Dr. Snehashish Chakraverty is a Senior Professor in the Department of Mathematics (Applied Mathematics Group), National Institute of Technology Rourkela, with over 30 years of teaching and research experience. A gold medalist from the University of Roorkee (now IIT Roorkee), he earned his Ph.D. from IIT Roorkee and completed post-doctoral work at the University of Southampton (UK) and Concordia University (Canada). He has also served as a visiting professor in Canada and South Africa. Dr. Chakraverty has authored/edited 38 books and published over 495 research papers.
His research spans differential equations (ordinary, partial, fractional), numerical and computational methods, structural and fluid dynamics, uncertainty modeling, and soft computing techniques. He has guided 27 Ph.D. scholars, with 10 currently under his supervision. He has led 16 funded research projects and hosted international researchers through prestigious fellowships. Recognized in the top 2% of scientists globally (Stanford-Elsevier list, 2020-2024), he has received numerous awards including the CSIR Young Scientist Award, BOYSCAST Fellowship, INSA Bilateral Exchange, and IOP Top Cited Paper Awards. He is Chief Editor of International Journal of Fuzzy Computation and Modelling and serves on several international editorial boards. Dr.
Srinivas Suripeddi is a distinguished academician and researcher in Applied Mathematics, currently serving as Professor (Higher Academic Grade) at the Department of Mathematics, School of Advanced Sciences, VIT-AP University, Amaravati. He earned his Ph.D. in Fluid Dynamics from NIT Warangal in 1992 under the guidance of the late Prof. N.Ch. Pattabhi Ramacharyulu. With over three decades of teaching and research experience, Prof.
Srinivas has published more than 110 papers in reputed national and international journals. His primary research interests include physiological fluid dynamics, magnetohydrodynamics, nanofluid flows, and heat and mass transfer. Dr. Suripeddi holds two patents and has delivered numerous invited talks and chaired sessions at prestigious conferences. He continues to play a key role in mentoring researchers and contributing to scientific advancements in mathematical modeling and applied sciences. Dr. Karunakar Perumandla is currently serving as an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at VIT-AP University, Amaravathi. He obtained his Ph.
D. in Mathematics from the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, focusing on shallow water wave equations, fuzzy and interval analysis, and numerical methods. He holds an M.Sc. in Mathematics from NIT Warangal and a B.Ed. in Mathematics. With over 12 years of teaching experience, Dr.
Karunakar has held academic positions at institutions such as Anurag University, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, and Annamacharya Institute of Technology and Science. He has also been a visiting faculty member at IIIT Vadodara. Dr. Karunakar has published extensively, including multiple book chapters, and co-authored books such as Wave Dynamics (World Scientific) and Advanced Numerical and Semi Analytical Methods for Differential Equations (Wiley). His research explores fuzzy modeling, fractional differential equations, wave dynamics, and computational fluid mechanics. He received the BRNS-DAE scholarship from the Government of India and the Prathibha Puraskar Award for academic excellence. Dr. Karunakar's ongoing research contributes to the advancement of mathematical modeling under uncertainty and computational techniques in applied sciences.