Dr. Rajiv Kumar Sharma is presently working as Associate Professor and has also served as Head of Department of Mechanical Engineering NIT Hamirpur (H.P). He obtained his B.Tech (Hons) from SLIET Longowal (CFTI), Punjab , M.Tech (Hons) in Industrial and Production Engineering with Gold Medal from Thapar University Patiala and doctoral degree (Ph.D) from Indian Institute of Technology; IIT Roorkee-247667. Till so far he has guided 05 PhD theses, 25 M.Tech Thesis and more than 50 U.G projects in various areas of engineering. He has research and teaching experience of more than 15 years and about 100 publications in International journals of repute. He is also on Editorial Board of many reputed Journals such as International Journal of Quality and Reliability Management, TQM Journal , Emerald Publishers; International Journal of Strategic Business Alliance, Inderscience Publishers, Advances in Production Engineering & Management, Production Engineering Institute(PEI), University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia European Union (EU). He has completed sponsored project from UGC and DST. His research interests include Supply chain and Logistics, Flexible manufacturing systems, statistical quality control, system reliability and maintenance, quality engineering, six sigma, lean manufacturing and Industry 4.0.