Dr. Ajit Behera currently working as Asst. Professor in Metallurgical & Materials Department at National Institute of Technology, Rourkela. He born in 1987 in Odisha. He completed his Ph.D. at IIT-Kharagpur in 2016. He received the National “IEI Young Engineer Award” in 2022, “Yuva Rattan Award” in 2020, “C.V. Raman Award” in 2019, and “young faculty award” in 2017. He has published 01 authored book (textbook), 12 edited books, more than 50 Book chapters, and more than 50 Journals. 05 Ph.D. students awarded under his supervision and more than 10 Ph.D. students from his institute/outside the institute are working on different projects with him. (Academic Identity Link: : 1) ORCID Link: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5357-7733 , 2) Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=R-G7pSoAAAAJ&hl=en , 3) Web of science: https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/190963 , 4) Scopus: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=56539505200 , 5) Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ajit_Behera4 , 6) Academia: http://nitrkl.academia.edu/AjitBehera )