Jinoop Arackal Narayanan is currently serving as Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at the School of Computing, Engineering & Digital Technologies, Teesside University, UK. Prior to this role, he held positions as a research fellow in additive manufacturing at the Welding and Additive Manufacturing Centre, Cranfield University, UK, and as an industrial postdoctoral researcher at the Multiscale Additive Manufacturing Lab, University of Waterloo, Canada. He also worked as a DAE Research Fellow at the Laser Additive Manufacturing Laboratory at Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology (RRCAT), Indore, India. His research interests include additive manufacturing, laser surface engineering, material characterization, laser material processing, and sustainable manufacturing. He has more than 80 publications including journal papers in peer-reviewed international journals, book chapters, and international and national conference papers/presentations.

Kanmani Subbu Subbian is working as Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Palakkad, India. After completing his Doctorate from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India, he worked as Assistant Professor at the National Institute of Technology Warangal, India, for over four years. His area of expertise includes micromanufacturing, laser surface processing, composite fabrication and machining, and additive manufacturing. He has published more than 95 international journal publications and international conferences. He has executed projects from SERB-DST and CSR. He is a member of IEI, Laser Association, and ISME. He has conducted two GIAN workshops, two STTPs, one ATAL program, and one faculty development program.