condensed matter Physics. In addition, he is working as a reviewer and editorial board member of various journals.

Dr.P.Pardha Saradhi received UG, PG and Ph.D degrees from Acharya Nagarjuna University, A.P, India. He worked as lecturer in Hindu College, Machilipatnam from 2000-2012. He worked as Associate Professor in Sri Vasavi institute of engineering and technology, Nandamuru in 2012 to 2014. From 2014 till date, he is working as Professor, Electronics and Communication Engineering and Associate Dean R and D Publications, K.L. University, Vaddeswaram. He has published more than 93 articles (54 SCI + 39 Scopus) in international journals and conferences. He is a reviewer for several international journals including Elsevier and Taylor and Francis and served as Resource person, reviewer, session chair, co-chair and advisory committee member for a number of international conferences. He has to his credit four national patents and three International patents. Three Ph.Ds have been awarded under his guidance and 5 more are in the pipeline. His research interests include LC antennas, Image processing, LC nano composites and its applications. He received Excellence in research Award from Navodaya Research Academy, Puducherry in 2021 and Distinguished Scientist award from IJIEMR –Elsevier SSRN Research Awards-21. He is a life member of IACSIT, IAENG, UACEE and IIRJC.

Dr. Bhaskar Jyoti Sarmah obtained his B.Sc degree in chemistry from Dibrugarh University and M.Sc degree in Chemistry from the Gauhati University, Guwahti, Assam, India. He then pursued his doctoral studies with Dr. D. K. Dutta at the CSIR-North East Institute of Science and Technology, Jorhat, Assam, India. Dr. Sarmah embarked on his independent career as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry, Jorhat Institute of Science and Technology (JIST), Jorhat, Assam, India in August 2010. Dr. Sarmah is also a life member of Chemical Research Society of India and The Society for Polymer Science, India. His area of interest is in the field of organometallic chemistry, nanoscience and catalysis.

Dr. Akhil Saxena is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry, Chandigarh University Mohali. His area of research is -Natural products as corrosion inhibitors, Electrochemical analysis (Tafel & EIS), Surface analysis, Characterization techniques, Computational chemistry. He is an expert in Potentiostate/Galvanostate, SEM, AFM, XRD, Quantum chemical calculations, GC, HPLC and FTIR, UV.

Dr. N. Sivakumar has completed UG degree from Aringar Anna Govt. Arts College, Villupuram (Madras University) in the academic year 2004-2007. He received PG degree from Presidency College, University of Madras in 2009. He entered the field of crystal growth research in 2011 and has successfully completed Ph.D degree in 2015.He has 13 years of research experience and has published about 45 research papers in reputed Journals. He has presented his research outcome in many national and international conferences and attended many scientific events like seminars and workshops. His research publication reveals his expertise in growth of 2D single crystals. He has wide knowledge in growing crystals by many growth techniques like slow cooling, unidirectional growth and melt growth methods.At present, he is concentrating on developing materials for various applications including solar cells and laser devices. He has more than 10 years of experience in teaching as a Guest lecturer as well as Assistant Professor in Physics.He received the best thesis award in crystal growth by Indian Association for Crystal Growth in the year 2018, during the National Seminar on Crystal Growth held at Sacred Heart College, Tirupattur, Tamil Nadu. He has completed Postdoctoral Research work during the year 2017-2020 awarded by University Grants Commission (Dr. S. Kothari Postdoctoral Fellow), Government of India. Currently, he is working as an Assistant Professor of Physics, Sri Sai Ram Engineering College, Chennai.

Dr. Jagadeesh Sure received M.Sc in Materials Science from Andhra University in 2008. In 2014, he received a Ph.D. from Homi Bhabha National Institute (HBNI). After completion of his PhD, he moved to the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, UK to pursue a Postdoctoral Associate assignment (2014–2018) to work on high-entropy materials and alloys. He worked at University of Nizwa, Oman as a Researcher (2018–2019) for the preparation of nanocarides. Later he worked as a full time Research Associate (2019–2019) at Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York, USA to work on Ni-based materials for molten salt breeder reactors. He is presently working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics, School of Advanced Sciences, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, TN, India. He has worked in the field of Materials Science for the past one and half decade in the field of carbon materials, corrosion, coatings, nanomaterials and alloys for a wide range of applications. He has specialized in preparation of high-entropy alloys and titanium alloys for the structural and biomedical applications. He has authored and published more than 30 articles in peer reviewed international journals, five book chapters and various national important reports. He has received ‘Best PhD Thesis Award’ from NACE-NIGIS India in 2014 in the field of ‘Corrosion’. He has received various national and internal travel awards and three times best presentation awards. He is also meticulously performing his duties in teaching and guiding UG, PG and PhD students.

Dr. Samander Kaushik, completed his PhD in Virology (Microbiology) from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi, India, in 2010. Since then, he has been working as an assistant professor at Maharshi Dayanand University's Centre for Biotechnology in Rohtak, Haryana, India. His research group is developing rapid, sensitive, specific, and cost-effective diagnostic tests and treatment agents. He has twenty years of expertise in this field and has published more than forty papers in PubMed/Scopus-indexed/peer-reviewed journals, as well as three book chapters with an 820 citation index. He received financial support from a variety of sources for his lab's research efforts.

Dr. Sk. Hasane Ahammad received the B.Tech. Degree and the M.Tech Degree in electronics and communication engineering from JNTU Kakinada in 2011 and 2014, respectively. He has received a Doctor of Philosophy from KLEF Deemed to be University, Vaddeswaram, Guntur, AP. He works as Associate Dean R & D at Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation, Vaddeswaram, Guntur, India. He has published more than 68 papers in IEEE Journals, International Journals, and conferences in Bio-Medical Image processing, Machine learning, Deep Learning and Communications. He is a student Member of IEEE.

Dr. Raja Chakraborty, PhD, FICS, Associate Professor, Adamas University, India is associated with teaching and research for the last 14 years. He completed his PhD in 2014 in Pharmaceutical Sciences. A few 71 research and review articles with total IF 46.622(JCR 2020), 2 books, 3 edited books and 23 book chapters published with reputed publishers like Springer, Studium press, ACS publishers etc.,1 DBT funded mega-projects, 3 PhD guidance are evident for his research experience. He is associated with different scientific bodies as fellow member and life member and also charged with editorial board member, and reviewer of different journals.

Dr. Subhash Chander is currently working as Assistant Professor-II, at Amity Institute of Phytochemistry & Phytomedicine (AIP&P), Amity University, Noida. Dr. Chander completed Ph.D in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from Dept. of Pharmacy, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus and M.S. from National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER). He has more than 10 years of teaching and research experience in Academia and Industry. His expertise is in Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Designing. His research work mainly focuses upon the drug discovery against human pathogens involving HIV-1, Leishmania and bacterial as well as fungal strains including MTb. His team has discovered several nano molar potent hits against HIV-1, Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Leishmania. His team has published more than 42 publications in SCI/Scopus indexed journals, three book chapters and completed two industry-sponsored projects, while one project is in progress. He has filed four patents and transferred one technology to industry.

Dr. Lokesh Deb completed Diploma in Pharmacy (1999) under Drug Control Department, Government of Karnataka, India. Thereafter, he completed B. Pharma (2003) and M. Pharma (Pharmacology)(2005) from the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Bangalore, Karnataka. He obtained a Ph.D. (Pharmaceutical Science) from the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad. He joined Institute of Bioresources and Sustainable Development (IBSD), Imphal, Manipur (A national Institute of Department of Biotechnology, Government of India) as a Scientist. Presently, he is working as Scientist (Pharmacology) in IBSD-Regional Centre, Gangtok, Sikkim, India. He also worked as a visiting scientist at Cytokine-Research-Laboratory, Department of Experimental Therapeutic, MD Anderson Cancer Centre, Houston, Texas, USA.

Dr. Meenakshi Dhanawat, M.S. (Pharm) (NIPER-Mohali), Ph.D. (IIT-BHU, Varanasi) Currently working as Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, MM College of Pharmacy, MM (DU), Mullana. She has more than 13 years of teaching and research experience. She has attended several national and international conferences in India and abroad. She is the recipient of the travelship award in the DDD section of AAPS-2010, National Biotechnology Conference, California, USA. Apart from this she also received twice the international travel grant from DBT and DST, Govt of India. She has been awarded with many other fellowships and awards, she has 38 publications to her credit.

Dr. Sheshagiri Dixit is currently affiliated to the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, JSS College of Pharmacy, JSSAHER, Mysuru, Karnataka, INDIA. His research interests include, Molecular Modelling, QSAR, Molecular Dynamics, and Synthesis of heterocyclic compounds. Dr. Dixit has published in more than 50 reputed international and national journals.

Dr. Kajal Ghosal is serving as an academician for the last 14 years. Presently, she is working in the Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India as an assistant professor. She has done her graduation, post-graduation and PhD in the field of pharmaceutical technology from the same university. She has received a prestigious Kothari Postdoctoral fellowship in India for doing postdoc. She has carried out her postdoctoral research in the Central European Institute of Technology in Czech Republic. She has also visited University of Novi Sad, Serbia and University of Münster, Germany under European COST action. She has published one book on Electrospinning from Royal Society of Chemistry and another two books on polymer science which are in the final stage of publication from RSC and Elsevier. She has collaborated with many international scientists from the USA, Egypt, Quatar, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Australia and Poland. She has been awarded with the National Scholarship program of Slovakia for carrying short term research in Slovak Academy of Science and she has been selected for Poland-Ulam fellowship for carrying short term research in IPPT-PAN, Warsaw, Poland. She has published 29 research and review articles from peer-reviewed journals. Her research areas are Magnetite Nanoparticles, Electrospinning, Drug Delivery, Formulation Development, Microemulsion/Nanoemulsion, Solubility enhancement techniques, Nanotubes, Nanofibers, Transdermal drug delivery systems, and Nano-composites.

Dr. Vikas Jain is presently working as professor and Dean at Mahakal Institute of Pharmaceutical studies Ujjain. He has completed his B. Pharmacy from B. R. Nahata College of Pharmacy, Mandsaur (M.P.) in 2003, M. Pharmacy from B.N. Collage of Pharmacy, Udaipur (Rajasthan) in 2006 and Ph.D. from Shobhit University Meerut in 2010. He has published more than 40 research and review articles and 05 book chapters in international and national journals of repute. He has guided 01 Ph.D. and 15 M.pharm students. He also has attended and coordinated several Seminars, Workshop, Awareness Camps and Conferences. Dr. Jain has research skills on Novel Drug Delivery System, Colonic Drug Delivery System and Various Targeted Oriented Drug Delivery System.

Prakash Katakam is a Pharmaceutical Scientist working as Professor and Principal at Indira College of Pharmacy, Nanded, India. He has more than 23 years of Professional Experience as a Teacher and Researcher. He published over 120 research articles in indexed journals and guided 10 PhD students. His research areas are 3D Printing for Personalized Drug Delivery, Pulmonary Delivery of Vaccines, Micro/Nanoparticles, Phyto-Formulations and Drug Discovery. His major research focus is on identifying applications of various polymers for 3D Printing for Personalized Medication. He has been co-principal investigator for a sponsored research project of National Tea Research Foundation, India.

Mr. Suraj Mali formerly worked at Dr. Reddys Laboratories, Hyderabad as an Analytical Scientist and previously studied in the Department of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology, Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai. He has more than 57 Publications in international journals with an H index of 14, i10 15, RG Score of 26.77 with 10,000+ reads. He has 1 chapter in Springer Book, “Essential oils: Applications and Trends in Food Science and Technology”. He is a reviewer in a number of journals such as the Journal of heterocyclic chemistry, Nature Scientific Reports, SAR and QSAR in Environmental Research, Chemical Biology & Drug Design, ACS Omega, and Medicinal Chemistry Research. His research area includes computational chemistry, medicinal and organic chemistry and natural products.

Dr. Bijo Mathew is an Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the Amrita School of Pharmacy, Kochi, India. Dr. Bijo Mathew obtained his M.Pharm in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from The Tamilnadu Dr. M.G.R. Medical University, Tamilnadu, India in 2008, and Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, India in 2016. Dr. Mathew's primary areas of focus are drug discovery of neurodegenerative disorders, cancer and molecular modelling. He has published 161 papers, his h-index = 31; with the number of citations: 2659 in Google scholar; h-index = 30; the number of citations: 2287 in Scopus. Dr. Mathew has authored 1 book, 1 edited book, 5 book chapters and 26 invited talks at the national and international level. Dr. B. Mathew is serving as the chief executive guest editor of the journals of Molecules, Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry, and Current Drug Targets.

Dr. Gyan Modi received Ph.D. from Wayne State University, Detroit, USA, and postdoctoral training from Brandeis University, Waltham, USA. He has very intensive training in medicinal chemistry, organic synthesis, and chemical biology. As a productive researcher, he has published nearly 21 papers in high-impact journals like the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, ACS Medchem Letter, ACS Chemical Neuroscience, and filed eight patents, including four US patents in the fields of medicinal chemistry. Dr. Modi has received several grants such as Core Research Grant SERB, India, an Extramural research grant from ICMR, India as PI, and two more research projects from SERB as co-PI. He received several awards, such as SERB international travel support-2018, and Frank O. Taylor award.

Dr. Nimmala Manga Thayaru (B.Tech, M.Tech., Ph.D., MIEEE, MCSI, MISTE, MIAENG) is a professor in the department of Information Technology at the VNR Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering and Technology, India. She obtained her PhD degree in 2010 from Andhra University, India, with specialization in Computer Science & System Engineering. Overall, she has over 21 years of teaching experience, and her areas of interests are mainly focused on Computer Networks, Software Engineering, Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science Object Oriented Analysis and Design, Compiler design Database Management System, Operating Systems, etc., and she has research interests in various sub-topics related to Bioinformatics and Security. Dr. Thayaru has published more than 40 papers, on a diverse range of topics in various journals of international repute.

Dr. Vaishali M. Patil is working as Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at KIET Group of Institutions, GZB, India. Dr. Patil has completed her graduation in pharmacy (B. Pharm), post graduation (M. Pharm) and doctoral degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra. She has expertise for CADD, QSAR and medicinal chemistry. She has experience in handling computational software and interpretation of analytical data (IR, NMR, MS). Dr. Vaishali has authored papers published in peer reviewed Journals and 16 book chapters (Elsevier, Springer, and Nova). She has received funding from various national and international agencies.

Dr. Bhupendra works as a Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutics, Shree S.K.Patel College of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Ganpat University, North Gujarat, India. He did his Ph.D. from Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University, Patan, Gujarat, India. He did his PG and UG from M.S.University, Baroda, Gujarat. He has 19 years of experience in academic/industry (17+2). He was awarded the Carrier Award for Young Teacher by AICTE, New Delhi in 2013. He was also awarded for Distinguished Associate Professor in TechNExt India 2017 by CSI, Mumbai. He claims on his name more than fifty national and international publications. He fetched grants for Research Projects, Staff Development Programs, Seminars, Conferences, and Travel Grants from National and State Government agencies. He has also given his guidance in industrial consultancy projects conducted at the institute. His two patents were published and one application was submitted at the Indian Patent office. He has delivered expert talks and invited scientific sessions in several national and international conferences and seminars. He is actively working in the field of lipid-based drug delivery and nanotech formulations. He has guided 7 Ph.Ds. and 45 PG research scholars supervised and 5 Ph.Ds. and 3 PG research scholars are currently working under his guidance in the field of Nanoparticulate Drug Delivery and Bioavailability Enhancement.

Dr. Vineet Kumar Rai is an associate professor and head of the department of pharmaceutics, ISF College of Pharmacy, Moga Punjab. He is a doctorate from JNU, New Delhi, and has ten years of research experience. He is on the editorial board of SCI-indexed journals. His areas of research interest are drug delivery, formulation, and development of conventional and NDDS-based dosage forms. He is the principal investigator of industrial and government grants. He has supervised more than 25 Masters and Ph.D. scholars. He provides research consultancy to the industries for product development, analytical method development, validation, manufacturing assistance, and training to the production, R, and D personnel.

Dr. Sachchida Nand Rai did Masters in Applied Biochemistry from Purvanchal University in 2009. Dr. Rai did Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Banaras Hindu University on the topic “Immunomodulation of Parkinson’s disease using Mucuna pruriens” in “Neuroscience” stream. Presently, he is pursuing Postdoctoral Research on exploring the Autophagic potential of Mucuna pruriens in Parkinson’s disease from Centre of Biotechnology, University of Allahabad, Prayagraj under the mentorship of Prof. M. P. Singh.

Dr. C.Rajkuberan did PhD in Biotechnology in 2016, from Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirapplli, India. At present, he is currently working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Biotechnology, Karpagam Academy of Higher Education, Coimbatore, India. He is actively teaching both UG/PG students and has guided more than 30 PG students for project dissertation. He has published 35 papers to his credit with average cumulative impact factor 87.8 and h-index 14 with 771 citations. He has expertise in Nanomedicine, drug delivery, Polymers and Toxicology.

Dr.R.Elancheran is a Research Associate in the Department of Chemistry, Annamalai University under DST PURSE PHASE II. He was the CSIR-Senior Research Fellow at Institute of Advanced Study in Science and Technology (IASST), Guwahati, India from 2017 to 2018. He did M.Sc. in Organic Chemistry from Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu, India during 2008-2010. He became the Research Executive in the Medicinal Chemistry Department at Orchid Chemicals & Pharmaceutical Ltd, Chennai during 2010-2012. He received Ph.D. in Chemistry from Gauhati University. His current research interests are focused on Heterocyclic and Organic Catalysis, Crystallography and Medicinal Chemistry.

Dr. Rajkumar Sahani is a postdoctoral researcher working at the Medicine institute, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA. He received his PhD from the National Tsing-Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, (Homogeneous gold-catalysis) and postdoctoral training at the Center for Drug Design, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA. He is working on designing, synthesizing, and evaluating HIV-1 capsid protein inhibitors. His research interests are in targeting different viruses including Retroviruses, Cytomegaloviruses, and Flaviviruses. Currently, he is working to improving the cost effective and efficient processes for the synthesis of active pharmaceutical ingredients.

Dr. Velma received his BSc (2009) and MSc (2011) degrees in chemistry from the Osmania University, Hyderabad. He earned his Ph.D. in Medicinal Chemistry (2019) from CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad, India. During his Ph.D. final year, he moved to RMIT-University, Australia as a Visiting Research Fellow, then continued as postdoc fellow and later he joined as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Arizona, USA (Jan-2021,) where he is actively involved in the AD, T2D and breast cancer drug discovery projects. Dr. Velma has extensive experience in the development of lead molecules for the treatment of cancer and gained superior experience in-vitro in cell culture works. He authored nearly 30 international peer-reviewed journal articles and two (2) of the US patents granted among the 3 filed. In addition, he is serving as a reviewer for several international reputed peer-reviewed journals.

Dr. Pushpender Kumar Sharma is working as an Associate Professor at Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University Rajasthan, India. Previously, he has worked as an Assistant Professor at Sri Guru Granth Sahib World University, Fatehgarh Sahib Punjab, India. He completed his PhD from Department of Biotechnology, Panjab University Chandigarh and postdoctoral studies from Indian Institute of Sciences Education and Research Mohali, Punjab, India. He has more than 14 years of teaching and research experience and has guided four students for their PhD degree. His research interest focuses on metagenomic and meta transcriptome analysis of microbial communities in different environments. Expression and purification of novel proteins, protein engineering, and antimicrobial peptides. Bio catalysts engineering and their applications. He has published more than 42 research/review articles in journals of international repute and several book chapters. He has been awarded with the young scientist project award by SERB, New Delhi. He has also been awarded a patent for engineering a thermostable protein. He has reviewed several research papers for international journals from Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, ACS etc. He got awards of excellence for reviewing Elsevier’s International Journal of Biological Macromolecules.

Dr. Basanta Bhowmik is currently working as assistant Professor in the Dept. of Electronics and Communication Engineering, NIT Jamshedpur. He received PhD from Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, India. His research interest includes Nanomaterial, Nanocomposite, Chemical Sensor, and Disease Diagnosis. He is the author and co-author of about forty-two research articles in the journals and conferences of international repute. He received CSIR SRF fellowship and best poster award in the event Research Scholar Colloquium organized by IIEST Shibpur in 2014. He has been awarded the second best PhD thesis by Institute of Smart Structure and System, IISc Bangalore. He is a member of IEEE, IEEE Electron Device Society, IEEE Sensor Council, IEEE Nanotechnology Council and life member of Institute of Smart Structure and System, India. He presently served as an active reviewer of many journals including, IEEE Sensor Journal (IEEE), RSC Advances (RSC), ACS Sensor (ACS), Smart material and structures (IOP) Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids (Elsevier), Journal of Nanoparticle Research (Springer), BioNanoscience (Springer), Microelectronics Journal ((Elsevier)), Vaccum (Elsevier), Nanoexpress, Chemical Engineering Journal etc.

Dr. Mohd Faraz is an Institute Postdoctoral Fellow at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. He received his PhD (Chemistry) from Aligarh Muslim University, India in 2016. His research interests include synthesis and development of novel piezoelectric sensors for energy harvesting.

Dr. Koyeli Girigoswami, Associate Professor, Biophysics, FAHS, CHRI has done her M.Sc. and PhD in Biophysics from University of Kalyani and pursued her Post Doc from KAIST, South Korea. She was working as Assistant Professor at AIIHߖPH, Govt of India before joining CHRI. Her field of research interest is medical bionanotechnology, development of bionanosensors, toxicity study using mammalian cell culture and zebrafish model, ZnO nanoflowers and its application, Amyloidosis, Enzymes from natural sources to degrade insulin amyloids, Alzheimer’s beta amyloid and prion peptide.

Dr. Mohamed Jaffer Sadiq Mohamed, PhD, is working as Postdoctoral Researcher in the School of Chemical Science and Technology, Yunnan University, Kunming, P.R. China. Dr. Mohamed Jaffer Sadiq M received B.Sc. (2006) in Chemistry from Bharathiyar University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu; M.Sc. (2008) in Applied Chemistry from National Institute of Technology (NIT), Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu; M.Tech. (2014) in Nanotechnology from Karunya University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu; and PhD (2017) in Chemistry from National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK), Surathkal, Mangalore, Karnataka. He started his career as a Chemist in Hindustan Zinc Limited, Rajasthan, for 4 years. Dr. Mohamed Jaffer Sadiq M is now working as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the School of Chemical Science and Technology, Kunming and actively involved in teaching and research activities. He has more than 10 years of industrial and research experience. His areas of interest are photocatalysis, heterogeneous catalysis, wastewater treatment, biomaterials, bionanotechnology etc. Dr. Mohamed Jaffer Sadiq M has published 20 research articles and technical papers in International peer reviewed journals like Springer, Elsevier, RSC, and ACS etc. He is also serving as editor and reviewer of several journals. He has participated in several State, National, and International conferences, seminars, workshops, and symposia and more than 20 conference papers are to his credit.

Dr. R. Parameshwaran is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus. He received his B.E. degree with distinction in Mechanical Engineering from Bharathiar University in 2003. He obtained his M.E. in Refrigeration and Air Conditioning from Anna University, Chennai in 2007. He received a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Anna University, Chennai in 2014. He is recognized as one of the leading researchers in India in the field of nanomaterials-based thermal energy storage for sustainable buildings. He is now placed at the second position among the top researchers in the country in the abovementioned field, based on the Scopus database. His research interests include thermal energy storage, nanomaterials, nanoscale heat transport, smart and sustainable buildings. His research career over a decade enabled him to contribute significantly in the development of novel hybrid nanomaterials-embedded phase change materials for cooling applications. His active research contributions on thermal energy storage systems using nanomaterials have made him publish a number of papers in peer reviewed International Journals and Conferences. To add to his research credentials, he has also authored books and book chapters on thermal energy storage in buildings using nanomaterials. He is a recipient of the prestigious “Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Postdoctoral Fellowship” for carrying out his Research in Japan. He is a recipient of outstanding contributions in reviewing for a number of international journals. He is appointed as an Academic Editor for PLOS ONE Journal in 2021 and he is serving as an Editorial Board Member for International Journal of Hydromechatronics, Materials Science Research India, Trends in Renewable Energy from 2017 to present. He also received the 5th Bry-Air Awards for Excellence in HVAC&R in 2010 for innovative and outstanding research project work.

Dr. Keyur D. Bhatt is currently working as Associate Professor and Head of the Chemistry Department at Ganpat University. He has successfully guided more than 100 students in obtaining their M.Sc. Phil., PhDs degrees and 5 Ph. D students are working under his supervision at present. He has to his credit 03 Indian patents, 67 Research articles and over 15 books in international journals. He has more than 750 plus citations with an h-index of 17. He has more than 12 years of teaching as well as research experience. His area of interest and specialization is to design synthesis, characterization of supramolecules, fluorescence sensors and nanoparticles.

Dr. Dudhipala is currently serving in the Department of Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery in a research position. Before that, he worked as an associate professor in the Department of Pharmaceutics at the Vaagdevi Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences in India, previously serving as an assistant professor at the institution. He did a doctorate and M. Pharm. degrees from Kakatiya University (India). Dr. Dudhipala’s diversity of skills sets him apart from others in the field, as his technical mastery allows him to design and execute complex studies on drug delivery development.

Dr. Praveen Kumar Gaur is currently Principal and Professor at Metro College of Health Sciences & Research, Greater Noida has more than 16 years of teaching experience along with guidance to M. Pharm students and PhD scholars. His research work has resulted in more than 57 international publications, along with 10 books and two patents. He is serving as editorial board member in international journals in the field of Nanotechnology, Transdermal drug delivery and Novel drug delivery. He has received a research grant from Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University, Lucknow.

Prof. Chanchal Deep Kaur is one of the eminent known Pharmacist and she is currently working as a Professor and Principal at the Rungta College of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research, Raipur, Chhattisgarh affiliated to Chhattisgarh Swami Vivekananda Technical University, Bhilai, C.G. She has done D.Pharm, B.Pharm, M.Pharm, PhD and MBA. Her key areas of interest include Targeting approaches, NDDS for plant actives, skin cancer, ovarian cancer and lymphatic disorders.

Dr. Pooja Mittal is currently working as an Associate Professor at School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, RIMT University, Mandi Gobindgarh (Punjab), India. She has 8+ years of experience in teaching and research. Prior to this, she worked at Maharishi Markandeshwar University (Sadopur) Ambala (Haryana) and at Baddi University of Emerging Sciences and Technology, Baddi (Solan). She has guided 05 M. Pharm students and about 10 B.Pharm students. She is currently authoring 3 books, one has to be published by Bentham and another book has to be published by Elsevier. She has published about 35 Research and Review Papers and many book chapters on her part. She has published 31 copyrights and 2 patents have been applied recently. She has attended various national and International conferences in India and abroad. She received the travel grant from DST-SERB in 2016 to attend the International Convention of Controlled Release Society, held at Seattle, USA. She received her Ph.D degree from Department of Pharmaceutical Engineering and Technology, IIT (BHU) Varanasi in 2018. She also received the Young Scientist Award- WF from SPER in 2017.

Omkara Swami Muddineti, PhD is a Pharmaceutical Development and Manufacturing Scientist, at Societal CDMO, California, USA. He is associated with academic and industrial research for the last 10 years. He completed his PhD in 2018 in Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology. He has written 14 research and review articles with total IF > 75 (JCR 2021), with reputed publishers like Elsevier, Taylor & Francis, ACS publishers etc. He received his ICMR-Senior Research Fellow award during his PhD tenure. He has worked with different industries and has expertise in the development of nanotechnology-based formulations. He is also associated as reviewer for different journals.

Dr. Pasupuleti Visweswara Rao is currently working at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Sabah.Dr Rao is currently the Head for Non-Communicable Diseases Research niche areas. Prior to this, Dr. Rao was the Director for the Centre of Excellence and the founding Chairman for Animal Ethics Committee at the Universiti Malaysia Kelantan (UMK), Malaysia, and as a Visiting Researcher and Visiting Professor to Japan, Macao, Indonesia, India and Thailand. Dr Pasupuleti’s research mainly focuses on natural products, antioxidants, oxidative stress, metabolic diseases, and nanoparticles research.

Dr. Rajiv Gupta is an alumnus of the prestigious Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Dr. Hari Singh Gour Central University (formerly Sagar University), Sagar, (M.P). He has a rich industrial experience of six years and is serving academics for the last nineteen years (total experience of 25 years). He is presently serving as Principal and Dean, School of Pharmacy, BBD University, Lucknow, (Earlier known as Faculty of Pharmacy, Babu Banarasi Das National Institute of Technology & Management) holding additional post of Head, Department of Pharmacognosy. He is member of the Central Administration team of BBD University, Convener of Doctorate Program Admission Test (D.P.A.T.) and Internal Quality Assessment Cell (I.Q.A.C.) of BBDU. His area of Interest is medicinal plants particularly Standardization and H.P.T.L.C. studies along with herbal formulation. At post graduate level i.e. M. Pharm., he has supervised forty Dissertation work, and six as Co-Supervisor, and supervising six Ph.D. (Pharm.Sci.) research scholars. He has co-authored four books. He is a reviewer and editorial board member of several national & international research journals. He has more than 90 National / International Publications/ presentations to his credit and has attended many conferences, seminars & workshops etc. He is a Life member of Pharmaceutical based professional organizations like A.P.T.I., I.S.P. & S.P.E.R. etc.

Dr. Shailendra S Gurav completed Doctorate in Medicine from RTM University Nagpur, India and is currently affiliated as Professor in Goa College of Pharmacy, Goa, India. He is the recipient of the “Senior Research Fellowship” of the Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, India. He is also awarded the “International Travel Fellowship” by CICS, Phytochemical Society of Europe and Asia. He is honoured as the Best “Professor in Pharmacognosy” by Devang Mehta National Education Foundation, India. His research interests are Ayurveda Biology, Natural Products Research, Computational Biology and Herbal Nanotechnology.

Dr. Salvi is a Plant Molecular Biologist and his research work majorly focused on seed and stress biology. He did his Ph.D. from the National Institute of Plant Genome Research, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Presently, he is working as a DST-INSPIRE-Faculty at National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute (NABI), Mohali, India. At NABI, he is running an independent lab as a Principal Investigator of different research projects. During his research tenure, he has been deeply involved in dissecting the candidate genes that have a concurrent association with abiotic stress and seed longevity, that can be targeted for crop improvement as the studied gene(s) were found to be the key regulators of seed vigor, longevity, and stress signaling trade-offs in plants.

Dr. Aman Upaganlawar, is working as Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmacology at SNJBs SSDJ College of Pharmacy, Chandwad, Maharashtra, India. He has 15 years of academic as well as research experience. He has published more than 80 scientific papers and published 21 book chapters with reputed publishers. He has edited two international books and authored two text books in pharmaceutical sciences. His area of interest is the screening of bioactive molecules for various disorders, screening of antioxidants, and diabetes and its complications. He is a recipient of various prestigious awards, such as N. N. Datta and Dr. Saroj Sharma award for the best published paper, Best teacher award, National Doctoral fellowship and ICMR travel grant. He is a potential reviewer and brand ambassador of Bentham Science.

Subham Bhattacharjee completed his B.Sc. and M.Sc. from North Bengal University. After completing his Ph.D. from the Department of Organic Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India under the supervision of Prof. Santanu Bhattacharya, he continued in the same group as a post-doc and worked in collaboration with Prof. C. N. R. Rao. Then, he moved to the Netherlands and joined Prof. Rint Sijbesma’s group in February 2016 as a post-doc and continued until joining as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry, Kazi Nazrul University, Asansol in March 2019. His current research interest lies in developing various supramolecular nanostructured materials and their applications.

Dr. Samir Kumar Mandal received his Ph. D. degree from The Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, India. Dr. Mandal did his Post-Doctoral Research from the City College, City University of New York. His research field is synthetic development of some medicinally active chemicals mainly based on radical methodology and green methodology, chemicals toxicology and medicinally important fluoro-organics synthesis. He had adequate experiences in GMP and cGMP practices of APIs and of CRO based pharmaceuticals. He worked as a lecturer at the Prasannadeb Womens’ College, University of North Bengal and a prestigious Young Scientist in the Department of Chemistry, Kalyani University. Currently, he is working as Assistant Professor at Saldiha College, Bankura University. He has published review articles, seminar books, proceedings and more than 20 research articles in different journals of National and International repute. He is serving as reviewer of national and international journals. He is a life-member of several scientific associations.

Dr. Hitendra M. Patel is a Professor of Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry, Sardar Patel University, Gujarat, India. He was admitted as a Fellow and an Elected Member of the Organic Division Council, The Royal Society of Chemistry, London. He is a Review Editor in Organic Chemistry section, Frontiers in Chemistry Journal and Editorial board member of Frontiers in Chemistry and in Arkivoc journal. He has 22 and 15 years of rich experience in Teaching and Research, respectively. He has membership in many national and international professional organizations like RSC, ACS, ICS, ISCB etc. His research group focuses on Organic Chemistry for the Development of Bioactive Heterocyclic Scaffolds via Multi-component reactions, utilizing a Sustainable Chemistry approach and results have been published in more than 30 research papers in reputed journals related to Organic Chemistry. He has been granted two projects of rupees 51.81 lakh from National agencies like DST-SERB and UGC, New Delhi. He was selected as a Brand ambassador of Bentham Science Publisher for the Year of 2018-2019. He has given many invited talks at the National and International level in Conferences and Universities and has received many awards. He is an expert reviewer in many highly reputed Journals with more than 140 reviewed papers.

Dr. S. Rajasekhara Reddy did M.Sc in organic chemistry from Andhra University in India in 2002. He worked as a Junior Research Fellow at IITG, India, under Dr. T. Punniyamurthy (2003-04). In 2010, he received a Ph.D. from IITM, India, under Professor Anju Chadha. He served as an Assistant Professor at VIT University in Vellore till 2014. Currently, he is serving as an Associate Professor. He did his postdoctoral work at NTNU, Taiwan with Prof. Ching Fa Yao. His major research focuses on synthetic organic chemistry applied to catalysis, medicinal chemistry, asymmetric synthesis, and chemistry from natural carbohydrates. He is also meticulously performing his duties in teaching and guiding UG, PG students, and has been awarded five Ph.D. 's and currently guiding six.

Dr. Debayan Sarkar is presently an associate professor of chemistry at the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Rourkela, Odisha, India. He has completed his M.Sc. with organic chemistry specialization from University of North Bengal (NBU) in 2005 followed by a PhD in organic synthesis from IACS Kolkata in 2011 under the supervision of Prof. R. V. Venkateswaran. He completed his post-doctoral studies from the Stanford University (USA) under the mentorship of Prof. Barry M.Trost. He has been recently deputed as a visiting senior assistant professor at Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku University (Japan) under the mentorship of Prof. M. Yamaguchi (2015-2016). He has been the recipient of prestigious awards like INSPIRE, BRNS-DAE Young Scientist Award (2014), Indo-US Research Award (2012) etc. His research interest includes dearomatisation reactions, atom economic couplings, complex total synthesis of natural products. he has published 50 papers in International Journals of repute, guided 5 Ph.D students and presently 15 Ph.D students are working under his supervision.

Dr. Gnanamani obtained his Ph.D. from Pondicherry University with Prof. C. R. Ramanathan. In June 2013, he began a postdoctoral appointment at the ICCAS, with Profs. Luo Sanzhong and Jin-Pei Cheng. In November 2014, he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to pursue further postdoctoral studies at Stanford University. At Stanford, he worked with Prof. Barry M. Trost group from January 2015 to March 2020 on a variety of different transition metal-catalyzed reactions. While at Stanford, he also worked with Prof. R. N. Zare, to develop methods of accelerating organic reactions in microdroplets. He joined the Department of Chemistry, IIT-Roorkee as an assistant professor in 2020.

Dr. Devalina Ray is currently employed as Assistant Professor in the Department of Biotechnology, Amity University, Noida, UP, India. She pursued B.Sc(H) in Chemistry followed by M. Sc in Organic Chemistry from Kalyani University, WB, India. In 2008, she received her Ph.D. in chemistry from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India. She has been a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Texas Medical Branch, USA, the University of Nebraska Medical Centre, USA, followed by Myongji University and Hanyang University, South Korea. Thereafter, she joined the Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology- Delhi as research associate and young scientist. Her research interests involve synthetic organic chemistry, green chemistry, medicinal and natural product chemistry and transition-metal-catalyzed C–H activation.

Dr. Awasthi has over 16 years of professional experience and presently working at University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES), Dehradun, India. Dr. Awasthi obtained his Ph.D. degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, India. His scholarly interests range widely from the development of novel micro and nanoparticulate drug delivery systems. He has authored or co-authored more than 130 scientific documents in various high impact journals (Cumulative IF over 200 & H-index of 22). He has one national & 2 international patents to his credit. Dr. Awasthi has supervised more than 16 graduate students and 1 Ph.D. scholar as the main supervisor. He is serving as an active reviewer for more than 15 international journals. His name has been included in Who’s Who in the World® recognizing his achievements in pharmaceutical research.

Srinivasa Reddy Bonam obtained his bachelor's and master's degrees in pharmacy from the Chalapathi Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences in Guntur, India. He obtained his PhD in 2018 from the AcSIR at the IICT in India, where he focused on the development of novel immunomodulators and vaccine, and Current Indian Science adjuvants against infectious diseases under the supervision of Dr. H.M. Sampath Kumar. He was awarded a Raman Charpak Fellowship to work at the University of Strasbourg's IBMC. He trained as a postdoctoral researcher at IBMC, University of Strasbourg, France, from 2018 until early 2020, under Prof. Sylviane Muller's supervision. He worked at IBMC on the P140 (Lupuzor®), a 21-mer peptide that fights systemic lupus erythematosus. Currently, he is continuing his postdoctoral research on the ‘next-generation flu vaccines for the world’ with Prof. Jagadeesh Bayry at INSERM, CRC, Paris, France. He has an h-index of 18 with over 70 publications and over 1,000 citations. He has three patents, one of which has just been licensed to a private organization. He is an editorial board member of a number of journals. He has been a member of various professional associations and also serves as a professional development committee member for the Society of Leukocyte Biology.

Dr. Vipin Dhote is an academic researcher having specialization in Pharmacology and working towards integrating multidisciplinary research from the fields of metabolic and inflammatory diseases. Presently, he completed his Ph.D from M.S. University of Baroda, Vadodara and is working as a Professor in Pharmacology at Faculty of Pharmacy, VNS group of Institutions, Bhopal. Earlier his robust experience in R & D center with industries and academic exposure of more than 20 years drives understanding of societal role of Pharmacists. He has multiple publications and book chapters to his credit. During professional journey, he was awarded for his publications, received international travel grants and garnered opportunities to enhance knowledge about social pharmacy and its practices in India. With the objective of integrating different aspects of social, therapeutic and exploratory sciences in traditional and modern medicines, he fosters worthwhile research with scientific value.

Dr. Md. Faiyazuddin is a Professor in the School of Pharmacy, Al – Karim University, INDIA. He is the Dean of Research & Development of Al – Karim University and oversees all research activities at the university. Prof. Faiyazuddin has been actively engaged in teaching & research in the frontier areas of Pharmaceutical Sciences for the last 15 years. Dr. Faiyazuddin’s expertise is in Respiratory Nanomedicine and drug delivery. Internationally, Dr. Faiyazuddin has worked with Nano Drug Delivery© USA, University of Hail KSA, and Malaysian and Canadian Enterprises. He is the founder president of International Pharmaceutical Forum- a worldwide community of pharmaceutical fraternity. In recognition of his work, he was nominated as a Fellow member of the prestigious George Washington University USA for three years (2019 -2022). He has honorary membership of the British Society of Nanomedicine, International Society of Aerosol in Medicine, Chicago, Institute of Nanotechnology, Scotland. Most recently he earned ‘Executive Degree in Strategic Leadership Management’ from the Jacobs-Abbey Global Institute for Leadership Studies, USA. Dr. Faiyazuddin’s credentials include 04 grants, 64 research and review papers, 05 books, 09 book chapters, and 05 awards. He was the recipient of prestigious P. D. Sethi Award (2010), DST Young Scientist (2013), Highest Citation Award (2012), and Dettol Protector Icon (2021). Dr. Faiyazuddin is in the editorial boards of various national and international journals.

Dr. Akhlesh K. Jain is currently working as an Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutics in the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Guru Ghasidas Central University, Bilaspur, India. He received his PhD degree in Formulation Science from Jamia Hamdard University, India in 2007 and postdoctoral training at Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland and National University of Singapore, Singapore during 2008-2011. He also worked as a Senior Scientist at Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow India. He is the recipient of many reputed fellowships including Junior Research Fellowship and CSIR- SRF for research. His research focused on nanoparticles, nanocarriers based delivery systems, mucosal vaccination, non-invasive protein delivery and ligand conjugated colloidal carriers for cancer therapy. Dr. Jain has authored more than 50 scientific publications in peer reviewed journals along with an international patent.

Fazlurrahman Khan obtained his PhD in Microbiology from Jawaharlal Nehru University in India. He is a Research Professor at the Research Center for Marine Integrated Bionics Technology, Pukyong National University, Busan, South Korea. His most recent research focuses on (1) Isolating and characterizing natural molecules that may inhibit the biofilm and virulence properties of both fungal and bacterial pathogen, (2) chemical synthesis of molecules with antimicrobial potential, (3) polymeric and metallic nanoparticles synthesis as potential antimicrobial and antibiofilm drugs, and (4) investigating the molecular mechanisms of bacterial and fungal pathogens interactions in the polymicrobial biofilms.

Nagavendra Kommineni worked as a Research Associate in Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, FL-USA. Currently, he is working as a Research fellow in the Population Council at Rockefeller University, New York, USA. His area of expertise includes Liposomal technology for delivering small molecules, Stem cell derived Exosome delivery of small molecules for cancer, Lipid nanoparticles for cancer, Topical and Transdermal product development and development of complex and sterile injectables, developing nanotechnology-based products for HIV and contraception.