Dr. Tushar Madhukar Sonar is a distinguished Ph.D. in Manufacturing Engineering, specializing in Welding, boasting an h-index of 14 and an i10 index of 19. He is a Senior Research Scientist at the Department of Welding Engineering, Institute of Engineering and Technology at South Ural State University in Chelyabinsk, Russia, where he contributes extensively to metallurgy and materials characterization.

His expertise spans various domains within his field, including Welding and joining, additive manufacturing, surfacing, coating, and corrosion. Dr. Sonar is proficient in technical skills, such as welding metallurgy, mechanical testing, corrosion analysis, and mathematical modeling for process optimization. His adeptness in employing various analysis techniques like OM, SEM, TEM, EDS, XRD, and EBSD for microstructural analysis is exemplary.

With eight years of rich professional experience, Dr. Sonar has held significant positions across esteemed institutions globally. His roles as a Senior Research Scientist in Russia, an Assistant Professor of Research in India, and a Technical Manager in the corporate sector reflect his versatile skill set and adaptability across diverse work environments.

His editorial contributions add further depth to his professional portfolio, having served as a Lead Guest Editor, Review Editor, and Editorial Board Member for esteemed journals in materials science and engineering. Dr. Sonar's expertise in research proposal and technical report writing, coupled with his adeptness in project planning and execution, underscores his multifaceted proficiency.

Jinyang Xu

Farrukh Imran Dr. Jinyang Xu, FIAAM, MSCS, is an Associate Professor and a Doctoral Supervisor of Mechanical Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. He was ranked as the World’s Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University for four consecutive years (2021-2024). He received his M.Sc. (2013) in Mechanical Manufacturing & Automation from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, and obtained his Ph.D. (2016) in Mechanical Engineering from Arts et Métiers ParisTech, France. His research interests focus on composites machining, numerical modeling, micro/nano cutting, and surface texturing. He has published over 60 articles in highly-ranked JCR-referenced journals as a first/corresponding author, co-authored more than 80 peer-reviewed papers, and edited 3 monographs, 5 book chapters, 10 int. conf. proceedings & 11 special issues, being cited over 4000 times with an h-index of 36 according to Google Scholar Citations. He has delivered more than 20 Keynote Lectures at various international conferences and has applied over 40 national patents. He is the Founding Editor of the International Journal of Product Sound Quality (IJPSQ) and holds the Editor-in-Chief positions of Journal of Coating Science and Technology (JCST), and International Journal of Precision Technology (IJPTech). He serves as an Associate Editor for esteemed journals such as Proc. IMechE Part E – J. Process. Mech. Eng. (SCIE/EI), Simulation - Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International (SCIE/EI), and Frontiers in Materials (SCIE/EI). Moreover, he is on the Editorial Board of several SCI journals, including Green Materials, Journal of Superhard Materials, Coatings, Lubricants, etc. He holds over 800 peer reviews and over 100 editor records for various international journals including IJMTM, JMPT, IJAMT, IJMS, COST, WEAR, etc., verified by the Web of Science (WOS) (https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/rid/G-8731-2011). He is the General Chair of the 2nd and 3rd International Conference on New Materials, Machinery and Vehicle Engineering (NMMVE2023/2024). He has been invited as Keynote/Invited Speakers, Section Chairs, and TPC members for a number of international conference series (e.g., APMAS, DSMIE, ICMEM, ICMTM, ICMSOA, ICEM, ICMD, ICMAT, NMMVE, etc.) with themes in materials science and manufacturing processes. He has presided and participated in more than 20 national and provincial projects including the NSFC grants, National Science and Technology Major Project, National Key Research and Development Program, and Intergovernmental Scientific and Technological Cooperation Project, as well as a number of industrial projects. For his notable research in the field of Materials Processing & Manufacturing, he was honored with the prestigious IAAM Scientist Medal of the year 2020, and received the Best Paper Awards at the NMMVE2024 (July 19-21, 2024, Dalian, China), CMAMT2023 (August 2-4, 2023, Shenyang, China), the NMMVE2023 (June 2-4, 2023, Guiyang, China), the NMMVE2022 (March 18-20, 2022, Guilin, China), the CJUMP2017 (November 19-21, 2017, Shanghai, China) and the ISGMA2015 (June 23-27, 2015, Qingdao, China) conferences. He has been the recipient of several awards, including the First Prize of the 5th National Blended Teaching Design Innovation Competition for Universities (2023), the First Prize of the Blended Teaching Design Innovation Competition of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2023), Wiley 2020-2021 Top Cited Author Award (Wiley, 2022), the Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing Award (Elsevier, 2016 & 2018), the Nominee of the Pierre Bézier Doctoral Dissertation Award (2016), the CSC Government Scholarship (2013), the Excellent Master Thesis Award of Shanghai Municipality (2013), the Excellent Graduate Award of Shanghai Municipality (2013), and the National Graduate Scholarship of China (2012).