An Expert of Canned Foods
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I am a professor of Food Process Engineering at North Carolina A&T State University. Before joining NC A&T, I served as a thermal processing specialist at ConAgra Foods. I earned my Ph.D. from Purdue University, where my dissertation focused on online correction of process-temperature deviations in continuous retorts.
Over the past decade, I have developed a 2D APNS method to model temperature profiles at the slowest-heating point in canned foods, which I published in the Journal of Food Engineering in 2022. Building on this work, I recently developed a web-based software tool to analyze heat penetration data, establish thermal processes, and predict product temperatures under any retort temperature profile. I validated the tool using 25 heat penetration datasets, with strong agreement between predicted and observed results.
7/2023- present Professor, North Carolina A&T State University
7/2016- 6/2023 Associate Professor, North Carolina A&T State University
2/2010-6/2016 Assistant Professor, North Carolina A&T State University
7/2008-1/2010 Thermal Processing Engineer, ConAgra Foods, Omaha, NE
B.S. in Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China 7/1993
M.S. in Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China 3/1996
Ph.D. in Agricultural/Biological Engr., Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 1/2005
