Dr. Ashwani K. Gupta is a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. He obtained his PhD and higher doctorate (DSc) from the University of Sheffield, UK, and also DSc from the University of Southampton, UK. He received Honorary Doctorates from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, the University of Derby, UK, and KMUTNB, Thailand, bestowed by the Princess of Thailand. His research interests include swirl flows, combustion, air pollution, sprays, high intensity distributed combustion, fuel reforming, waste and biomass to clean fuels, pyrolysis and gasification, acid gas treatment for sulfur recovery, and laser diagnostics for high speed flows He is Honorary Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and Fellow of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS), UK.He is the founding co-editor of the Energy Engineering and Environment Series published by CRC Publishers. He is Associate Editor of J. Propulsion & Power, Intl. J. Sprays & Combustion Dynamics, and J. Applied Energy. He is the recipient of AIAA Energy Systems, Propellants & Combustion, Air Breathing Propulsion, and Pendray awards; ASME George Westinghouse Gold, James Harry Potter Gold, James Landis, Worcester Reed Warner, Holley medal, Honda Medal, and Melville Medal awards; ASME-AIM Percy Nicholls award; ASEE Ralph Coats Roe award. At the University of Maryland, he received President Kirwan Research award and College of Eng. Research award. He has co-authored over 250 journal papers, 500 plus conference papers, 3 books, and 12 edited books.
Dr. Hukam C. Mongia continues to provide services in gas turbine combustion science and technology innovation since May 2011. During his 7-year stay at Purdue University, he collaborated with his colleagues and students on research activities relevant to next-generation energy efficient fuel-flexible ultra-low emissions gas turbine engines for propulsion and power generation. These included collaborative works with IISc, IITM, UCONN/HAPRI-ACAE, Spectral Energies, NASA, Woodward, Nexus, FAA/UT and Dresser Rand. During his 37-year career with three engine design and manufacturing companies (GE Aviation, Allison now Rolls Royce of North America, and Garrett now Honeywell Aerospace), he has contributed significantly in developing combustion technology, design methodology and tools in addition to transition of technology into products; e.g., TAPS for GEnx, LEAP-X, GE9X and other future GE propulsion and aero derivative industrial engines. Dr. Mongia is credited with more than 300 publications, 30 patents and several significant awards and recognition, including Fellow of AIAA and ASME, recipient of AIAA Air Breathing award, Best Paper award by AIAA Terrestrial Energy Committee, “125 Alumni to Watch”, University of Massachusetts 125th Anniversary Celebration in 1988, and 1st Edison Award “to annually recognize key technical innovators from General Electric,”.
Dr Pankaj Chandna is currently working as a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra, Haryana. He has more than twenty-six years of professional experience, with a blend of teaching, research and education administration and an excellent academic record. He has the privilege to serve as the President (Vice Chancellor), Mewar University, Rajasthan. His academic contributions include publishing of about ninety-two research papers in international and national journals/conferences, supervision of 14 PhD scholars and 38 M.Tech. dissertations in the varied areas of industrial engineering including scheduling, inventory management, ergonomics and GSCM, CAE etc. In addition to the above, he has been serving as member of board ofgovernors/academic councils/board of studies of various universities and engineering institutions; member of various evaluation/selection committees & regulatory bodies; member of editorial boards & reviewer of journals. He has participated, presented papers/talks and chaired technical sessions in more than thirty-two conferences/workshops in Australia, Canada, Dubai, France, India, Malaysia, Singapore and USA. He has been the recipient of many international and national awards, appreciations including ENVIROENERGY Technocrat Appreciation Award- 2010 (WFO, UK); Technocrat Par Excellence Scroll of Honour-2009 (MSME, Govt. of India); appreciation by Hon’ble Board of Governors, NIT Kurukshetra-2009; appreciation by Hon’ble Chairman, Board of Governors, NIT Kurukshetra-2007 etc. He has been very actively involved in the administrative/managerial activities of the institute in terms of creating various industry supported centers of excellence; organization of twenty international/national confere
