Suchismita Satapathy is an associate professor in the School of Mechanical Sciences, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, India. She has published more than 130 articles in national and international journals and conferences. She has also published many books and e-books for academic and research purposes. Her areas of interest include production operation management, operation research, acoustics, sustainability, and supply chain management. She has filled three Indian patents, among them two published. She has more than 15 years of teaching and research experience. She has guided many Ph.D. (three completed, three ongoing), MTech (20), and BTech (49) students. Suchismita has published books such as Production operation management (Stadium Press) and MCDM methods for waste management with CRC Press, Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management with Springer, Soft Computing and Optimization Techniques for Sustainable Agriculture by DEGRUYTER, The PDCA cycle for industrial improvement, applied case studies by Springer and many of her projects are ongoing.

Meghana Mishra is a research scholar in the School of commerce in  KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, India. She has published more than 6 articles in national and international journals , conferences and book chapters.  Her areas of interest include production operation management, Economic study of Agrisector,sustainability,Business process reengineering,ergonomics etc.

Manas R Dash is a research scholar in the School of Mechanical sciences at  KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, India. he has published more than4 articles in national and international journals , conferences and book chapters. His area of research is mining waste management.