Dr. R. Ganesh Narayanan is a Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati, India. He received his Ph.D. from the IIT Bombay, India. His research areas of interest include Metal Forming and Joining. He has contributed many research articles in reputed journals and international conferences. He has edited several titles including: ‘Strengthening and Joining by Plastic Deformation’ published by Springer Singapore, ‘Advances in Material Forming and Joining’ published by Springer India, and ‘Metal Forming Technology and Process Modeling’ published by McGraw Hill Education, India. He has also edited several special journal issues including: Advances in Computational Methods in Manufacturing in the International Journal of Mechatronics and Manufacturing Systems, and Numerical Simulations in Manufacturing in the Journal of Machining and Forming Technologies. He has organized three international conferences at IIT Guwahati, namely the International Conference on Computational Methods in Manufacturing (ICCMM) in 2011, the 5th International and 26th All India Manufacturing Technology, Design and Research (AIMTDR) Conference in 2014 and the 2nd International Conference on Computational Methods in Manufacturing (ICCMM) in 2019. He has also organized a GIAN course on ‘Green Material Forming and Joining’ at IIT Guwahati in 2016.