Dr. J Maiti, PhD, Professor, Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India has more than fifteen years of teaching, research and consulting experience on statistical modeling of production and service systems in the areas of Quality Management, Safety Management, Work System Design, Asset Management and Healthcare Management. A recipient of Career Award for Young Teachers from AICTE, and Young Scientist Project from DST, he has published more than 70 papers in international and national journals of repute and more than 30 papers in conference proceedings. Till date, he has supervised 9 PhD candidates to successful completion and currently supervising 8 PhD research candidates. He has been executing a number of Industry-sponsored consulting and Government-funded research projects. He has organized 13 training programmes and short-term courses for industry participants. Prof Maiti has been pursuing research on the applications of multivariate statistical modeling since 1995. He excels in teaching basic statistics, multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA), multiple and multivariate regression, principal component analysis (PCA), factor analysis, path modeling, structural equation modeling (SEM), cluster analysis, correspondence analysis, discriminant analysis, and logistic regression. A 42 lecture series on "Applied Multivariate Statistical Modeling" of Prof Maiti is available through youtube uploaded by NPTEL (national programme on technology enhanced learning). The current profile of Prof Maiti can be found at IIT Kharagpur website.

Dr. Jitendra Kumar Jha is an Assistant Professor in the department of Industrial & Systems Engineering at IIT Kharagpur since July 2010. He obtained his PhD from IIT Kanpur where he worked in the area of Supply Chain Management. He graduated in Production Engineering from BIT Sindri and completed his MTech in Industrial Management from IIT (BHU) Varanasi. He has received several scholarships and awards from DRPG IIT Kanpur, BITSAA of North America, SJ Jindal Trust New Delhi, etc. His main areas of teaching and research include Operations Research, Statistical Decision Modeling, Facility Planning, Supply Chain Management and Inventory Control. He published/presented thirteen papers in international journals and conferences, and his publications appeared in Applied Mathematical Modelling, Computers & Industrial Engineering, International Journal of Production Research and Journal of Manufacturing Systems. He has been associated with five projects from various sponsoring agencies. He organized two short-term courses on Facility Planning and Service Science. The current profile of Prof Jha can be found at IIT Kharagpur website.

Dr. Sri Krishna Kumar joined IIT Kharagpur in 2013 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering. He received his PhD from Wolfson School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at Loughborough University, UK in the area of virtual enterprise collaboration. His expertise includes, Supply Chain Management, Port Logistics, Knowledge Management, Game Theory and Optimization and published few good articles in the journal like International Journal of Production Research, Computers in Industry, Computers &Industrial Engineering and Journal of Engineering Manufacture. The current profile of Prof Kumar can be found at IIT Kharagpur website.