Abul Kalam Author & Editor

Dr. Niraj Kumar is currently a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, at Amity University, Noida, India. He obtained his Ph.D. from NIT, Hamirpur (H.P.). He has teaching and research experience of over 15 years. He has published papers in reputed international/national journals/conferences and also contributed chapters in many books. He has almost seven years of industrial experience in various organizations and has received much recognition and appreciation. Presently, he is a reviewer for multiple international SCI listed journals and member of the peer-reviewing committee for the evaluation of scientific projects for different countries. Dr. K. Mathiyazhagan is working as a chairperson and Associate Professor at the Research Centre, Thaigarajar School of Management, Madurai, Tamilnadu, India. He is an associate editor in Management Decision (Emerald) impact factor 4.9 and Environment, Development and Sustainability Journal – Springer with an impact factor of 3.2 and has more than 3500 research citations. Editing special issues in Journal of Business Logistics (JBL), International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management (IJPDLM), International Journal of Logistics Management (IJLM), Sustainable Production and Consumption (Elsevier), Socio-Economic Planning Science (Elsevier). His publications are in IJPE, IJPR, PPC, IEEE TEM, JCP, RCR, IJAMT etc. Also, he is an editorial member in many reputed journals. One of his papers was awarded as Excellence Citation Award by Emerald Publisher Ltd. In addition, he is editing international books on Blockchain & Lean-Green & Society 4.0 in Elsevier, Taylor & Francis, Springer publishers. He is a visiting faculty at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy. Active reviewer of more than thirty reputed international journals and organized two international conferences and workshops. Received best reviewer certificate from reputed journals. He supervised more than 10 undergraduate and 3 postgraduate and 3 PhD scholars. Edited many international conference proceedings in springer's publisher. His research interests include Green Supply Chain Management; Sustainable Supply Chain Management; Multi-Criteria Decision Making; Third Party Logistic Provider; Sustainable Lean Manufacturing, Public Distribution System; Lean Six Sigma. He is has more than 10 years of research and teaching experience. Dr. V. Raja Sreedharan is an Assistant Professor in the Rabat Business School, Université Internationale de Rabat, Morocco. Before joining the Rabat Business School he worked in the Amrita School of Business, Kochi, India. He undertook his doctoral research at the Department of Industrial Engineering, Anna University, and his Ph.D. was in the field of Lean Six Sigma. Before joining Amrita School of Business, he has worked as a faculty member at Anna University. As faculty, he taught Manufacturing System and Processes, Facilities Planning and Layout, Business Research Methods, Manufacturing Technology, and Data Analytics for both the Masters and Undergraduate programs. He has garnered corporate exposure working with Apollo Hospital as an external auditor for 5S implementation. He has attended international conferences and has published articles on Lean Six Sigma, MCDM Approach, and Structural Equation Modelling. His current research interests are centred in the field of Lean services, Healthcare Operations and Industrial 4.0. Dr. Md. Abul Kalam is a full professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, the University of Malaya. His research specialization is on the Internal-combustion engine, Biodiesel/Biofuel, Lubricant testing, and Engine Tribology. Prof Kalam obtained his undergraduate degree from Bangladesh Institute of Technology (B.I.T) Khulna, and his Masters and Ph.D. from University of Malaya, Malaysia. Prof Kalam has been listed as “Highly Cited Researcher in the Year” in 2017, 2018 and 2019 and ranks among the top 1% of researchers for the most cited documents in the area of engineering by Web of Science and Clarivate Analytics. He received the ‘University of Malaya Excellence Award 2017’ for outstanding achievement in the category of “Academic Staff with Most Highly Cited Paper (Sciences) as well as Excellence Service award in 2018. He received Malaysia's research star award in 2018 and again in 2019. He was appointed as the Head of Bioresources and Fuel Technology under the Centre for Energy Sciences (CES) in 2010.