Russly Rahman

Prof. Dr. Russly A. Rahman is a Professor in Food Engineering and Packaging.  Currently he is serving as professor at two faculties namely Faculty of Food Science and Technology (Department of Food Technology) and at the Faculty of Engineering (Department of Process and Food Engineering). He was the former Director of Halal Products Research Institute of UPM. His teaching activities are mainly in the areas of Halal Food Processing, Food Engineering, Food Packaging, Food Industry, Physical Properties of Foods, Food Machinery Design and Food Unit Operations for both undergraduates (BS) and Postgraduates (MS and PhD). His research interests include the development and design of processes and equipment for food processing, Halal food processing, convenience foods (cook-chilled and cook-frozen, sous-vide, etc.), packaging of food products, postharvest handling of fruits, supercritical fluid extraction, minimal processing, drying, osmotic dehydration, etc. He is heading or part of research teams in many research projects in the described areas.  He is also a consultant to several food companies developing new products e.g. development of halal systems, halal central kitchen development, thermal processing (bottling and canning of products), dehydration of fruits, coconut processing, etc.  He has authored more than 180 publications in refereed and cited journals and also more than 130 in local and international proceedings. He has been invited to give keynote addresses, plenary session speakers and he has presented in more than 100 local, regional and international seminars.  To date he had supervised more than 10 PhD’s, more than 20 Masters and more than 100 BS’s students as a main supervisor and more than 15 PhD’s, 50  Masters as Co-supervisor. He served as external examiners and assessors at many public and private universities examining their food and packaging related bachelor programs which include UKM, UMT, UMK, UTHM, UNISZA, UCTS, UNIKL, SEDAYA, and also as MQA Panel Assessor. He has also been engaged as assessor for staff promotions from other universities such as USM, UKM, IIUM, UMT, UTM, UPM and also from King Saud University, Saudi Arabia. For research grants, he has evaluated proposals for FRGS, ERGS, RACE, Science Fund, Techno Fund, and also RCUK Newton Fund.