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Areas of Interest: Mathematical modelling of real world problems Inventory and Supply chain management, stochastic optimization

Brief Profile: Dr. Mishra has received her Ph. D degree in year 2010 in applied Mathematics and since then she is associated with mathematics department of the school of technology at Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University. She also holds master degree in business administration (MBA) with specialization in operations management. Her core research area is study and analysis of real world problems mathematically. This includes formulation, analysis and optimization of the problem using different optimization techniques. She has 30 publications on her name in various peer reviewed journals. She has also contributed 8 chapters in edited books and presented 6 papers at India and abroad. She has also delivered lectures at national and international forums. Presently, 1 student has awarded Ph.D under her guidance whereas 2 more are in the process. Currently, she is also working with SAC - ISRO under "integrated studies of Himalayan Cryosphere" for a collaborative project for ship route optimization in sea ice areas.

Areas of Interest: Elasticity, Plasticity, and Creep, Functionally Graded Materials, Fuzzy Sets and their Extensions, Development of Novel Numerical Methods, Fixed Point Iteration Methods.

Brief Profile: Dr. Manoj Sahni is working in the Department of Mathematics at PDEU (Formerly PDPU) for more than ten years. He has done M.Sc. from Dayalbagh Educational Institute Agra (Deemed University), M.Phil. Mathematics from IIT Roorkee and Ph.D. Mathematics from Jaypee Institute of Information Technology (JIIT), Noida. He has more than 19 years of teaching and research experience. He has published more than 100 research papers in International peer-reviewed Journals, Conferences, and Book Chapters. He is the president of the Forum for Interdisciplinary Mathematics in the Gujarat Chapter and Joint Secretary at all Indian Levels. He is a Life Member of various National and International Societies such as the American Mathematical Society, IEEE, SIAM, MAA, Indian Science Congress, SFA, INSIS, ams, FIM, IAENG, etc. He has guided three Ph.D. students and three are working under him. He is working on a project sponsored by the Gujarat Council on Science and Technology (GUJCOST).

Areas of Interest: Oceanography, Numerical ocean modelling, data assimilation, Empirical Orthogonal Functions (EOF) Analysis, sea-ice dynamics, polar studies.

Brief Profile: Dr. Bhasha Vachharajani is working as an assistant professor at PDPU, since June 2013. She has completed her Ph.D. in Mathematics from the School of Sciences, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad in May 2013. She has pursued M.Sc. and M.Phil. from the same university. Prior to joining PDPU, she worked as a J.R.F. for 5 years at Space Applications Centre, ISRO. Her research there was related to analyses of ocean model outputs, and investigations of thermocline variability using the model. She has ten years of research experience and has published eight research papers in peer reviewed journals, and has written two book chapters. Besides these papers, she has contributed in preparing two scientific reports and has presented her work in three national and six international conferences. She has worked on a collaborative research project SCATSAT-I, with SAC, ISRO and is currently involved in two other projects- SAMUDRA and OCEANSAT-3. She has been guiding two students for Ph.D.

Areas of Interest: Computational Neuroscience, Biomathematics, calcium signalling in nerve cells, Fractional Differential Equations and its Applications in Biology, Study of Biological Problems under Fuzzy environment. Fuzzy Clustering of Biological Sequence.

Brief Profile: Dr. Brajesh Kumar Jha obtain Ph.D. degree from S. V. National Institute of Technology, Surat in 2013. He has done Master of Mathematics (M.Sc) from Jiwaji University, Gwalior in 2007. He has published around 50 research papers in various reputed journals, conference proceedings and Book chapters. Currently 3 students are pursuing PhD under his guidance. 2 Students are awarded PhD under his guidance.

Areas of Interest: Solid Earth (Geophysics), Computational Seismology, Fluid flow through porous media, Drilling and Well Control, Reservoir Simulation and Modelling, Seismic Hazard Assessment, Seismic Microzonation, Numerical Solutions in Geophysical Problems, Geostatistics, Applied, and Engineering Mathematics. List of Scholars: 1. Mr. Mohatsim Mahetaji (Roll No- 19RPE005) Research area: Wellbore stability Analysis 2. Mr. Vishal Chauhan (Roll No:20RPE003) Research Area: Reservoir Simulation and Modeling.

Brief Profile: Dr. Jwngsar Brahma, joined the University in July 2009 and is working as an Assistant Professor. Prior to joining the University, he worked as a Seismological trainee at Institute of Seismological Research (ISR), Gandhinagar. During his tenure at ISR as a trainee, he involved in various projects such as LNG- GSPC at Mundra for site investigation, real-time earthquake monitoring, site investigation of Gandhinagar City etc. His research interest falls in the large domain of Applied Geophysics, Computational Seismology, Seismic Microzonation, Drilling Engineering, Mathematical Modelling & Simulation. Research scholars and Post Graduate & Under Graduate students are working under his supervisor in the area of Drilling & Well Control in Geomecahnics, Reservoir Simulation and Modeling etc. He was/is involved in the teaching of courses such as Geostatistics (theory/Lab), Advanced Drilling & Well Control, Exploration Geophysics, Numerical and Statistical Methods, Geostatistics, Engineering Mathematics, Applied Mathematics. He has been awarded (Co-PI) with Ministry of Earth Science (MoES) funded project to carry out research works. He was awarded Young Scientist Award (Energy Engineering Category) in 2019 by Govt. of India (IISF-2019) at Kolkata for his contribution in energy engineering. He developed a hybrid model for the prediction of pore pressure to design a safe and cost effective well for extraction of hydrocarbon from deeper reservoir in Tripura.

Areas of Interest: Algebraic Coding Theory, Number Theory, Combinatorial Coding Theory

Brief Profile: Dr. Ankur is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics, School of Technology at PDEU, since November 17, 2022. Prior to joining PDEU he has worked as an Assistant Professor at VIT-AP University. He did Ph.D. from IIT Dhanbad and specialized in Algebra and Number Theory, and he has completed his M. Sc. from IIT Madras. He has published some quality research papers in algebraic coding theory.

Areas of Interest: Fluid Mechanics, Mathematical Modelling, non-Newtonian Fluids, Heat Transfer.

Brief Profile: Dr. Ankush Raje is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics, School of Technology, PDEU Gandhinagar since January 2019. Ankush completed his PhD in July 2019 from the Department of Mathematics, Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology(VNIT), Nagpur. He completed the master's degree in Mathematics in 2014 from VNIT Nagpur. Ankush is working in the research areas of fluid dynamics, non-Newtonian fluid and heat transfer. During his tenure of doctoral degree, he worked as JRF and SRF in a research project funded by NBHM, DAE, Govt. of India. Ankush has published 13 research papers in various International journals and has presented his work in 3 national/international conferences. He is supervisor of one PhD student at PDEU. He is collaborating with various national and international researchers working in the areas of CFD, heat transfer, engineering and applied mathematics. Dr. Ankush is keen in collaborating with the various regimes of engineering and science where the role of applied mathematics is relevant.

Areas of Interest: Boundary Element Method, Fluid Mechanics, Scientific Computing, Water Wave Problems, Coastal Engineering, Renewable Energy, Liquid Sloshing Dynamics.

Brief Profile: Dr. Chandra Shekhar Nishad is working as Assistant Professor at PDEU (Formerly PDPU) Gandhinagar since August 01, 2019. Prior to joining PDEU, he has completed Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from Department of Mathematics, IIT Kharagpur. His main area of research is Boundary Element Method (Theory and Applications). He has two years of teaching experience at NIT Silchar and Meerut College, Meerut respectively. He has published 18 research papers in high quality peer-reviewed international journals. He has received prestigious DAAD scholarship (IIT Master Sandwich Programme) during his M.Tech. programme at IIT Madras. He has done his Master thesis at Institute of Nano-and Microfluidics, Center of Smart Interfaces, TU Darmstadt, Germany. He has secured 1st position in M.Tech. (Industrial Mathematics and Scientific Computing) programme. He has received Prof. Helmut Neunzert Endowment prize for the best academic record in the M.Tech. He has also received Institute Merit Prize and Prof. LVKV Sarma (USA) Prize during M.Tech. Programme at IIT Madras. He is currently guiding one student for PhD thesis.

Areas of Interest: Solution of Einstein’s field equations, application of mathematics in various real-world problems, including environmental science, data science and machine learning

Brief Profile: Dr. Dishant Pandya is working as an Assistant Professor at Pandit Deendayal Energy University, Gandhinagar since 2014. He possessed a strong academic background by securing multiple gold medals in graduation and post-graduation. He has 17 years of experience, consisting of 14 years of academic and 3 years in the diamond industry as a Sr. Scientist. 3 book chapters and 17 publications in various internationally reputed journals and conference proceedings reflect his indulgence in research. A plethora of international/national conferences, workshops/symposia are witnesses to his research presentations. Currently, 4 research scholars are working under his guidance as a part of a collaboration with the department of chemical engineering & the department of physics. Apart from this, he is also mentoring other university students for their graduation and post-graduation projects. Besides, he is also training students not only in document preparation systems such as LaTeX and Markdown, but also in various computational software, including Mathematica and MATLAB.

Areas of Interest: Fluid dynamics/ Magnetohydrodynamics, Numerical methods for solving differential equations arising in boundary layer flow.

Brief Profile: Dr. Ansari specializes in Computational and Applied Mathematics. His research interests are mainly in Hydromagnetic/hydrodynamic fluid flow and heat transfer and analytical and numerical methods for solving complex differential equations and mathematical model equations that arise in the areas of it.

Areas of Interest: Fractional Calculus, Fractional Variational and Optimal Control Problems, Convex Functions

Brief Profile: Dr. Neelam Singha is working as an Assistant Professor at PDPU, since August 2019. She has obtained her Ph.D. in Mathematics from IIT Kharagpur in October 2018. She has also obtained her M.Sc. from Department of Mathematics, IIT Kharagpur. She has pursued B.Sc. (H) Mathematics from Delhi University. Dr. Neelam specializes in Fractional Calculus and its applications to Optimization Problems.

Areas of Interest: Financial Mathematics, Risk Management, Portfolio Management, Fractional Calculus, and Multicriteria Decision Making.

Brief Profile: Kocherlakota Satya Pritam is working as an Assistant Professor at PDPU after submitting his thesis at BITS Pilani. He is a graduate in M.Sc Mathematics from the University of Hyderabad and his research interests include applications of Fractional Calculus in Financial Mathematics, Control Systems and Sustainable Development Goals.

Areas of Interest: Self-centeredness property of various product graphs, their properties, embedding of graphs into self-centered, almost self-centered, and almost peripheral graphs.

Brief Profile: Dr. Priyanka Singh is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics, School of Technology at PDEU since September 19, 2022. She did her PhD from IIT Kharagpur in the year 2020, where her research area was Graph Theory (Theoretical Computer Science). Before that, she finished her master's degree M.Sc. Mathematics (Pure Mathematics) from BHU. She completed her B.Sc. (Gen) with Computer Science from the University of Delhi. Before joining PDEU, she was an Assistant Professor at ITER, Sikhsa 'O' Anusandhan University, Bhubaneswar from November 2020 to September 2022. She has also cleared the GATE exam with AIR - 38.

Areas of Interest: Hydraulics, Open Channel Turbulent Flow, Sediment Transport, Mathematical Modeling of sediment transport, Semi-Analysis Method (Homotopy Analysis Method, Homotopy Peterbution Method), and Numerical Methods for solving differential equations arising in the mathematical modeling of turbulent flow.

Brief Profile: Punit Jain is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics, School of Technology at PDEU. He completed his bachelor's degree in B.Sc (H) Mathematics from the University of Delhi in 2013. After that, he cleared the JAM exam with AIR 137 and went to IIT Kharagpur where he first completed his Master's degree in M.Sc Mathematics. He has completed Ph.D. from the Department of Mathematics, IIT Kharagpur in Dec 2021. In terms of Research work, he has published 6 papers in high-quality peer-review international journals. He worked as a guest faculty in the Department of Mathematics at NIT Kurukshetra for a semester. He joined PDEU on 19th Sept 2022.

Areas of Interest: Distribution Warehouses, Machine Learning, Financial Markets, Statistical modeling and developing forecasting models, Software Reliability,

Brief Profile: Dr. Shobhit has completed his M.Sc. in Mathematics from IIT Kanpur in 2007 and received his Ph.D.in Applied Mathematics from Indian Institute of Technology Dhanbad (ISM Dhanbad) in 2013. He has a total 9 years of teaching and research experience. Prior to joining PDPU, he has worked as a research associate in IIM Ahmedabad in developing Mathematical models of mobile fulfillment system used in distribution warehouses. He has quite a good number of international publications in reputed journals and attended several International/National conferences and workshops in India and abroad. He has reviewed research papers for various national and international journals.

Areas of Interest: Stochastic modelling, Queueing analysis, Reliability & availability analyses of service and fault-tolerant machining systems, Optimal control, Modelling and simulation using heuristics & metaheuristics.

Brief Profile: Dr. Shreekant Varshney is working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics, School of Technology (SoT) at PDEU (Formerly PDPU) since October 10, 2022. Prior joining to PDEU, he has worked for IFHE, Hyderabad. He has completed the Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from the Department of Mathematics, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus. Also, he has cleared CSIR JRF/NET twice with AIR 18 and 67, respectively. In the year 2017, he was appointed as a co-instructor by the Practice School Division, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus and mentored students at IIRS (ISRO), WIHG (DST), and CSIR-IIP in Dehradun. He has published more than 13 research articles in several journal of repute with high impact factor like RESS (Elsevier), QTQM (Taylor & Francis), JCAM (Elsevier), AJSE (Springer), etc. He has presented many research papers at national and international conferences of repute. Moreover, in October 2019, he has been awarded with second prize in a technical writing competition organized by SIAM journal publishing.

Areas of Interest:  Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)  Mathematical Biology  Aortic Dissection and Cardiovascular Flow  Aerosols

Brief Profile: Dr. Vishakha Jadaun earned her Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Delhi, specializing in Lie Group of Transformations and Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) in 2019. Her doctoral work focused on developing invariant solutions for nonlinear PDEs, detailed in her thesis titled "Invariant Solutions for Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations using Lie Symmetry Analysis." Prior to her PhD, she excelled academically, earning an M.Sc. in Mathematics from Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Agra, where she graduated as a topper. Her educational journey also includes a B.Sc. in Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry with a commendable academic record. As a Senior Research Associate at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, she significantly contributed to the IITD-AIIMS MIFIRP Project, “Applying statistical learning and modeling techniques to CT imaging for predicting the growth of Stanford Type B Aortic Dissection.” Before joining as an Assistant Professor at PDEU on Jan 1st, 2024, her career encompassed various teaching roles, including Assistant Professor at Malla Reddy University, Hyderabad, and visiting faculty at the University of Delhi, Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for Women & Netaji Subhas University of Technology and University, New Delhi. She remains actively engaged in research, boasting a notable track record of publications and contributions to mathematical sciences, with expertise in statistical and mathematical software, scripting languages, and data visualization tools. As a reviewer for prestigious journals, she continues to make valuable contributions to the academic community.

Areas of Interest: mathematical modeling, optimization, AIML

Brief Profile: Dr. Isha Talati is working as an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics at Pandit Deendayal Energy University. Her research publications appear in the different international peer-reviewed journals, which are indexed in Scopus/ESCI/EBSCO; while some are published as book chapters in edited book by international publishers. Her research background is primarily in mathematical modeling, optimization, and AIML with specific applications in inventory management, seismology, cold regions, etc..