Dr. R. Keshavamurthy is a full time professor and Head of Department of Mechanical Engineering at Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, Bangalore, India. He has completed Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering followed by Masters of Technology in Manufacturing Science and Engineering and PhD in Mechanical Engineering. He started his career as Research Associate in 2007, followed by Scientist at Central Manufacturing Technology Institute (CMTI) (GOI) Bangalore, in Rapid manufacturing division and presently working at Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering. He has been a recipient of many sponsored research projects as Principal Investigator which was mainly sponsored by SERB, Dept. of Science & Technology, GOI, VGST Govt. Of Karnataka and AICTE, New Delhi. Under his guidance more than 10 batches of students have obtained sponsored research grant from Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology. His patents are also numerous and one being in the field of Additive Manufacturing. He has guided numerous PhD, postgraduate and graduate students. He is a lifetime member of numerous professional bodies. He is recipient of numerous awards and also Gold medalist for securing highest percent in Master of Technology. He is editorial member and reviewer of numerous reputed journals. He has more than 150 research articles publication in journals and conferences and authored more than 20 book chapters. He has lifelong citations of 2224 and has h-index of 27.Vijay Tambrallimath completed his Bachelor of Engineering from VTU, Karnataka, India in 2011 and Master of Technology from VTU, Karnataka, India in 2013. PhD in synthesis and characterization of polymer composites developed by 3D printing technology was completed in Bangalore, India in 2020. He is recipient of numerous best research paper awards in international conferences. He has been a reviewer at Scopus journals in the field of Additive Manufacturing and composites. He has published more than 25 research papers and 8 book chapters till date. To his credit he has a granted Australian Patent in the field of Additive Manufacturing and one published patent in Indian Patent Office. He has a research grant in the field of Additive Manufacturing. Also he has been an invited speaker in national level faculty development program in the field of Additive Manufacturing. He has extensive international research collaborations at his very young age.
J. Paulo Davim is a Full Professor at the University of Aveiro, Portugal. He is also distinguished as honorary professor in several universities/colleges/institutes in China, India and Spain. He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering, MSc in Mechanical Engineering (materials and manufacturing processes) and Mechanical Engineering degree (5 years), from the University of Porto (FEUP), the Aggregate title (Full Habilitation) from the University of Coimbra and the DSc (Higher Doctorate) from London Metropolitan University. He is Fellow (FIET) of IET-London and Eur Ing by Engineers Europe FEANI-Brussels. He is also Senior Chartered Engineer by the Portuguese Institution of Engineers with an MBA and Specialist titles in Engineering and Industrial Management as well as in Metrology. He has more than 35 years of teaching and research experience in Manufacturing, Materials, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, with special emphasis in Machining, Tribology & Surface Engineering. He has also interest in Design, Management, Sustainability, Industry 5.0, Engineering Education and Higher Education for Sustainability. He has guided large numbers of postdoc, PhD and master’s students as well as has coordinated and participated in several financed research projects. He has received several scientific awards and honors. He has worked as evaluator of projects for ERC-European Research Council and other international research agencies as well as examiner of PhD thesis for many universities in different countries. He is the Editor in Chief of several international journals, book Series Editor and Scientific Advisory for many conferences. Presently, he is an Editorial Board member of 30 international journals and acts as reviewer for more than 200. In addition, he has also published as editor (and co-editor) more than 300 books and as author (and co-author) more than 15 books, 100 book chapters and 600 articles in journals and conferences (WoS/h-index 70+/17000+ citations, SCOPUS/h-index 79+/21500+ citations, Google Scholar/h-index 99+/36500+ citations). He was listed in World´s Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University study 2023 (Ranked at 1 National Ranking / 2112 World Ranking single year 2022). Also, he was listed in Research.com ranking 2024 (Ranked at 1 National Ranking / 82 World Ranking in field of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Ranked at 7 National Ranking / 1400 World Ranking in field of Materials Science). 2022/23/24 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering/Materials Science in Portugal Leader Award [Editor]
