Author: Nita H. Shah

Prof. Nita H. Shah heads the Department of Mathematics in Gujarat University, India. She is a post-doctoral visiting research fellow of University of New Brunswick, Canada. Prof. Nita”s research interests include inventory modeling in supply chain, robotic modeling, mathematical modeling of infectious diseases, image processing, dynamical systems and its applications etc. She has completed 3-UGC sponsored projects. She has published 13 monograph, 5 textbooks, and 475+ peer-reviewed research papers. Her five edited books have been published by international publishers such as Springer. She has guided 28 Ph.D. students and 15 M.Phil. students till now. She has travelled in USA, Singapore, Canada, South Africa, Malaysia, and Indonesia for lectures and visiting faculty posts. She is Vice-President of Operational Research Society of India, and council member of Indian Mathematical Society.  Dr. Mandeep Mittal started his career in the education industry in 2000with Amity Group. Currently, he is working as Head and Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics, Amity Institute of Applied Sciences, Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Noida. He earned his post-doctorate from Hanyang University, South Korea, in 2016, Ph.D. (2012) from the University of Delhi, India, and post-graduation in Applied Mathematics from IIT Roorkee, India (2000). He has published more than 70 research papers in international journals and proceedings papers in international conferences. He has co-edited five research books with international publishers such as Springer. Awarded the Best Faculty Award by the Amity School of Engineering and Technology, New Delhi for the year 2016–2017, he has so far guided four Ph.D. scholars, and 4 students working with him in the area of Inventory Control and Management. He also served as Dean of Students Activities at Amity School of Engineering and Technology, Delhi, for nine years, and worked as Head, Department of Mathematics inthe same institute for a year. He is a member of editorial boards of Revista Investigacion Operacional, Journal of Control and Systems Engineering, and Journal of Advances in Management Sciences and Information Systems.