About the Author | Jyotiranjan Nayak is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the Faculty of Science and Technology (IcfaiTech), IFHE, Hyderabad, India. Prior to this, he was Associate Professor at the Institute of Technical Education and Research, Siksha “O” Anusandhan University, Bhubaneswar, India, and has more than 32 years of teaching experience in undergraduate and postgraduate engineering studies. He taught the subjects like differential equations, vector analysis, complex analysis, linear algebra, numerical methods, optimization techniques, discrete mathematics, and advanced calculus at the undergraduate level. He taught postgraduate students algebra, cryptography, number theory, real analysis, topology, combinatorics, graph theory, and operations research. For Ph.D. students, he has delivered lectures on advanced computational mathematics, matrix algebra, and design of experiments at different universities, including Utkal University, Biju Patnaik University of Technology, Berhampur University, Siksha “O” Anusandhan, and ICFAI University. Besides, he has been a guest and visiting faculty at many other universities in the country. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from Utkal University in 2005. His research areas include non-convex programming, fuzzy optimization, optimal control, and topology optimization. He has published 12 research papers in leading national and international journals. He is also the former associate editor of The Journal of Orissa Mathematical Society. He was Vice-President of the Operational Research Society of India (ORSI), Bhubaneswar chapter. He is an executive member of the Orissa Mathematical Society (OMS) and a life member of the Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE), Orissa Information Society (OITS), and Ramanujan Society of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences (RSMSS).Shreekant Varshney is Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics, School of Technology (SoT), Pandit Deendayal Energy University, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India. Before this, he worked as Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the Faculty of Science and Technology (IcfaiTech), IFHE, Hyderabad, India. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, Pilani Campus, in 2020. He is actively involved in the research areas, namely queueing theory, machine repair problem (MRP), optimal control, reliability and maintainability, stochastic modeling, sensitivity analysis, evolutionary computation, statistical analysis, fuzzy set and logic, etc. He has taught undergraduate subjects such as linear algebra, differential equations, complex analysis, advanced calculus, numerical methods, and probability and statistics. He also has experience in teaching courses like research methodology, stochastic modeling, and introduction to queueing theory for Ph.D. students. Besides attending, presenting scientific papers, and delivering invited talks in FDPs, he has organized several workshops and symposiums. He has been awarded second prize in the academic writing competition organized by SIAM journal publishing. He has 13 research articles in journals of high repute, namely, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Quality Technology and Quantitative Management, Arabian Journal of Science and Engineering, etc. He is also a reviewer of many reputed journals. As a professional, he has visited IIRS (ISRO), CSIR-IIP, and WIHG.Chandra Shekhar, the Professor and Ex-HoD of the Department of Mathematics at BITS Pilani, India, is actively involved in research and teaching in the area of queueing theory, computer and communication systems, machine repair problems, reliability and maintainability, stochastic processes, evolutionary computation, statistical analysis, and fuzzy set and logic. |