Dr. Dilbagh Panchal is currently working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial and Production Engineering, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar, Punjab, India-144011. He works in the area of Reliability and Maintenance Engineering, fuzzy decision making and operation management. He obtained his Bachelor (hons.) in Mechanical Engineering from Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, India in 2007 and Masters (Gold medallist) in Manufacturing Technology in 2011 from Dr B.R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar, India. He received his PhD in 2016 from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India. Presently, he oversees three PhD scholars. Seven M. Tech dissertations have been guided by him and two are in progress. He has published 22 research papers in SCI/Scopus indexed journals and ten book chapters have been published by him under a reputed publisher. He has edited two books within his field of expertise and has seven books in progress, and he has attended several international conferences. He is a member of various societies like ORSI, Kolkata, ISTE, New Delhi and IIIE, Mumbai. He is associate editor of the International Journal of System Assurance and Engineering Management (Springer Publication), and regularly reviews many journals such as, International Journal of Industrial and System Engineering (Inderscience), International Journal of Operational Research (Inderscience), OPSERACH (Springer Publication); and Applied Energy (Elsevier publishers).