Sandip Kunar is Assistant Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Aditya University, Surampalem, Andhra Pradesh, India. His research interests include non-conventional machining processes, micromachining, robotics and automation, smart manufacturing, advanced manufacturing technology, and industrial engineering.

Gurudas Mandal is Assistant Professor at the Department of Metallurgical Engineering, Kazi Nazrul University, Asansol, West Bengal, India. His research interests focus on process-structure-property correlations of steel and biomaterials, particularly mechanical properties and degradation behaviour.

Arindam Biswas is Associate Professor at the School of Mines and Metallurgy, Kazi Nazrul University, West Bengal, India, and Adjunct Faculty at Taylor's University, Malaysia. His research interests include IoT, machine learning, deep learning, optimization, semiconductors, and computational materials science.

Guojun Ma is Professor at the School of Metallurgy and Energy, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China. His research interests include metallurgical environmental protection, comprehensive utilization of secondary resources, ferroalloy metallurgy, and electric arc furnace metallurgy.