Biography

Dr. Hongshun Yang joined the Food Science and Technology Programme, Department of Chemistry at the National University of Singapore (NUS) in June 2013 as an Assistant Professor. He obtained his Ph.D. in Refrigeration and Cryogenics Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China in 2005 and worked as a Research Fellow at Auburn University, USA from 2006 to 2008. Dr. Yang obtained another Ph.D. in Food Science from the University of Minnesota, USA in 2012. And he was a faculty research assistant at the University of Maryland, USA before joining NUS. His research interests are sustainable food processing and safety engineering, which includes organic food processing; food safety engineering; sustainable food processing via byproduct utilization; food nanotechnology, food and health, and food security, especially in seafood, fruits and vegetables, and soybean based food products.