Dr. Amalesh Kumar Manna is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics under School of Applied Sciences, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, India. Prior to joining KIIT, he served as an Associate Professor in the Department of Basic Science and Humanities at the University of Engineering and Management (UEM), Kolkata, from 9th January, 2023 to 28th September, 2023. He also worked as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at C. V. Raman Global University, Bhubaneswar, from 1st December, 2022 to 8th January, 2023. Dr. Manna has 2 years and 6 months of postdoctoral research experience from Department of Mathematics, The University of Burdwan, India. He was awarded the prestigious UGC–Dr. D. S. Kothari Post-Doctoral Fellowship (DSKPDF) on 18th March, 2019. He received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Vidyasagar University, India, in 2017. His research interests include imperfect production inventory models, supply chain management under crisp, fuzzy, stochastic, and interval environments, and meta-heuristic optimization techniques. Dr. Manna has made a notable impact in his research domain, evidenced by over 2100 citations on Google Scholar, along with an h-index of 28 and an i10-index of 46. He has published more than 56 research papers in reputed international journals such as Applied Mathematical Modelling, Applied Soft Computing, Journal of Cleaner Production, etc.