Engineering Reliability and Risk Assessment

Dr. Garg is Associate Professor of Mathematics at Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala, Punjab, India. He is the recipient of the Obada-Prize 2022 – Young Distinguished Researchers. He is also the recipient of the Top-Cited paper by an India-based author (2015 – 2019) from Elsevier Publisher. He also serves as an advisory board member of the Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN). Dr. Garg's research interests include computational intelligence, multi-criteria decision making, evolutionary algorithms, reliability analysis, expert systems, and decision support systems, computing with words, and soft computing. He has authored more than 400 papers published in refereed international journals. He has also authored seven book chapters. He has also edited 8 books from Elsevier, Springer, and other publishers. Dr. Garg also serves on editorial boards of several leading international journals, this includes the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Computational and Cognitive Engineering. He is also the Associate Editor of IEEE Transaction of Fuzzy Systems, Soft Computing, Alexandria Engineering Journal, Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, Complex and Intelligent Systems, Journal of Industrial & Management Optimization, and CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology. Prof. Mangey Ram received the Ph.D. degree major in Mathematics and minor in Computer Science from G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, India. He has been a Faculty Member for around fourteen years and has taught several core courses in pure and applied mathematics at undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctorate levels. He is currently the Research Professor at Graphic Era (Deemed to be University), Dehradun, India & Visiting Professor at Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, Saint Petersburg, Russia. Before joining the Graphic Era, he was a Deputy Manager (Probationary Officer) with Syndicate Bank for a short period.