Formal Education
Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India, B. Tech, Agriculture Engineering, 1993
Asian Institute of Technology, Klong Luang, Thailand, M.Eng., Post Harvest and Food Pr. Eng., 1996
Purdue University, PhD, Food Process Eng., 2001

Professional Memberships
Institute of Food Technologists
American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
American Institute of Chemical Engineering
NC-1023 USDA Multistate Project on Food Engineering

Areas of Expertise
Value-added processing of foods; design of transport process, prediction of fracture formation in foods during processing storage and shipping; using multiscale porus media approach to study fluid and ion transport in food and animal tissues; NMR imaging of moisture transport; Rheological characterization of food and animal products; Modeling of microbial kinetics in animal products (ground beef, turkey, ground pork); Stochastic modeling; Thermal processing of foods; Design of starch-foams; Computational fluid dynamics based design of smokehouses for improving quality of meat and fish products.