Harish Garg

Biography:

Harish Garg received a Ph.D. degree in applied mathematics with a specialization in Reliability theory and soft computing techniques from IIT Roorkee, India, in 2013. Presently, he is working with School of Mathematics at Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology (Deemed University) Patiala, Punjab, India. He has authored over 280 papers (with SCI papers 240) published in refereed International Journals and has supervised 07 Ph.D. dissertations. His work published including Information Sciences, IEEE Transactions On Fuzzy Systems, International Journal of Intelligent Systems, IEEE/CAA Journal Of Automatic Sinica, IEEE Transactions On Emerging Topics In Computational Intelligence, Cognitive Computation, Artificial Intelligence Review, Applied Intelligence, and many more. He is the recipient of the Top-Cited Paper by India-based Author (2015 – 2019) from Elsevier Publisher.

He serves as Editor-in-Chief of Annals of Optimization Theory and Practice. He is also the Associate Editors for several renowned journals such as Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, Kybernetes, Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Journal of Industrial & Management Optimization, International Journal of Computational and Intelligence Systems, Complexity, Complex and Intelligent Systems etc. His Google citations are over 9540 with h-index is 57. His research interests are in the fields of Computational Intelligence, Reliability analysis, Multi-criteria decision making, fuzzy decision making, Pythagorean fuzzy sets, Computing with words and Soft Computing. For more details, kindly visit.

Professional Experience:

• Designation : Assistant Professor
• Period : June 17, 2014 – till date
• Institute: School of Mathematics and Computer Applications, Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala, Punjab, India
• Duties: Teaching Undergraduate and Post Graduate students and responsible for carrying out innovative and insightful research in the area of reliability theory using Evolutionary algorithm and fuzzy set theory with their application in numerous industrial engineering areas.

• Designation : Lecturer
• Period :July 19, 2013 – June 16, 2014
• Institute: School of Mathematics and Computer Applications, Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala, Punjab, India
• Duties: Teaching Undergraduate and Post Graduate students and responsible for carrying out innovative and insightful research in the area of reliability theory using Evolutionary algorithm and fuzzy set theory.

• Designation: Teaching Assistant
• Period : 2009 – 2013
• Institute: Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India
• Duties: Responsible for conducting tutorials for graduate and under-graduate students for Engineering Mathematics, Numerical analysis, Optimization technique.

• Designation:Research Fellow
• Period : 2009 – 2013
• Institute:Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India

• Designation: Lecturer
• Period : July 2008 – Dec. 2008
• Institute: Department of Mathematics, Multani Mal Modi College, Patiala affiliated with Punjabi University Patiala.
• Duties: Teaching undergraduate students, BSc, BBA for various disciplines of mathematics subject.

Educational Qualifications:

PhD (Applied Mathematics)

• Period : Jan 2009 – July 2013
• Institute:Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India
• Department:Department of Mathematics
• Thesis Title: Reliability analysis of some industrial systems using soft computing technique.
• Advisor:Prof. Dr. S.P. Sharma
• Awarded:July 10, 2013

MSc (Mathematics) 

• Period : 2006 – 2008
• Institute:Punjabi University Patiala, India
• Department:Department of Mathematics
• Marks:75.05%

BSc (Computer Applications) 

• Period : 2003 – 2006
• University:Punjabi University Patiala, India
• College:Khalsa College Patiala, India
• Marks:71.07%

10+2 (Non-Medical)

• Period : 2001 – 2003
• Board:Punjab School Education Board, Mohali
• College:Khalsa College Patiala, India
• Marks:77.33%

Details of Books:

• Pythagorean Fuzzy Sets: Theory & Applications, Springer, Publisher 2021, Editor: Harish Garg
• Decision-Making with Neutrosophic Set: Theory & Applications in Knowledge Management, Nova Publisher, 2021, Editor: Harish Garg
• Reliability Management and Engineering: Challenges and Future Trends, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis, 2020, Editors: Harish Garg and Mangey Ram
• Proceedings of Sixth International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving, SocProS 2016, Volume 1, Springer, 2017, Editors: Deep et al.
• Proceedings of Sixth International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving, SocProS 2016, Volume 2, Springer, 2017, Editors: Deep et al.

Details of PhD Thesis Supervised:

• Gagandeep Kaur, Title: Some Algorithms for decision-making problems based on the extensions of intuitionistic fuzzy sets, Status: Submitted, Year 2021
• Dimple Rani, Title: Some aggregation operators & Information Measures for solving decision-making problems, Status: Submitted, Year 2021
• Rishu Arora, Title: Measures & Aggregation Operators on Fuzzy/Intuitionistic Fuzzy Soft Sets with Applications to Decision-Making, Status: Awarded, Year 2020
• Sukhveer Singh, Title: Algorithms for Solving Decision Making Problems using Type - 2 Fuzzy Sets., Status: Awarded, Year 2020
• Kamal Kumar, Title: Some Strategical Methods for Solving Decision-Making Problems Under Fuzzy/Intuitionistic Fuzzy Set Environment, Status: Awarded, Year 2020
• Nancy, Title: Methods for Solving Decision - Making Problems Under Neutrosophic Environment, Status: Awarded, Year 2019
• Nikunj Agarwal, Title: Methods for Solving Decision Making Problems Under Intuitionistic Fuzzy Environment, Status: Awarded, Year 2018
  
  
  
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Editorial Membership Bodies:

• Editor in Chief: Annals of Optimization Theory and Practice, Click here (2020 – present)
• Associate Editor, Alexandria Engineering Journal, Elsevier (SCIE: IF: 2.460)
• Associate Editor, Complex and Intelligent Systems, Springer (SCIE: IF: 3.791)
• Associate Editor, Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization (SCIE: IF: 1.366)
• Associate Editor, Kybernetes, Emerald (SCIE: IF: 1.754)
• Editor, Technological and Economic Development of Economy (SSCI: IF: 2.194)
• Associate Editor, Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, IOS Press (SCIE: IF: 1.851)
• Associate Editor, International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems (SCIE: IF: 1.838)
• Associate Editor, Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Hindawi (SCIE: IF: 1.009)
• Associate Editor, Complexity, Hindawi (SCIE: IF: 2.462)
• Associate Editor, CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, Wiley (Scopus, ESCI)
• Editorial Board Member, Decision-Making: Applications in Management & Engineering (Scopus)
• Associate Editor, International Journal of Mathematical, Engineering and Management Sciences (Scopus, ESCI)
• Editorial Board Member, Information, MDPI (Scopus, ESCI)
• Editorial Board Member, SN, Applied Science, Springer (Scopus)
  
  
  
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Teaching Interests:

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• Optimization Techniques
• Statistical Methods
• Mathematics-I
• Mathematics-II
• Probability & Statistics
• Soft Computing

Research Interest:

• Expert Systems
• Decision Making Problems
• Computational Intelligence
• Soft Computing
• Multi-criteria decision making
• Reliability Theory
  
  
  
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Publications: Total Publications: 280 (Book Chapters: 07, International Journals: 266 (SCI: 240), International Conferences: 07)

Journals

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1. Harish Garg, A new possibility degree measure for interval-valued q-rung orthopair fuzzy sets in decision-making, International Journal of Intelligent Systems, Wiley, 36(1), 526 - 557, 2021, doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/int.22308 (SCI: Impact Factor: 10.312).
2. Yige Xue, Yong Deng, Harish Garg, Uncertain database retrieval with measure-based belief function attribute values under intuitionistic fuzzy set, Information Sciences, Elsevier, 546, 436 - 447, 2021, doi: 10.1016/j.ins.2020.08.096 (SCI: Impact Factor: 5.910)
3. Harish Garg, Linguistic interval-valued Pythagorean fuzzy sets and their application to multiple attribute group decision-making process, Cognitive Computation, Springer 12(6), pp. 1313 - 1337, 2020, DOI: 10.1007/s12559-020-09750-4 (SCI: Impact Factor: 4.307)
4. Dimple Rani, Harish Garg, Complex intuitionistic fuzzy preference relations and their applications in individual and group decision making problems, International Journal of Intelligent Systems, Wiley, 2021, (SCI: Impact Factor: 10.312).
5. Harish Garg, Rishu Arora, Generalized Maclaurin symmetric mean aggregation operators based on Archimedean t-norm of the intuitionistic fuzzy soft set information, Artificial Intelligence Review, Springer, 2021, pp. 1 - 41, doi: 10.1007/s10462-020-09925-3 (SCI: Impact Factor: 5.747).
6. Harish Garg, A novel trigonometric operation-based q-rung orthopair fuzzy aggregation operators and its fundamental properties, Neural Computing and Applications, Springer, 32(18), 15077 - 15099, 2020, doi: 10.1007/s00521-020-04859-x (SCI: Impact Factor: 4.774)
7. Sadegh Niroomand, Harish Garg, Ali Mahmoodirad, An intuitionistic fuzzy two stage supply chain network design problem with multi-mode demand and multi-mode transportation, ISA Transactions, Elsevier, 107, 117 - 133, 2020, doi: 10.1016/j.isatra.2020.07.033 (SCI: Impact Factor: 4.305)
8. Feifei Jin, Harish Garg, Lidan Pei, Jinpei Liu, Huayou Chen, Multiplicative consistency adjustment model and data envelopment analysis-driven decision-making process with probabilistic hesitant fuzzy preference relations, International Journal of Fuzzy Systems, Springer, 22(7), 2319 - 2332, 2020, doi: 10.1007/s40815-020-00944-4 (SCI: Impact Factor: 4.406)
9. Harish Garg, New ranking method for normal intuitionistic sets under crisp, interval environments and its applications to multiple attribute decision making process, Complex and Intelligent Systems, Springer, 6(3), 559 - 571, 2020, doi: 10.1007/s40747-020-00150-7 (SCI: Impact Factor: 3.791)
10. Harish Garg, Exponential operational laws and new aggregation operators for intuitionistic multiplicative set in multiple-attribute group decision making process, Information Sciences, Elsevier, 538, pp. 245 - 272, 2020 (SCI: Impact Factor: 5.910)
11. Harish Garg, Nancy, Linguistic single-valued neutrosophic power aggregation operators and their applications to group decision-making problems, IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, 7(2), pp. 546 - 558, 2020, doi: 10.1109/JAS.2019.1911522 (SCI: Impact Factor: 5.129)
12. Harish Garg, Gagandeep Kaur, Quantifying gesture information in brain hemorrhage patients using probabilistic dual hesitant fuzzy sets with unknown probability information, Computers & Industrial Engineering, Elsevier, 140, pp. 106211, 2020, doi: 10.1016/j.cie.2019.106211 (SCI: Impact Factor: 4.135)
13. Harish Garg, Neutrality operations-based Pythagorean fuzzy aggregation operators and its applications to multiple attribute group decision-making process, Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, 11(7), pp. 3021 - 3041, 2020, doi: 10.1007/s12652-019-01448-2 (SCI: Impact Factor: 4.594)
14. Harish Garg, Novel neutrality aggregation operators-based multiattribute group decision making method for single-valued neutrosophic numbers, Soft Computing, Springer, 24(14), pp. 10327 - 10349, 2020, doi: 10.1007/s00500-019-04535-w (SCI: Impact Factor: 3.050).
15. Harish Garg, Dimple Rani, Novel aggregation operators and ranking method for complex intuitionistic fuzzy sets and their applications to decision-making process, Artificial Intelligence Review, Springer 53(5), pp. 3595 - 3620, 2020 doi: 10.1007/s10462-019-09772-x (SCI: Impact Factor: 5.747)
16. Harish Garg, A hybrid GSA-GA algorithm for constrained optimization problems, Information Sciences, Elsevier, 478, 499 – 523, 2019 (SCI: Impact Factor: 5.910).
17. Harish Garg, Kamal Kumar, Linguistic interval-valued Atanassov intuitionistic fuzzy sets and their applications to group decision-making problems, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 27(12), pp. 2302 - 2311, 2019, doi: 10.1109/TFUZZ.2019.2897961 (SCI: Impact Factor: 9.518)
18. Harish Garg, Dimple Rani, Some Results on Information measures for complex intuitionistic fuzzy sets, International Journal of Intelligent Systems, Wiley, 34(10): 2319 - 2363, 2019, doi: 10.1002/int.22127 (SCI: Impact Factor: 10.312)
19. Harish Garg, Novel neutrality operations based Pythagorean fuzzy geometric aggregation operators for multiple attribute group decision analysis, International Journal of Intelligent Systems, Wiley, 34(10): 2459 - 2489, 2019 (SCI: Impact Factor: 10.312)

Achievements, Awards and Recognitions:

• Recognized as an Author of TOP - CITED Paper from "Applied Mathematics & Computations, Elsevier" in the period of 2015 - 2019.
• Recognized as an Author of TOP - CITED Paper from "Expert Systems, Wiley" in the period of 2018 - 19.
• Appointed as a RESEARCH ADIVSOR by the NanYang Academy of Sciences (Singapore).
• Selected as a member in the Asian Council of Science Editors
• Got an appreciation letter from Dean, Faculty Affairs, Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala under the process of Performance Awards Scheme for the period from January 2018 to December 2018 under Research Category.
• Got an appreciation letter from Dean, Faculty Affairs, Thapar University Patiala under the process of Performance Awards Scheme for the period from January 2017 to December 2017 under Research Category.
• Got an appreciation letter from Dean, Faculty Affairs, Thapar University Patiala under the process of Performance Awards Scheme for the period from January 2016 to December 2016 under Research Category.
• Organizing Secretary of 6th International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving (SocProS2016) held during December 23 – 24, 2016 at Thapar University Patiala.
• Got an appreciation letter from Dean, Faculty Affairs, Thapar University Patiala under the process of Performance Awards Scheme for the period from January 2015 to December 2015 under Teaching Category.
  
  
  
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Conference/Short Term Courses/Workshop Attended:

Workshop

• Attended a National Workshop on Modeling and Optimization held at Maharshi Dayanand University Rohtak, Haryana from August 17-21, 2010.
• DST sponsored Short term course on Nature Inspired Algorithm: Recent Trends, Theory and Applications, held at Institute of Engineers, IIT Roorkee, India from March 25-28, 2011.

Conferences

• Attended 18th World conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications (WSC18) held on the Internet from 1th to 12th December 2014.
• 3rd International Conference on Special Functions and Applications (ICSFA 2014) held at Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology Patiala, India, October 16 – 18, 2014
• 2011 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Intelligent Systems (ICIS 2011)” held at Guangzhou, China from November 18-20, 2011.
• International Conference on Advances in Modeling, Optimization and Computing (AMOC 2011) held at IIT Roorkee, Roorkee, India, December 5-7, 2011.
• Attended 16th World conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications (WSC16) held on the Internet from 5th to 16th December 2011.
• 1st International Conference on in Emerging Trends in Mechanical Engineering (ICETME) 2011”, held at Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala, India from February 24-26, 2011.
• 4th International Conference on Quality, Reliability and Infocom Technology (ICQRIT- 2009), University of Delhi, Delhi, India from December 18-20, 2009.