Prof Ranjan Kumar Mohanty received his Ph.D degree from the Department of Mathematics, IIT Delhi on the topic ‘Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations’, in the year 1990. He is already having more than 33 years of teaching and research experience at University of Indore, University of Delhi and South Asian University. Prof Mohanty is a recipient of prestigious ‘Fulbright-Nehru Senior Research Fellowship 2013’, ‘Commonwealth Fellowship 2000’, and ‘BOYSCAST Fellowship 1996’. He has worked as a post-doctoral fellow at Louisiana Tech University (USA), Nottingham Trent University (UK) and Loughborough University (UK), under the aforesaid fellowship program. He has also visited Technical University Dresden (Germany), University of Strathclyde (Scotland), Nottingham Trent University (England), and Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing (China) under INSA-DFG, INSA-Royal Society and INSA-CAS bilateral exchange program to carry out advanced research work in his field of research. Prof Mohanty has already published more than 200 research papers in various international academic Journals of repute. To his credit he has successfully guided 30 Ph.D students. He has delivered several lectures as a resource person and invited speakers at different places in India and abroad. He is a regular reviewer of many national and international Journals. Prof Mohanty has been elected as a Fellow of National Academy of Sciencesis (FNASc), in the year 2012.