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Sanjiv Narula: Sanjiv Narula is a research scholar in Industry 4.0 and strategic quality and operational excellence with 22 years of experience in the automobile industry. He is a Mechanical Engineer with Master of Business Administration and is a Certified Quality System and Supplier Quality Auditor. He is a subject matter expert in Hoshin Kanri, New Product Development, Global Supplier Development, Engineering Change Management, Risk Management Audit, Regulatory Compliance, Project Management, QC Circles and Supplier Quality Management. He has accumulated hands-on experience in implementing Lean 4.0, Quality 4.0, Digitization, TPM, TQM, QCC, Six Sigma and Benchmarking best practices.

Dr. Surya Prakash: Dr. Surya Prakash is an Assistant professor, School of Engg., BML Munjal University. He received his PhD from Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur. Prior to joining BMU, he had worked as an Assistant Professor for NorthCap University Gurgaon (formerly ITM University) and UPTU, Lucknow. His research focuses on Robust Optimization, Supply Chain Network Design, Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing, Industry 4.0 and so on. Dr. Surya has published research papers in Annals of OR, EJOR, SCM Int. Journal, Benchmarking, Modeling in Management and so on. Dr. Surya also presented his research papers at various international conferences organized at NUS Singapore, DTU Delhi, IIT Guwahati, IIIE Udaipur, MNIT Jaipur and so on. He has pronounced interest in entrepreneurship and founded portal and mentored the start-up VDT Pipeline Integrity Solutions.

Dr. Maheshwar Dwivedy: Dr. Maheshwar Dwivedy is an Associate professor, School of Engg., BML Munjal University. He received his BTech in mechanical engineering from CET, Bhubaneswar in 1999, MTech in production engineering from NIT, Rourkela in 2005 and a PhD in industrial engineering from BITS, Pilani in 2014. His research focuses on sustainability studies through systems approaches such as life-cycle assessment to model technological progress and product diffusion. Dr. Dwivedy is interested in the life cycle of electronic goods and ultimately the waste generated with the special focus on the environmental benefits and economic potential of a circular and green economy.

Dr. Vishal Talwar: Dr. Vishal Talwar is the Dean – School of Management, BML Munjal University. Prior to Joining BMU, he was the Head of Campus (Mumbai) and Assistant Dean of S.P. Jain School of Global Management – Dubai, Mumbai, Singapore and Sydney. Dr. Talwar had spent close to 12 years in the United Kingdom and returned to India in 2013 as Dean JRE School of Management, an Educomp Raffles Joint Venture. He has a PhD from Manchester Business School where he was awarded a doctoral scholarship by the Shell Oil Company.

Surendra Prasad Tiwari: Surendra is a PhD research scholar in TQM and holds MS-TQM (Gold Medalist), MBA (Operations), MSC (M & P), PGSMA (SQC&OR-ISI), PGDCA and MBB (Lean-Six Sigma). He is also a qualified lead auditor for QMS and Assessor for EFQM and ZED business excellence models. His 30 years of diverse experience includes 14 years working in the industries at various management positions and 16 years in training and consultancy. He has conducted over 12,000 h of classroom trainings (through public and in-house courses in India, Europe, Africa and Middle East Asian countries) covering over 700 training programs, 650 organizations in various sectors and has trained over 60 Master Black Belts, 600 black belts, 1,500 green belts, 400 champions and over 3,000 executives on Quality Engineering, Process Improvement, core tools and advanced Statistical tools and so on. He has supported and mentored over 2000 improvement projects related to Lean, TPM, Six Sigma, sustainability and problem-solving.