P. Kumar Mallikarjunan
Biography
Kumar Mallikarjunan is a food engineer, a researcher, and an educator. For more than 25 years, he has contributed significantly to the field of food science and technology through his research on frying technology, microwave-assisted extraction of phytochemicals, and development of rapid methods to characterize food products via electronic nose and infrared spectroscopy. He helped lead multi-institutional research on aflatoxin mitigation and management in the peanut value chain in sub-Saharan Africa.
