Laser Applications in Manufacturing (ePub)

focuses on how asset information and artificial intelligence can considerably improve asset performance. His primary research interests are reliability engineering, industry 4.0 for SMEs, manufacturing analytics, and operations management.

Amit has over 20 papers published in reputed academic journals and conferences. Many of these papers appeared in leading engineering and management journals such as Reliability Engineering and Systems Safety, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, and the Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing. In 2011, he received a Teaching Assistant Fellowship from the Ministry of Human Resource Development of India; in 2018, he received a Visiting Researcher Grant from the Royal Academy of Engineering London; and in 2019, he won the Best Paper Award at the Int. Conf. on Precision, Meso, Micro, and Nano Engineering. Through research and consulting projects, he actively engages with the industry viz. British Telecommunications, UK. He is the Guest Associate Editor of the Life Cycle Engineering speciality section of Frontiers in Manufacturing Technology. He is also associated with CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group as a Series Editor. He is a member of the international advisory board of conferences and has chaired various sessions. He has also given over a dozen invited talks at universities and faculty development programmes of national and international stature, including the University of Johannesburg, NIT Bhopal, etc. He is a member of the Prognostics and Health Management Society, USA.

He also serves as the Assistant Dean - Research for Alliance School of Business.

Sunil Pathak was awarded his PhD (2016) in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Indore (MP) India. He is currently a researcher under MSCA-IV International Mobility at HiLASE Centre, Institute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic. He has conducted extensive research on the advanced finishing of gears. Presently he has been working on laser shock peening of intricately shaped geometries, nanomaterials synthesis by electrical discharge machining (EDM) and improving the cylindrical gear tooth profile by electrochemical machining (ECM).