Kaushik Kumar is Associate Professor at the Birla Institute of Technology, India. He has many years of industrial experience and his research interests include composites, optimization, non-conventional machining and quality management systems.

Bathini Sridhar Babu is Professor and Dean of the IIIIC at the CMR Institute of Technology, India. His research interests include manufacturing, advanced materials and mechanics of materials, among others.

J. Paulo Davim is Full Professor at the University of Aveiro, Portugal, and a Fellow (FIET) of The Institution of Engineering and Technology, UK. His research interests include manufacturing, materials and mechanical and industrial engineering, with a special emphasis on machining and tribology.