Dr. Navneet Khanna is an Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Institute of Infrastructure Technology Research and Management, Ahmedabad, India. He is a specialist in building a strong pool of trained engineering graduates and is involved in solving Manufacturing related problems of Indian Industries and Government Organizations. He bagged the Early Career Research Award of SERB (Government of India) and successfully completed the project. He has successfully led 100+ projects defined by the Indian industries and published 100+ research papers in renowned (SCI/SCIE) peer-reviewed (Q1 & Q2) journals. In addition to this core competence, he has created several avenues of collaborative work with ISRO, DRDO, IPR, IITs, and renowned institutions round-the-globe. He has been invited by several renowned institutions worldwide to deliver invited talks and lectures. Dr. Khanna’s name figured among the top 2% of researchers and scientists of the world in a report published by Standard University, USA, and Elsevier of the Netherlands for the years of 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. Dr. Khanna is listed among the World's Best Engineering and technology Scientists by Research.com. Dr. Khanna also featured among the top 0.05% of scholars worldwide in the speciality of Cryogenics and Tribology by ScholarGPS.

Dr. Khanna is a recipient of CLARIVATE India Research Excellence – Citation Awards 2025 in Engineering and Technology Category.

Prof. Vitalii Ivanov, DSc., Ph.D., ING.PAED.IGIP, Professor of the Department of Manufacturing Engineering, Machines and Tools of Sumy State University, Ukraine.