Hemant Kumar Pathak is Professor and Head of the School of Studies in Mathematics at the Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur, India. He also is the dean of science, member of the standing committee, director of the Center for Basic Sciences, and director of the Human Resource Development Centre at the same university. He has previously worked at Kalyan Mahavidyalaya, Bhilai Nagar, and the Government Postgraduate College, Dhamtari, India. He earned his Ph.D. from Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University in 1988.
Professor Pathak was awarded the “Distinguished Service Award 2011” by the Vijnana Parishad of India. With over 40 years of teaching and research experience, he has published a book, An Introduction to Nonlinear Analysis and Fixed Point Theory (Springer Nature), and more than 200 research papers in leading international journals of repute on approximation theory, operator theory, integration theory, fixed point theory, number theory, cryptography, summability theory, and fuzzy set theory.
Professor Pathak currently serves on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Fixed Point Theory and Applications (Springer Nature), and the Journal of Modern Methods in Numerical Mathematics; and as a reviewer for the Mathematical Review of the American Mathematical Society. In addition, he is a life member of the Allahabad Mathematical Society, Bharata Ganita Parishad, the Vijnana Parishad of India, Calcutta Mathematical Society, and National Academy of Mathematics.
