Dr. Saroj Kumar Patel is now working as Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering Department of National institute of Technology, Rourkela. He graduated in Mechanical Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Rourkela in the year 1985. Initially he served with Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, Koraput Division, Sunabeda. He obtained M.Tech degree from Indian Institute of Technology Madras, 1. Chennai and Ph.D. degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He has 5 years of industrial experience and 25 years of teaching and research experience. His areas of research include operations management, optimization, industrial engineering and quality assurance. He has published research papers around 50 international journals and 50 conference proceedings. He is also a co-author in the book “S.N.Alam, S.Islam and S.K.Patel, Advanced Guide to MATLAB: Practical Examples in Science and Engineering, IK International Publishing House, New Delhi, 2015”.