Dynamically involved in postharvest processing and preservation related education and research for more than a decade. In due course of time, learned and demonstrated ability in both academic and industry sectors involving project managements, solving industrial problems, guiding and teaching postgraduate students. Able to help incite teamwork and network with businesses and public organizations to create wealthy partnerships. Explicitly have hands-on experience in the areas of food formulations, product and process development, sensory studies, estimation of engineering properties of food materials, compositional studies, and heat-mass transfer analysis. Extensively worked on starch gelatinization and its impact at microscopic and macroscopic level as a part of doctoral research. Served as a Postdoctoral researcher at University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia and Centre for Applied Research, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Lethbridge College, Canada, for over two years on projects dealing with table olive processing and mechanization, non-destructive quality estimation of tree nuts, and onfarm grain handling and drying.
Principal Investigator
- Assessing Driage Needs for Optimal Paddy Milling Outturn Ratio across India Food Corporation of India
- Design and Development of a Semi-Automatic Machine for Multilayered Fruit Leather Production SRIC, IIT KHARAGPUR
- Moodies Ice cream: Development and Commercialization of AI-Integrated Personalized Ice Cream Recommendation System and Dispensing Machine-subproject under Moodies Food and Beverage Innovation Hub (Project code-R/FBI) GloballyGI Experiences Pvt. Ltd.
- Samosa 2.0- Subproject of Moodies - Food and Beverages Innovation Hub (Project Code-R/FBI) GLOBALLYGI EXPERIENCES PRIVATE LIMITED
- Vegitameal-Subproject of Moodies-Food and Beverages Innovation Hub (Project code-R/FBI) GLOBALLYGI EXPERIENCES PRIVATE LIMITED
Co-Principal Investigator
- Development of a new integrated milling and separation process for efficient dry fractionation of chickpeas Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration (SPARC), Apex Committee of SPARC, Ministry of Education
Ph. D. Students
Anjali Singh
Area of Research: Food Engineering
Jyoti
Area of Research: Food processing mechanization
Saikat Bhattacharya
Area of Research: Food Process Engineering
Samaran P
Area of Research: Mechanization in Food Processing
Saptadip Miatur
Area of Research: Millets Processing and Storage
Yaghuvendra Kumar
Area of Research: Grain Processing
MS Students
Ronald Deche Mwandonga
Area of Research: Food Engineering
