Pushpendra Gupta is pursuing a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He received his M.Tech in Production Engineering (Gold Medalist) in 2015 and B.Tech in Mechanical and Automation Engineering in 2011 from India. He has also worked as a faculty member for 2.5 years at MITRC Alwar before joining IIT Kharagpur. His research interests include humanoid robots, soft computing, evolutionary optimization, and their application in multi-criterion optimization, modeling, and machine learning.