Books By R. Venkata Rao, Jan Taler - Author

Dr. R. Venkata Rao is a Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, S. V. National Institute of Technology, Surat, India. He has more than 28 years of teaching and research experience. He completed his B.Tech. in 1988, M.Tech. in 1991, Ph.D. in 2002, and obtained his D.Sc. in 2017. Dr. Rao's research interests include: advanced optimization algorithms and their applications to design, thermal and manufacturing engineering, and fuzzy multiple attribute decision-making (MADM) methods and their industrial applications. He has more than 300 research papers to his credit, published in national and international journals and conference proceedings. He has received national and international awards for his research efforts. He is a reviewer for more than 80 national and international journals and serves on the editorial boards of several international journals. He has also been a Visiting Professor at Cracow University of Technology, Poland in January 2016, November 2016, and June 2018, at BITS Pilani