Advisory Board

Emeritus Professor (Food Technology), IIT Kharagpur Professor I/c & Nodal Officer (P) Agri Business Incubation Centre, IIT Kharagpur Director, Agri Business Incubation Foundation IIT Kharagpur Trustee, International Life Science Institute (ILSI-India), New Delhi Director, Prasan Solutions (India) Pvt. Ltd. Cochin, Kerala Scientific Advisor, Vitaliz Biosciences Pvt. Ltd. Bengaluru, Karnataka AICTE Mentor, BVB College of Engineering & Technology Hubli, Karnataka AICTE Mentor, Ramgarh Engineering College, Ramgarh (Jharkhand) President (Past), Association of Food Scientists & Technologists (India) Chairman & Head (Former), Post Harvest Technology Centre, IIT Kharagpur Chairman (Former), Hall Management Centre, IIT Kharagpur Agricultural & Food Engineering Department Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur-721302, India. Professor HN Mishra, having over 37 years of professional experience in teaching, research and administration, has many laurels and awards to his credit. He has published 625 research papers including 267 in peer reviewed international journals & 358 in conference proceedings. He has written 4 books, 4 e-books, 35 book chapters, 7 lecture compendium & laboratory manuals, 4 technology manuals, and several popular articles in newspapers and magazines and has 14 Indian patents to his credit. Besides, he is on the editorial boards of several reputed journals. He has supervised more than 286 student research projects including 12 PDF and 50 Ph D research scholars including 2 PMRF & 7 GYTI awardees. Professor Mishra has handled several international and national sponsored research & industrial consultancy projects. He has created stat-of-the art research laboratory and pilot plants for food processing and preservation. Dr Mishra has received several awards & honours such as AIFPA Presidents’ Award, GYTI Award, NRDC Award, Best Teacher Award, Dr JS Pruthi Award, etc for his outstanding contribution in the field of food processing in the country. Professor Mishra has worked in different capacities on various academic and administrative committees of IIT Kharagpur and many other institutions in the country. He has visited several countries abroad including Taiwan, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Australia, Turkey, UAE, France, Switzerland, Denmark, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Ireland, UK, Belgium, USA and Canada. Professional details of Professor HN Mishra are briefly summarized as follows. It can also be seen at http://www.iitkgp.ac.in/department/AG/faculty/ag-hnm or http://www.fctliitkgp.co.in or https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=I3Tfd5oAAAAJ&hl=en Email: hnm@agfe.iitkgp.ac.in Web : www.fctliitkgp.co.in

Chef Sinu Pillai is an internationally trained Certified Corporate Chef with an experience of over 18 years within luxury English Hotels, Cruise line and well renowned haute-cuisine classic restaurants. He just loves nothing more than adding his craft and creativity to menus that offer new experiences. He has an incredible culinary art and extensive track record throughout his career, which attributes his ability to challenge himself and his team to learn, achieve and deliver only the very best world class cuisine., a quintessential Chef.! He combines high level culinary skills with a hands-on approach to ensure hautecuisine kitchen operation is planned, prepared, and ran efficiently. He has proven success in driving high performance kitchen teams by aiming towards the highest of quality, driven by creativity as well as constantly following world trends and food presentations/shows also by keeping strong hold on HSQ global standards. His passion not only creative menu engineering or fusion delights, but creating very passionate culinary team around him which would create an food aura, a key element in Chef’s quality in modern European, classical & contemporary Indian, classical French, modern English and molecular gastronomy. He stands tall by receiving awards and new initiatives with many live cooking shows internationally.! He is our Culinary Director.! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG1m7ZqOKA