Anand. N is a researcher and a faculty with over 15 years of experience in teaching and research in the field of Mechanical Engineering. He is currently affiliated with the University of Technology and Applied Sciences (UTAS), Sultanate of Oman. His research primarily focuses on magnesium metal matrix composites, advanced composite materials, tribology, wear behavior of materials, and microstructural characterization of engineering materials. His work particularly emphasizes the development and analysis of lightweight metal matrix composites for improved mechanical and tribological performance in engineering applications.

Senthil Kumaran Selvaraj is currently working as Professor, Department of Manufacturing Engineering, School of Mechanical Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology-VIT University, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India. He was previously working as a Head of the Department in Mechanical Engineering and as the Research Director at RVS Educational Trust’s Group of Institutions, Dindigul, India. He has been working for more than 15 years in various Engineering Institutions. He has guided various under-graduate, post-graduate students, and PhD research scholars supervised in quality improvement of the process in a different field such as the design of experiments, friction welding, tribology, non-traditional machining process, and composite materials. He has completed his research work in Friction welding process improvement at the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, and Tamil Nadu. His research interests in Advance solid-state welding process, Materials and Metallurgy, Composite materials and Quality Management, Unconventional machining process, Optimization, Material characterization and Mechanical Behavior of Material. He has published more than 211 International reputed Journals and conferences and he has written 14 different book chapters in the area of Nanotechnology, Nanocosmetics, Corrosion, Total Quality Management and Materials Science.