Dr. Vilas R. Kalamkar is a professor and head of mechanical engineering department of Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, India. He received his PhD in aerodynamics from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.  His areas of research are CFD and turbo machinery. He has more than 20 years of teaching experience. Apart from several research articles in journals and conference proceedings, he has also filed 2 patents. He has undertaken 4 research projects and many consultancy projects. He was invited to deliver keynote lectures at various international conferences in places like Korea, Malaysia and Dubai. He was conferred with the best teacher award, research fellowships and best paper award for his contribution in teaching and research. 

Dr. Katarina Monkova is a full professor of Faculty of Manufacturing Technologies with the seat in Presov, Slovakia. She is a scientific researcher at technical university with pedagogical activities like computer-aided technical devices design, analysis and simulation, cellular material. She has done PhD in manufacturing technologies and metallurgy. She has more than 300 publications with 20 invited presentations at international conferences. She is also a leader of 7 national scientific-research projects and 1 international project and member of more than 20 national projects with educational and scientific grants. She is a recipient of various awards like Rector's award and Dean’s Award.