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Kirti Nayal is currently a Research Fellow (Doctoral, full-time) student in Operations and Supply Chain Management at the National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE), Mumbai, India. Her current research area involves sustainable lean supply chain management, digital supply chain management, circular economy, and systems engineering. She has received her Bachelor of Technology degree in Agricultural Engineering from G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Uttarakhand, India, and her Master of Technology degree in Food Technology and Management from NIFTEM, Haryana, India. She has worked as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Food Technology at Vignan University, Andhra Pradesh, and BFIT Uttarakhand, India. She has also worked as a Research Associate in Uttarakhand State Council for Science and Technology.

Dr. Rakesh Raut is an Asst. Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management at the National Institute of Industrial Engineering, Mumbai. Rakesh Raut received his Post-Doctoral Fellow from EPFL, Switzerland, and Fellowship (Ph.D.) from the National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE), Mumbai. He holds his M. Tech (Mechanical) and BE (Production) Degree from Nagpur University. He has more than nine years of work experience in industry and academic institutions. Before joining NITIE, he worked as an Assistant Professor at IMT, Nagpur, and Dubai and Symbiosis Centre for Management and Human Resource Development (SCMHRD), Pune. His research interest includes Industry 4.0, Cloud Computing Adoption, Cloud-IoT Adoption, Big Data Analytics, Green/Sustainable Supply Chain Management, He has co-authored several research items in peer-reviewed international journals such as International Journal of Production Research, International Journal of Production Economics, Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Journal of Cleaner Production, Renewable Energy, Annals of Operations Research, Business Strategy and the environment, etc.

Pragati Priyadarshinee holds a Ph.D. in “Cloud Computing” from the National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE), Mumbai, and an M.Tech in IT from IIIT, Allahabad. She has 12 years of experience in teaching and research with a number of peer-reviewed publications in International Journals of repute and conferences. She is an active reviewer of “Journal of Cleaner Production” and “International Journal of Information Management.” She is currently working as an Assistant Professor with Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology (CBIT), Hyderabad. Prior to joining CBIT, she worked with Premiere Institutes like Welingkar Institute of Management Studies, NIT Trichy, CBIT Hyderabad, JBIET and BVRITH as Assistant Professor.

Balkrishna Eknath Narkhede received a D.Sc. (Sc. and Tech.) and Ph.D. (Mechanical Engineering) from the University of Mumbai. He is presently serving as an Associate Professor in Operations and Supply Chain Management at the National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE) Mumbai, India. Before this, he has served at VJTI Mumbai, AIT Bangkok, DTE Mumbai in various capacities. He is a member of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers. His research interest includes Industrial Engineering and Manufacturing Systems. He has co-authored several research articles in peer-reviewed international journals such as RSER, JCLP, JEMA, IJPPM, SPC, BIJ, OPSEARCH, JM2, BSE, IJPM, etc.

Yigit Kazancoglu graduated from Izmir American College in 1998. Kazancoglu received his B.S. degree from Eastern Mediterranean University, Dept. of Industrial Engineering as an Honour student and second in dept. Ranking. He has graduated from Coventry University, England, MBA and Izmir University of Economics MBA programs as a High Honour student, respectively, in 2003 and 2004. Kazancoglu has received his PhD. at Ege University (Production and Operations Management). He was a research assistant between 2002 and 2005, an instructor between 2005 and 2008, Assistant Professor Dr. between 2008 and 2013, and Associate Professor Dr. between January 2014–2016 in Izmir University of Economics, Dept. of Business Administration. Between December 2016–May 2019, he worked as Associate Professor Dr. in Yasar University, International Logistics Management Department. In May 2019, he was assigned as Full Professor Dr. in the same department. He completed his military service as an academician in the Turkish Military Academy in 2009. He is the Izmir University of Economics Continuing Education Center (EKOSEM) director between 2009 and 2014 and an executive board member in the Center for Urban and Regional Development and Environment (URDE/EKOKENT) since 2008. He is the head of the International Logistics Management Department at Yasar University since 2017. His research areas are Operations Management, Supply Chain Management, Total Quality Management, Sustainability, Circular Economic, and MCDM multicriteria decision-making methods.

Dr. Vaibhav Narwane is working as an Associate Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at K. J. Somaiya College of Engineering, Mumbai. Dr. Vaibhav received his Ph.D. From VJTI, Mumbai from the Production Engineering Department. He holds his ME in CAD/CAM from Shri Guru Gobind Singhji Institute of Engineering and Technology, Nanded. Currently, he and pursuing his Ph.D. He is having thirteen years of teaching and one year of industrial experience. He has few papers in journals and conferences of national and international repute to his credit. His current area of research includes cloud computing, industrial engineering and AI techniques.