Rakesh Kumar PhandenRakesh Kumar Phanden completed his B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from the U.P. Technical University, Lucknow, India and M.Tech. in Integrated Product Design and Manufacturing from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, G.J.U. of Science and Tehnology, Hisar, India. He completed his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, India in 2012. He has done his post decorate from Cranfield University UK. He is currently working as Sessional Academic with Institute of Innovation, Science and Sustainability, Federation University Australia, VIC, Australia and as Professor with Sat Kabir Institute of Technology & Management, Bahadurgarh, Haryana, India. He is also associated with quality assurance department of Institute of Health & Management, North Melbourne VIC, Australia. He has chaired many technical sessions in conferences and reviewed articles for many SCI and Scopus indexed international journals of repute. He has organized various international conferences namely ICNDME 2014, FLAME 2018, FLAME 2020, FLUTE 2021, FLUTE 2023 and FLAME 2022 in the capacity of organizing secretory. He has fifteen years of teaching experience at private and government institutes and universities in India and abroad. He has contributed more than 100 papers at the national/international levels including SCI journals. His current areas of interest include nature inspired optimization algorithms for various mechanical engineering problems, cyber-physical systems, energy-aware modelling of systems, MEMS, Microfluidic Devices, Micromanufacturing, manufacturing systems, production scheduling, integration of process planning and scheduling and product design and manufacturing, industrial production, welding techniques. He has received International Travel Grant from DST to visit the USA and he has visited London, Singapore, Turkey, Dubai, and many African countries for various research work in collaboration with Amity University. Read More Read Less