Dr. Sajid Alavi is a Professor in the Department of Grain Science and Industry at Kansas State University. He received his B.S. in Agricultural Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in 1995, M.S. in Agricultural and Biological Engineering from Pennsylvania State University (USA) in 1997, and Ph.D. in Food Science/Food Engineering from Cornell University (USA) in 2002. He joined the Department of Grain Science and Industry at Kansas State University in 2002. His research interests are in the general area of food engineering and more specifically focused on extrusion processing in food, pet food and feed applications, rheology, microstructure imaging, structure–texture relationships, advances on the interface of processing and nutrition, process sustainability, and use of AI and machine learning tools in processing. He received the 2010 Young Research Scientist Award from the Cereals & Grains Association (formerly AACC International and American Association of Cereal Chemists).