Dr. Rakesh Roy is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at the National Institute of Technology Agartala, Tripura, India. He received his Ph.D. Degree in Atmospheric Science from Tripura University, Tripura, India in 2013. He is having 7 Years of Experience in the field of Atmospheric Science. His Area of Expertise includes: Characterization of lower ionospheric parameters from VLF and LF manmade transmitted signal Characterization of different properties of cloud with the help of atmospheric electricity and VLF measurement Perturbation at atmosphere, ionosphere sferics and VLF signal due to earthquake AC & DC Global electric Circuit and its related parameters Worldwide thunderstorm activity, lightning activity and its characteristics Schumann Resonance phenomena Natural VLF phenomena: sferics, sprite, blue jets, whistlers, tweaks, and its interaction with ionosphere He is the author of 16 journal papers, recipient of 3 awards etc.

Dr. Arun Kumar Awasthi is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Solar Physics Department of Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences, Nainital, UK. He has submitted his thesis in December, 2013 in Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, Gujarat and MLSU, Udaipur, Rajasthan for the award of his Ph.D.Degree. He is having 6 Years of Experience in the field of Solar Physics. His Area of Expertise includes: Solar Physics Plasma Physics Spaced and ground based Instrumentation He is the Life time member of Astronomical Society of India (ASI).

Prof. Ratnesh Dwivedi is a Charter Member and Member Advocate with George Washington Bush Presidential Center located in Texas, Member of American Astronomical Society. Ha bears the honor of attending several high rated workshops of NASA and continuously follows NASA updates since 2003. Ratnesh Dwivedi loves to be categorized as prolific writer, commentator and academician. He has authored five books. The Story of an Intern is a reportage book of struggle of an Intern in big bad media world, while The Cosmic Mask is a compilation of nine space fiction stories which he self-published with an Amazon company. Third and fourth are awarded academic books. His fifth book on US Intelligence and Cost of War is released world-wide on November 7, 2015. He has been associated with Amity University, where he led a project to set up Community Radio Station and TV Studio apart from his teaching assignment. He is widely published academician in the field of Media and Communication with nearly 30 publications and presentation in countries like Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Germany, Slovinia, Chzeck, Britain, USA and India with nearly 7000 downloads, which itself is a record. He is ‘Research Manager’ with a China based IPR firm and Traditional and Renewable Energy Consultant with a New Jersey, USA based Energy firm. Apart from his association with Bush Center, he is also associated with several other organizations. He is a Chapter Member with Internet Society- A global non-profit organization which works for popularity of Internet. Ratnesh Dwivedi is associated with European Communication Research and Education Association-a premier media research organization in Europe. He is an individual member with Institute of English Studies, University of London and has a non-member status with American Astronomical Society.

Dr. A. Satya Narayanan is presently an Associate Professor at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore, India. He obtained his undergraduate and graduate degrees in Mathematics from the University of Madras in the years1976 and 1978, respectively. In the same year, he joined the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore for pursuing his Doctoral degree at the Department of Applied Mathematics and successfully defended his thesis on “Studies on Internal Atmospheric Gravity Waves and their Stability Characteristics’’. He was awarded the Ph.D. Degree in Dec. 1982. In January, 1983, he joined the Center for Atmospheric Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, as a Research Associate and worked on problems related to jets, solitary waves, Rossby waves. He returned to the Department of Applied Mathematics in Dec. 1984 as one of the Research Scientists, chosen by the University Grants Commission, New Delhi, India. After completing the tenure of five years, he briefly joined the Mathematics Department as a Research Associate. He joined the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, initially as a Visiting Fellow in 1990, was regularized and rose to the present position. He has travelled to Europe, U. K., Japan, Singapore to attend conferences, deliver lectures. He has publications in peer reviewed national and international journals. He has given invited talks, both within India as well as abroad. He is one of the Editors of the Proceedings of the International Conference on Spectroscopy, held at Kodaikanal, published by Springer in 2010. He is also the author of a textbook, `An Introduction to Waves and Oscillations in the Sun’, which has been published by Springer in 2013. He is also writing a book in collaboration with Prof. S. K. Saha of IIA, titled “Waves and Oscillations in Nature– An Introduction’’, to be published by CRC Press (Taylor and Francis) in 2014.

Dr. Rajmal D. Jain is an internationally acclaimed astrophysicist who has made fundamental contribution to the development of Solar and Planetary Physics and related instrumentation in India. Dr. Jain is one of the founders of the Udaipur Solar Observatory (USO) and has been a key contributor to its growth. Recently on 10 January 2014, Prof. Rajmal Jain, Hon. Scientist at Physical Research Laboratory, Dept. of Space, Govt. of India, received highly prestigious and top international award as Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, UK. This designation honors foreign nationals based overseas, typically in recognition of their services to astronomical and geophysical sciences such as through distinguished leadership of observatory/ laboratory, outstanding services to national or international organizations, exceptionally important discoveries, influential work in education and outreach in these sciences; or especially outstanding work in the history of these sciences. This award came to him as a result of being Principal Investigator of “Solar X-ray Spectrometer (SOXS)” mission launched aboard GSAT-2 spacecraft of India in 2003, and he discovered iron and nickel line features in the outer atmosphere of the Sun known as corona. The SOXS mission was the first solar astronomy space borne experiment of India. The mission worked with a great success for 8 years, a history in ISRO. Through his outstanding research Dr. Jain demonstrated that solar radiation influences the earth’s climate as well as the atmosphere of the other planets. Dr. Rajmal Jain is only Asian to receive this award in the year of 2014. Prof. Rajmal Jain is currently Outstanding Professor and Dean, Research Cell at Kadi Sarva Vishwavidyalaya, Gandhinagar. Earlier he was senior scientist in Physical Research Laboratory, Dept. of Space, Govt. of India where he worked for the SOXS mission and other payloads for future space missions. Prof. Rajmal Jain is the First Asian to receive International Young Astronomer Award from NOAO/USA. He has been honored by Vigyan Purskar, Govt. of Rajasthan and SAARC Countries Resource Person Award, Ministry of HRD, Govt. of India. His first foreign visit was to erstwhile USSR as a Prime Minister Fellow to attend International Conference in 1981, sponsored by the then Prime Minister of India Late Mrs. Indira Gandhi. Prof. Jain has visited by and large many countries of the world and represented India at various platforms.

Dr. Ravishekar Kannan is a Principal Scientist at CFDRC. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Aerospace Engineering and has been practicing Computational Fluid Dynamics and scientific computing for the last 12 years. His research interests include moving boundary problems, parallel programming, computer architecture based optimization, algorithm development for high order methods, computational biology, particle transport formulations and fluid structure interactions. His Ph.D. dissertation dealt with developing high order p-multigrid implicit Spectral volume and Spectral difference methods for Navier Stokes equations. During his M.S. and PhD he developed an unstructured parallel overset adaptive Cartesian-Prism grid for handling 3D moving boundary problem. He continued the above as a research engineer at CFDRC through the grants he received from the Air Force and Navy contracts. He has published a series of research papers on the above in well-known international journals. As a senior scientist, he is a key architect of the CFDRC’s HPC suites, used internally and by other organizations like AFRL, AFOSR, NASA, Merck Research Laboratories. Currently Dr. Kannan works on the integration of CoBi and PETSc tools for Fluid Structure Interaction (FSI) problems and benchmarking on parallel computing clusters. Dr. Kannan has published several peer-reviewed journal articles and made technical presentations at conferences in the area of HPC/parallelization, high order methods and computational models for blast injury prediction. Dr. Kannan has been the Principal Investigator for HPC projects from NASA, Air Force and Merck Research Laboratories. Dr. Kannan is in the editorial board of “Journal of Aerospace Engineering and Technology” and “International Journal of Biomedical Engineering”. Dr Kannan is an expert in HPC, high order methods, CFD and computational physics, the author of over 35 publications, the reviewer of over 80 manuscripts and is a highly cited researcher.

Dr. Syed Amer Mahmood is An Associate Professor and Chairman in the Department of Remote Sensing and GIS at the University of Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan. He received his Ph.D. degree in Space Science with specialization in Remote Sensing and GIS in 2012. His research interests and specialization includes Remote Sensing and GIS developments and applications in the field of Earth and Space Science, SAR Interferometery, Natural disaster management, continental and regional tectonics, Earthquakes and crustal surface deformation, Satellite based Dam-sites identification and mapping, water resources modeling (Hydrology), geomorphology and neotectonics, surface and basin dynamics, drainage and lineament analysis, erosion modelling, river longitudinal profile (Detachment limited incision modelling), hypsometric analyses, Geomorphometry and indices analysis, non-linear analysis (Fractals), atmospheric, climatic and meteorological implications and modeling, urban planning, forest inventory management and modeling of uplifting and sinking Deltas/Topographic evolution. Dr. Mahmood is the recipient of Various awards such as; awarded IEEE grant for International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), July 2009, CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA; awarded grant for the 33rd International Geological Congress 2008, OSLO, NORWAY, 2008; awarded Certificate of representing Pakistan for the first time to address 5th International Earth Science Olympiad (IESO) on Earth Science Renaissance: Science, Environment and Art, held at, MODENA, ITALY, 2011; awarded fully funded grant to attend Asian Seismological commission Meeting, at TSUKUBA SCIENCE CITY, JAPAN-2008. He was selected as a Member of Scientific and Technical Committee & Editorial Review Board for World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology (WASET), Connecticut, CT 06878, USA.

Dr. Yuwaraj M. Ghugal is a Professor and Head in the Department of Applied Mechanics, Govt. College of Engineering, Karad, Maharashtra, India. He received his Ph.D. degree in Structural Engineering, from Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai in the year 2000. He is having a rich 24 years of experience in the field of Structural Engineering. He has delivered various lectures, attended many short term courses, seminars, conferences, symposiums etc.

Dr. Khaled Ebnalwaled Abdelfattah Ahmed is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics, at the South Valley University, Egypt. He received his Ph.D. Degree (2006) from Qena, Egypt, South Valley University in Material Science and earned his postdoctoral from the Stuttgart University, Germany. His area of interest includes Space Physics, Nano-materials and its applications, Semi-conductors etc. He is having 5+ years of experience in his subject and is also the recipient of major grants including MHESR Partnership and Ownership RFP– ParOwn1106, CNRS, Saint Martin d'Heres, Grenoble, FRANCE, (2007). Secondly, Postdoctoral Fellowship, Institute for Photovoltaic (IPV), Stuttgart, Germany, (2016). Dr. Khaled E.A. Ahmed is the recipient of awards including South Valley University prize for scientific publications (2009). South Valley University prize for scientific publications (2010), South Valley University prize for scientific publications (2013), Award prize of Best Poster in Nanotechnology Session (2nd international conference in basic & applied science, Sokhna 2014), South Valley University prize for scientific publications (2014), Award prize of Best Oral presentation in Nanotechnology Session (The 3rd International Conference of Advanced Applied Sciences (ICAAS-III), Hurghada 2015) and South Valley University prize for scientific publications (2015).

Dr. Khaled Ebnalwaled Abdelfattah Ahmed is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics, at the South Valley University, Egypt. He received his Ph.D. Degree (2006) from Qena, Egypt, South Valley University in Material Science and earned his postdoctoral from the Stuttgart University, Germany. His area of interest includes Space Physics, Nano-materials and its applications, Semi-conductors etc. He is having 5+ years of experience in his subject and is also the recipient of major grants including MHESR Partnership and Ownership RFP– ParOwn1106, CNRS, Saint Martin d'Heres, Grenoble, FRANCE, (2007). Secondly, Postdoctoral Fellowship, Institute for Photovoltaic (IPV), Stuttgart, Germany, (2016). Dr. Khaled E.A. Ahmed is the recipient of awards including South Valley University prize for scientific publications (2009). South Valley University prize for scientific publications (2010), South Valley University prize for scientific publications (2013), Award prize of Best Poster in Nanotechnology Session (2nd international conference in basic & applied science, Sokhna 2014), South Valley University prize for scientific publications (2014), Award prize of Best Oral presentation in Nanotechnology Session (The 3rd International Conference of Advanced Applied Sciences (ICAAS-III), Hurghada 2015) and South Valley University prize for scientific publications (2015).