Professor K. B. Akhilesh is a Senior Professor at the Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India; President of Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology, Amethi, India; former member of the Board of Governors at the Indian Institute of Management, Rohtak, and coordinator (IISc) for the M.Tech. program for Technology Management at the Defense Institute` of Advanced Technology, Pune, India. He is currently involved in establishing a national level institute for energy studies in Bangalore, India. He is a Fellow of National Institute of Personnel Management, India, Member of Academy of Management, USA, and President of International Society for Organization Design and Analytics.Professor Akhilesh has published over 140 papers in Indian and international journals. He has authored 18 books, the latest of which is ‘Co-Creation & Learning’ published by Springer, and guided over 30 PhD students. His research interests include collective intelligence at the team level, family business performance, expertise transfer, team design for virtual work and product development, vocational skill development, organizational development and change Management. As a consultant and a trainer he has interacted with corporates such as Daimler Chrysler, Airbus Industries, Pratt and Whitney USA, Siemens, Lapp India; government organizations such as 5th Central Pay Commission, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), Karnataka Power Corporation to name a few; and agencies such as International Labor Organization (ILO), World Bank, Azim Premji Foundation etc.
Dr. Dietmar Möller is a Professor in the Institute of Applied Stochastics and Operations Research at Clausthal University of Technology (TUC), Germany; a Member of the Simulations Science Center (SWZ) Clausthal-Göttingen, Germany; an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), USA; and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), USA. His research has been funded by international agencies such as National Science Foundation (NSF), USA, German Research Foundation (DFG), Germany, Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Germany, German Academic Exchange Program (DAAD), Germany, Lower Saxonian Ministry for Science and Culture (MWK), Germany. His previous publications with Springer include Guide to Automotive Connectivity and Cybersecurity – Trends, Technologies, Innovations, and Applications (2018; co-authored with R. E. Haas), Guide to Computing Fundamentals in Cyber-Physical Systems – Concepts, Design Methods, and Applications (2016; Chinese translation of the book was published in 2018), and Introduction to Transportation Analysis, Modeling, and Simulation – Computational Foundations and Multimodal Applications (2014).