Vijay Kumar Bansal is a faculty member of the Department of Civil Engineering at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Hamirpur, India. He has more than two decades of experience in teaching, research, and fieldwork in project management: he is a resource person for many international e-learning hubs, has guided many Ph.D. and Master's Programme theses, and has completed many research projects. The author's research interests include 4D scheduling, repetitive scheduling, location-based planning scheduling, etc. He has contributed many research papers to national and international journals, conferences, and magazines, published by Taylor & Francis, American Society of Civil Engineers, Elsevier and Springer, and others. Apart from teaching and research, the author has worked in relevant positions such as executive engineer and associate dean.