CARD May 2025 Student Poster Winners
By Victoria Birk Hill June 3, 2025
We are pleased to announce the winners of CARD’s May 2025 poster competition that was held at CARD’s Industry Advisory Board meeting, May 28-30, 2025 at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL. 1st Place: Anurag Bhattacharjee, WPI – “A CFD-Based Numerical Tool to Predict Particle Characteristics in Spray Drying”. 2nd Place tie: Mucheng Li, WPI […]
Itamar Harris Successfully Defends Dissertation Proposal
By Victoria Birk Hill May 2, 2025
We are pleased to share that Itamar Harris, PhD candidate at CARD, WPI, successfully presented her PhD dissertation proposal on April 30, 2025. Her proposed dissertation is titled, “Drying and Heating of Moist Porous Media with Laser Technology: A Fundamental and Applied Study”. Itamar’s committee members consisted of her advisor, Professor Jamal Yagoobi, and […]
Itamar Harris Selected as Winner of WPI’s 17th Annual Sustainability Competition
By Victoria Birk Hill April 22, 2025
We are delighted to announce that PhD candidate Itamar Harris, under the guidance of Dr. Jamal Yagoobi, was selected as the winner of Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s 17th Annual Sustainability Project Competition. Harris presented her project, “Laser Technology for Sustainable Industrial Drying, Baking, and Dehydration,” emphasizing the potential of laser technology to drive decarbonization and accelerate […]
Electric Power Research Institute Visits CARD
By Victoria Birk Hill February 4, 2025
We are pleased to share that Scott Bishop and Baskar Vairamohan, of Electric Power Research Institute, visited the CARD lab at Worcester Polytechnic Institute on February 4, 2025 to explore the new drying technologies being developed within CARD. Featured in the photo are: Back row – Itamar Harris and Hanshen Yu (both PhD students) and […]
CARD Researcher Yash Shah’s Paper Chosen for InterPore Journal Cover
By Victoria Birk Hill January 6, 2025
UIUC’s professor Pawan Takhar’s student Yash Shah’s paper entitled “Hybrid mixture theory-based modeling of unsaturated transport in a deforming porous food matrix during frying” has been selected for the cover page of Interpore Journal. It is an International Society of Porous Media Journal. This is quite an honor since the editors selected it independently. As […]
Mehrnoush Famil Dardashti Successfully Defends PhD
By Victoria Birk Hill December 16, 2024
We are pleased to share that CARD researcher and WPI student, Mehrnoush Famil Dardashti, successfully defended her PhD entitled, “Misting of Liquid and Dehydration of Moist Porous Media with Direct and Airborne Ultrasonic Wave – a Fundamental and Applied Study” on December 9th, 2024. Her research combines a fundamental understanding of ultrasonic atomization and integration […]
Liu’s Group Wins IDS Excellent Poster Presentation Award
By Victoria Birk Hill December 15, 2024
We are pleased to announce that Prof. Yuxiang Liu’s group won the Excellent Poster Presentation Award in the 23rd International Drying Symposium, which was held in Wuxi, China on November 22-25, 2024. The poster title is “Chemical and crystallinity detection with a fiber-based optical sensor for Raman spectroscopy”. The work presented in the poster was […]
CARD Student Poster Winners – October 2024
By Victoria Birk Hill October 30, 2024
We are pleased to announce the following winners of CARD’s Fall 2024 poster competition that was held at CARD’s Industry Advisory Board meeting, October 9-11, 2024 at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA. Featured left to right are Hanshen Yu (honorable mention), Ocean Monjur (2nd place), Mana Masrouri (1st place), Yanyao Yu (3rd place). 1st Place: […]
CARD Researcher Completes Internship at Kerry Group
By Victoria Birk Hill October 8, 2024
Anurag Bhattacharjee, a 4th year PhD student at WPI, recently completed a summer internship with Kerry Group, a global leader in food and beverage solutions. The internship was made possible with the support of the National Science Foundation (NSF), which provided funding for the opportunity. During the internship (June 3rd to August 16th, 2024), Anurag […]
Ramin Nemati Earns 3rd Place at IFT FIRST
By Victoria Birk Hill July 23, 2024
We are delighted to share that CARD researcher, Ramin Nemati, a PhD student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, placed 3rd at IFT FIRST, the largest global food science and innovation expo. The event was held in Chicago, IL, July 13 – 16, 2024. He presented his work on “Non-Destructive Characterization of Wheat-Based Food Microstructure […]