Ajit K. Verma is a
Professor (Technical Safety), ATØM, Stord/Haugesund University College,
Haugesund, Norway (since March 2012) and has been a Professor (since Feb 2001)
and Senior (HAG) scale Professor (since Jan 2013) with the Department
ofElectrical Engineering at IIT Bombay with a research focus in Reliability and
Safety Engineering( He has been on leave from IIT Bombay since March 2012). He
was the Director of the International Institute of Information Technology Pune,
on lien from IIT Bombay, from Aug 2009-Sep 2010. He has
supervised/co-supervised 37 PhDs(IIT Bombay and Lulea Technical University,
Sweden) and 95 Masters theses(IIT Bombay; LJMU,UK; WMG,Warwick University,UK)
in the area of Electronics System reliability, Software Reliability, Reliable
Computing, Power Systems Reliability (PSR), Reliability Centred
Maintenance (RCM) and Probabilistic Safety/Risk Assessment (PSA) and
Plant Engineering. He is the Springer Book Series Editor of Reliable & Sustainable
Electric Power and Energy Systems Management and jointly edited(with Prof.Roy
Billinton and Prof.Rajesh Karki) books titled 1.Reliability and Risk Evaluation
of Wind Integrated Power Systems 2. Reliability Modeling and Analysis of Smart
Power Systems andis also an author of books titled Fuzzy Reliability
Engineering-Concepts and Applications (Narosa), Optimal Maintenance of Large
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Safety Engineering (Springer), Dependability of Networked Computer Based Systems
(Springer),Risk Management of Non-Renewable Energy Systems(Springer). He has
over 250 publications in various journals (125 papers) and conferences. He is a
senior member of IEEE and a life fellowof IETE. He has been the Editor-in-Chief
of OPSEARCH published by Springer(Jan 2008-Jan 2011) as well as the Founder
Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Systems Assurance Engineering and
Management(IJSAEM) published by Springer and an Editor-in-Chief of Journal of
Life Cycle Reliability and Safety Engineering. He has been on the editorial
board of international journals like Quality Assurance (Associate Editor),
International Journal of Automation & Computing(Springer) (Associate
Editor), Communications in Dependabilityand Quality Management, International
Journal of Performability Engineering, International Journal of Reliability,
Quality andSafety Engineering (World Scientific), International Journal of
Quality, Statistics, andReliability (Hindawi) and on the advisory board of
OPSEARCH(published by Springer) and International Journal of Swarm
Intelligence(Inderscience). He has served as a Guest Editor of Special Issueof
IETE Technical Review on Quality Management in Electronics,
Telecommunication& Information Technology, 2001 and as a Guest Editor of Special
Issue of International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering
(World Scientific) Dec 2004, June 2006, April 2008, Dec 2009 & June 2010.
He hasbeen a Guest Editor of Special Issue of DQM Communications, 2006, 2007
& 2009 and Special Issue on ‘Dependability in computing systems’ of
International Journal ofPerformability Engineering, 2006. He was a Guest Editor
of Special Issue on ‘Reliable Computing’ of International Journal of Automation
and Computing (Oct 2007), May 2010, IJSAEM (June 2010) (with Prof Roy
Billintonand Prof RajeshKarki) and IJSAEM (March 2011) ( with Prof Lotfi Zadeh
and Prof Ashok Deshpande) and IEEE Transactions on Reliability, March 2011. He
is an Editor of ` Current Trends in Reliability, Availability, Maintainability
and Safety- An Industry Perspective` being published by Lecture Notes in
Mechanical Engineering, Springer Series.
Prof. A. Srividya is a
Professor II at Stord/Haugesund University College(Aug 2014-July 2015). She was
a Guest Professor from August 2012 till July 2014 at Stord/Haugesund University
College, Haugesund,Norway prior to which she worked with IIT Bombay since 1988
where she is a Professor in Civil Engineering with research focus in the areas
of Reliability & Safety Engineering and Quality Management. She has
supervised/co-supervised 28 PhD’s and 50 Masters thesis in the area of
Structural Reliability, Reliability Based Optimisation, Simulation Studies for
Reliability Estimation, Quality Benchmarking
Studies for Service Industries, Quality Systems and Accelerated Life Testing.
She has executed various research projects to promote industry interface and
has been course co-ordinator for industry CEPs like Reliability Engineering and
Quality Management and Six Sigma for IT industries. She has jointly authored
books titled “Fuzzy Reliability Engineering-Concepts and Applications”(Narosa)
and ‘Optimal Maintenance of Large Engineering Systems’(Narosa), ‘Reliability
and Safety Engineering’(Springer), ‘Dependability of Networked Computer based
Systems’(Springer)and `Risk Management of Non-Renewable Energy Systems’
(Springer). She has 205 publications in various international and national
journals and conferences. She has been an Area Editor of OPSEARCH journal
published by Springer as well as an Editor of International Journal of Systems
Assurance Engineering and Management(IJSAEM) published by Springer and Member
in the Editorial Board of International journal of Communications in
Dependability and Quality Management. She has been Conference Chairperson of
International Conference on Reliability, Safety & Hazard 2005 (Advances in
Risk Informed Technology) at Hotel the Leela, Mumbai, Dec 01-03, 2005.She was
instrumental in editing and reviewing the proceedings of various International
Conferences like International Conference on Quality Reliability and Control
2001, International Conference on Multimedia and Design 2002 and International
Conference on Quality Reliability and Information Technology 2003 and
International Conference on Reliability, Safety & Hazard 2005 and anEditor
of the proceedings (Narosa). She was also the Conference Chair for
International Conference on Quality, Reliability and Infocom Technology held
at INSA, New Delhi(Dec’ 2-4),2006. She was a Conference Chair of the
International Conference on Reliability, Safety and Quality Engineering, held
at NPCIL, Mumbai from Jan 5-7, 2008 and Editor of the proceedings (Macmillan),
Conference Chair, 4th International Conference on Quality, Reliability and
Infocom Technology 2009 (ICQRIT - 2009), 18 - 20 Dec 2009 New Delhi, India. She
is a recipient of “Leadership in Reliability Engineering Education &
Research award” by Society of Reliability Engineering, Quality & Operations
Management.
Dr. Durga Rao Karanki
has been working as a Scientist at Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland since
2009. His current research primarily focuses on dynamic risk assessment and
uncertainty propagation. He is a visiting faculty at KINGS, Ulsan, South Korea
and Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He is on the editorial board of
three international journals in the area of reliability and risk analysis. He
has actively been involved in probabilistic safety assessment and risk informed
decision-making research on nuclear reactors for
the last 12 years. His research resulted in more than 50 publications including
2 books, 12 first author journal papers, and several conference papers. One of
his works got into the list of most cited Reliability Engineering and System
Safety articles (2013 and 2014). He received two awards (2009, 2012) for
research Excellency from Society for Reliability Engineering, Quality and
Operations Management (SREQOM), New Delhi.
Prior to joining PSI, he
worked as a Scientific Officer (2002- 2009) in PSA Section of Bhabha Atomic
Research Centre (Mumbai, India), where he conducted research on Dynamic Fault
Tree Analysis, Uncertainty Analysis, and Risk Informed Decision Making. He was
also a visiting faculty at Department of Atomic Energy (India) training
schools. He holds B.Tech in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the
Nagarjuna University (India), M.Tech in Reliability Engineering from the Indian
Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur and Ph.D. from the IIT Bombay.
