Special Issue on Innovations in Technology, Management & Design for Achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): ICSDG 2020

"Special Issue on Innovations in Technology, Management & Design for Achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): ICSDG 2020." IETE Journal of Research, 67(5), pp. 585–586

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Jyoti Prakash Naidu

Prakash Naidu (PhD, University of Toronto; MTech, IIT Madras; PGDB Bangalore) is the Dean (Research and Development) at JK Lakshmipat University (JKLU), Jaipur, India. He has extensive experience in both industrial R&D and academia, with trans-disciplinary worldwide experience and expertise. He has worked for or been affiliated with leading institutions, laboratories, and industry, as well as start-ups and SMEs, in the United Kingdom (University College London, University of Derby), the United States (MIT-Spin-off Companies at Boston, University of Phoenix- Arizona), Canada (University of Toronto and Spin-offs, Meritus University, Carleton University), and India (Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics:CAIR-DRDO under late Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems: IRIS, HMT, VTU, MSRUAS, Presidency) in different capacities ranging from R&D Engineer to HOD, Director, Dean, Advisor.

Several awards and honours have been bestowed upon him, including the Canadian Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship (1992-96), the Defence Technology Spin-off Award received from the honourable Prime Minister of India as Project Director of IRIS (2005), and National Design Awards (Senior-2003, Student-1979) from the National Design and Research Forum, Institution of Engineers, India; and the Canadian Star of the Global Health Award (2013) from Grand Challenges Canada funded by the Government of Canada for Bold Ideas.

Dr Naidu is the originator of the field of Design for Automation as an extension of the Axiomatic Design Theory established at MIT. His research interests include design theory and methodology with applications for design of intelligent systems, design for patentability and sustainability in the fields of medical devices, biotechnology, advanced manufacturing, mechatronics, robotics, automation, virtual reality, business methods and other areas overlapping with multi-disciplinary aspects of humanities and social sciences such as cyber-physical-social systems.

Dr Naidu has vast hands-on design, development, and product realization experience ranging from manufacturing systems for specialized aerospace components to biomedical devices with several patents issued or under process; one of his major achievements was the development of pioneering DNA Arraying System for biomedical applications culminating in sale of technology to industry for considerable fees and royalty. He is a licensed member of the Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario, Canada with Certificate of Authorization as a Consultant. He is also member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). He is Member of the Education Committee of the PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PHDCC). Email: [email protected]

Gustavo Sanchez

Gustavo Sanchez has 25 years of experience as a consultant, academician and researcher in the fields of control systems, optimization, machine learning, automation and data science, trying to strike a balance between the generation of new theoretical results and the application to solve practical problems. He received the BS degree in 1994 from the University of Metz, France, MS from the University of Nancy, France and the PhD degree from Simon Bolivar University, Venezuela, in 2011 graduating with honours. As industrial experience, he has worked as an automation engineer for several companies. He has published 31 research papers and articles in peer- reviewed journals and conference proceedings. In 2010, he was the first Latin American researcher to be honoured with the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Best Paper Award. In 2015, he was invited by University of Maryland, in USA, to deliver a program on Machine Learning applications to solve industrial problems. Currently, he is professor at JK Lakshmipat University, Jaipur, India, and his research interests include automation, IoT, data science, remote sensing and cyber-physical-social systems. Email: [email protected].