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Aditya Satish Rane is an accomplished researcher and engineer pursuing his Doctor of Philosophy in Industrial Engineering and Management at Oklahoma State University. He recently completed his Master of Science in Industrial Engineering & Management (2022-2023) with a major in Supply Chain and Logistics and a minor in Business Analytics and Data Science. Before his doctoral studies, Rane obtained his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Mumbai, India (2015-2018) and an Associate of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Maharashtra State Board of Technical Education, India (2012-2015). Rane's professional journey includes holding positions such as Junior Engineer at Radcorp's Fire and Safety Pvt Ltd (2020-2021), working in Supply Chain Management at ImpelPro SCM Solutions Pvt Ltd. (2019-2020), serving as a Logistics Intern at TSM Project Logistics Pvt ltd. (2018), and being a Maintenance Engineer Trainee at Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (2017). His research interests span various domains, including surrogate-assisted multi-objective Bayesian optimization, rheological design of bioinks, fused filament fabrication parameters for enhanced specific fracture energy in fiber-reinforced polymer components, the impact of Industry 4.0 on supply chain management, and developing adaptive experimentation model for smart manufacturing.

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Abhishek Kumar is currently working as a Graduate Assistant (Ph.D. Scholar) in the J. Mike Walker ’66 Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University, College Station. He received his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering (2023) from the University of California Merced, USA, M.Tech. in Design Engineering (2016) from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, and a Bachelor of Engineering degree (honors) in Mechanical Engineering (2014) from Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya, Bhopal. He has worked as an Assistant Professor at Jabalpur Engineering College, Jabalpur (2018-2020), Galgotias University, Greater Noida (2017), and Parul University, Vadodara (2016–2017). He was a summer visiting researcher at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (2018). He has experience of more than eight years as an Assistant Professor and a Graduate Student Researcher working with tribological systems, and their surface and wear characterization. He has completed more than ten research projects with reputed industrial partners such as Chevron Corporation, SpaceX, Chevron-Phillips, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, etc., and academic collaborators such as the National University of Singapore, the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, California State University Chico, Illinois State University Normal, etc.