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Debanik Roy, Gold Medalist in B.Engg. & M.Tech., has nearly 35 years of research experience in the domain of Robotics, Automation, Artificial Intelligence & Intelligent Manufacturing Systems. Since 1999, Dr. Roy has been associated with the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), Govt. of India. He was with the Robotics division of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai from 1999 to 2008 and headed Engineering Science committee of Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences from 2009 to 2017. At present, Dr. Roy is associated with Division of Remote Handling & Robotics at BARC. He is also serving as an Adjunct Professor of Homi Bhabha National Institute, DAE. His research interest comprises in the domain of robot grippers, gripper sensors, flexible manipulator, bio-inspired robotics, soft robotics, underwater robotics, tele-manipulation and web-mediated robotics. Dr Roy received DAE Award for Excellence in Science & Technology in 2014, membership of DST, Govt of India & Lifetime Achievement award from Marquis in 2018. He has authored 3 books, 16 book-chapters on robotics and over 340 technical papers till date, published in referred journals, book chapters and conference proceedings.

S. Chakraverty has almost 30 years of experience as a researcher and teacher. Presently, he is working in the Department of Mathematics (Applied Mathematics Group), National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Odisha as a Senior Professor (Higher Administrative Grade). His present research area includes Differential Equations (Ordinary, Partial and Fractional), Numerical Analysis and Computational Methods, Structural Dynamics (FGM, Nano) and Fluid Dynamics, Mathematical and Uncertainty Modeling, Soft Computing and Machine Intelligence (Artificial Neural Network, Fuzzy, Interval and Affine Computations).