Kasiviswanathan Muthukumarappan
Biography
Education
- Ph.D. in agricultural engineering | University of Wisconsin-Madison
- M.S. in food engineering | Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
- B.S. in agricultural engineering | Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, India
- B.S. in mathematics | University of Madras, India
Academic and Professional Experience
Academic Interests
- Food engineering
- Bioprocess engineering
- Biofuels
- Biochemical conversion
Academic Responsibilities
- AST 443, Food Process and Engineering Fundamentals
- ABE 754, Advanced Unit Operations in Food and Biomaterials Processing
- MICR 450/550, Advanced Microbiology and Biotechnology
- AE 795 - Current Topics in Food and Bioprocessing
- ABE 795 鈥 Special Topics 鈥 Dynamic Rheology
- ABE 770 - Special Problems in Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
- ABE 790 - Thesis in Engineering
- ABME 898 鈥 Ph.D. Dissertation
Committees and Professional Memberships
Committees:
- International Committee, SDSU
- Food Engineering Division, Institute of Food Technologists
- Refrigerated and Frozen Foods Division, Institute of Food Technologists
Professional Memberships:
- American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
- Institute of Food Technologists
- American Society of Engineering Education
- Sigma Xi
- American Institute of Chemical Engineers
- Gamma Sigma Delta
Work Experience
March 2023-present, Klingbeil Endowed Department Head and Distinguished Professor, Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, South 啵啵直播秀 State University
May 2022-March 2023, interim department head and Distinguished Professor, Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, South 啵啵直播秀 State University.
February 2013-May 2022, Distinguished Professor and graduate coordinator, Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, South 啵啵直播秀 State University.
July 2006-January 2013, professor, Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, South 啵啵直播秀 State University 鈥 Developed, updated and taught curriculum for undergraduate- and graduate-level courses using effective teaching techniques. Principal investigator on several research projects and advised undergraduate students and graduate students in their academic and research activities. Wrote funded grant proposals, published numerous articles in refereed journals and presented papers at several invited national and international conferences.
March 2007-August 2007, visiting professor, University College Dublin, Ireland 鈥 Worked on a FIRM funded research project titled 鈥淓fficacy of ozone and ultrasound for retention of quality and microbial reduction in fruit juice.鈥 Advised two postgraduate students and one postdoctoral research associate in carrying out both engineering and microbiology aspects of this collaborative food safety project.
July 2001-June 2007, associate professor, Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, South 啵啵直播秀 State University 鈥 Developed, updated and taught curriculum for undergraduate- and graduate-level courses using effective teaching techniques. Principal investigator on several research projects and advised undergraduate students and graduate students in their academic and research activities. Wrote funded grant proposals, published articles in refereed journals and presented papers at several invited national and international conferences.
August 1997-June 2001, assistant professor, Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, South 啵啵直播秀 State University 鈥 Principal investigator on several research projects, advised undergraduate students and graduate students in their academic and research activities. Wrote funded grant proposals, published articles in refereed journals and presented papers at several invited national and international conferences.
August 1993-July 1997, associate researcher, Department of Biological Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison 鈥 Co-principal investigator on several research projects, advised students in academic and research activities, wrote funded grant proposals, published articles in refereed journals and presented papers at several invited national and international conferences.
July 1989-July 1993, graduate research assistant, Department of Biological Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
January 1987-June 1989, graduate research assistant, Division of Agricultural and Food Engineering, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand.
Research and Scholarly Work
Areas of Research
Value addition to South 啵啵直播秀 crops such as corn, soybean, wheat, oats and oilseeds.
- Develop a biorefinery system to produce energy, materials and chemicals from renewable resources, which will have significant positive impacts on national energy security, rural economy and environment.
- Develop the fundamental platform technologies needed to refine biomass into higher-value products (biomaterials, chemicals, fuels and foods). These technologies could utilize a wide range of feedstocks (eg. crop/forestry residues, new biomass crops), converting them into common intermediate compounds (eg. sugars, amino acids, bioactive compounds). These compounds could be final products themselves or could serve as substrates for conversion into dozens of higher-value secondary products (eg. organic acids, biopolymers, nutraceuticals). Specific technologies that are currently under investigation include supercritical pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass to facilitate enzymatic conversion to fermentable sugars.
- Understand the relationship between cheese melting and sensory properties of a wide variety of cheeses. This will enable manufacturers/processors to more accurately and reliably manipulate and control cheese melt properties.
- Develop novel fractionation techniques for separating high value nanoparticles from cheese whey.
- Develop extruded value-added dried distillers drains with solubles and wet distillers grains with solubles.
啵啵直播秀s and Honors
- 啵啵直播秀ed Distinguished Professor and graduate coordinator
- Elected for 2012 American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers Fellow Grade
- Received 2012 F.O. Butler 啵啵直播秀 for Excellence in Service
- Elected as a panel reviewer for 2010-2013 Fulbright Specialist Program
- Invited panel leader for a 2012 U.S. Department of Agriculture-Department of Energy biomass project site visit
- Received 2011 SDSU Griffith Faculty Research 啵啵直播秀
- Invited panel leader for a 2011 U.S. Department of Agriculture-Department of Energy biomass project site visit
- Received 2010 SDSU International/Global Research 啵啵直播秀
- Keynote address at the 2010 International Bioenergy Conference, Beijing, China
- Nominated, elected and received 2009 American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers Evelyn E. Rosentreter Standards 啵啵直播秀
- Nominated and elected as an editor of International Journal of Food and Bioprocess Technology
- Finalist for 2009 Global Venture Challenge International Competition at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
- Nominated, elected and received 2008 American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers Standards Development 啵啵直播秀
- Nominated, elected and received 2008 SDSU College of Engineering Researcher of the Year 啵啵直播秀
- Nominated and elected as the editor of International Journal of Food Properties
- Nominated and received 2006 F.O. Butler Foundation 啵啵直播秀 for Excellence in Research at South 啵啵直播秀 State University
- Nominated and received 2006 Agriculture and Biological Sciences College Dean鈥檚 Team award for developing a bioprocessing center at South 啵啵直播秀 State University in collaboration with South 啵啵直播秀 School of Mines and Technology
- Nominated and received 2006 Institute of Food Technologists 鈥 Food Engineering Division Outstanding Volunteer of the Year 啵啵直播秀
- Nominated and received 2005 Institute of Food Technologists 鈥 Great Plains Section Outstanding Volunteer of the Year 啵啵直播秀
- Nominated and received 2004 Sigma Xi President鈥檚 啵啵直播秀
- Nominated and received 2004 Outstanding Diversity Service 啵啵直播秀
- Nominated and received 2004 American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers Standards Development 啵啵直播秀
- Nominated and received 2003 Gamma Sigma Delta Research 啵啵直播秀
- Nominated and received 2001 Sigma Xi Researcher of the Year 啵啵直播秀
- Nominated and received Outstanding Agricultural Engineering Graduate Student 啵啵直播秀, American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, 1993
- Nominated and received Hisamatsu Prize, Asian Institute of Technology, 1988
- Premier Irrigation Gold Medal, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, 1986
- B.M. Lakshmipathi Medal, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, 1986
- G.R. Varadharajulu Memorial Medal, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, 1986
- Associated Agencies Medal, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, 1986
- TNAU Merit Scholarship, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, 1982
Grants
- A Department of Energy 鈥 Sun Grant Feedstock logistics proposal titled 鈥淭ransforming and Densifying Biomass in Regional Biomass Processing Centers鈥 in collaboration with faculty in SDSU, North 啵啵直播秀 State University, South 啵啵直播秀 School of Mines and Technology, FM, Inc. and MSU.
- A National Science Foundation-Major Research Instrumentation proposal titled 鈥淢RI: Ultra high-performance liquid chromatography tandem mass-spectrometer鈥 in collaboration with faculty in SDSU.
- SD 鈥 Governor 2010 research proposal titled 鈥淐enter for Bioprocessing Research and Development鈥 in collaboration with faculty in Departments of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, Chemistry, Microbiology and Nutrition, Food Science and Hospitality, Enterprise Institute and South 啵啵直播秀 School of Mines and Technology faculty.
- U.S. Department of Agriculture-North Central Agricultural Research Laboratory proposal titled 鈥淓xtrusion Processing of Distillers Dried Grains with Solubles for Aquaculture Feeds.鈥
- U.S. Department of Agriculture-North Central Agricultural Research Laboratory proposal titled 鈥淪torage and Flow Characteristics of Distillers Dried Grains with Solubles.鈥
- U.S. Department of Agriculture Higher Education Challenge Grant titled 鈥淏iobased Products and Bioenergy Multi-University Graduate Program.鈥
- Department of Transportation-Sun Grant proposal titled 鈥淒eveloping a Prairie Biorefinery.鈥
- Department of Transportation-Regional Sun Grant proposal titled 鈥淒evelop sustainable renewable energy systems for practical utilization of bulky biomass.鈥
- Department of Transportation-Regional Sun Grant proposal titled 鈥淒eveloping a Sustainable Feedstock and Next-Generation Processing Technologies for Biofuels Production.鈥
- Dairy Management Inc. proposal titled 鈥淢anufacture of WPC and WPI for use in beverage applications鈥 in collaboration with Lloyd Metzger.
- Dairy Management Inc. proposal titled 鈥淚nstitute for Dairy Ingredients Processing鈥 in collaboration with Lloyd Metzger, V. Mistry, A. Hassan.
- South 啵啵直播秀 Corn Utilization Council proposal titled 鈥淒evelopment of a novel pyrolytic process for the conversion of corn biomass to biofuels and char residue鈥 in collaboration with Hanwu Lei and J. Julson.
- U.S. Department of Agriculture-Sun Grant proposal titled 鈥淒evelopment of an interactive input/output process and cost model with consideration of impacts of the end use of the biochar on the carbon status of the fuels or products made in the thermochemical conversion process鈥 in collaboration with Hanwu Lei, J. Julson.
