Proceedings of Congress on Control, Robotics, and Mechatronics / Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies Bd.364 (PDF)

06 research grants for various sponsored projects from GNIDA, NAL, BRNS, MHRD, and AICTE. He has guided 08 Ph.D.s and 26 M.Tech. scholars. He has published more than 130 research articles in peer-reviewed international journals and conferences. Dr. Tripathi's primary interest is working on practical problems using fundamental concepts of Computational Fluid Dynamics especially in diesel engine, heating, ventilation and air[1]conditioning, turbulent flows, unconventional energy systems, etc.



Elango Natarajan has obtained B.E. and M.E. from University of Madras in 1997 and 1999, respectively. He has received Ph.D. in the areas of Soft Robotics in February 2010. He then completed his post-doctoral research in Universiti Teknologi Malaysia in the areas of soft actuators. He has received Chartered Engineer (CEng.) from Engineering Council, UK, in 2014. He has more than 20+ years of teaching experience. He is currently attached to Department of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, UCSI University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia as Associate Professor. He has completed two Malaysian Government-funded projects and two internal funded projects worth of about MYR 594,000. He is currently working on four Malaysian Government-funded projects worth of MYR 457,800 and three internal grant projects worth of MYR 120,000. He has published 90 research articles in SCOPUS/WoS Journals. His current h-index is 17 in SCOPUS. He has edited three conference proceedings and a book. He is now editing a special issue in Materials (MDPI), two books (Elsevier and T&F). He is Reviewer of many top WoS journals, and he has reviewed more than 200 journal articles for refereed journals. He is involved in many professional societies including IEEE, IET, and ASM international. He was Executive Committee Member of IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Malaysia from 2018 to 2020. He is now Secretary of IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Malaysia, from 2021. He is Professional Review Interviewer appointed by Institution of Engineering and Technology, UK.

Harish Sharma is Associate Professor at Rajasthan Technical University, Kota, in Department of Computer Science & Engineering. He has worked at Vardhaman Mahaveer Open University Kota and Government Engineering College Jhalawar. He received his B.Tech. and M.Tech. degrees in Computer Engg. from Government Engineering College, Kota, and Rajasthan Technical University, Kota, in 2003 and 2009, respectively. He obtained his Ph.D. from ABV-Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Gwalior, India. He is Secretary and one of the founder members of Soft Computing Research Society of India. He is Lifetime Member of Cryptology Research Society of India, ISI, Kolkata. He is Associate Editor of "International Journal of Swarm Intelligence (IJSI)" published by Inderscience. He has also edited special issues of the many reputed journals like "Memetic Computing", "Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence", "Evolutionary Intelligence", etc. His primary area of interest is nature-inspired optimization techniques. He has contributed in more than 125 papers published in various international journals and conferences.