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Shriniwas Annasaheb Patil
Textile and Engineering Institute, Kolhapur, Maharashtra
Ramani B
Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar (SSN) College of Engineering, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
R Shankar
Kongunadu College of Engineering and Technology, Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu
P M Chandrashekharaiah
Shridevi Institute of Engineering and Technology, Tumkur, Karnataka
S Bharath Kumar
NBKR Institute of Science and Technology, Nellore, Karnataka
Padma Batra
Krishna Institute of Engineering and Technology, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh
T L Singal
Chitkara University, Chandigarh, Punjab
Dinesh Chandra
Jagadguru Sri Shivarathreeshwara (JSS) Academy of Technical Education, Noida, Uttar Pradesh
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