Jaya Shankar Tumuluru
Dr. Jaya Shankar Tumuluru is a Distinguished Staff Engineer in the Biological Processing Department at Idaho National Laboratory (INL). He is the principal investigator for the U.S. Department of Energy-funded "Biomass Size Reduction, Drying, and Densification" project. His research at INL is focused on mechanical preprocessing and thermal pretreatments of biomass. He has published papers on biomass preprocessing and pretreatments, food processing, preservation and storage and prediction and...See more
Dr. Jaya Shankar Tumuluru is a Distinguished Staff Engineer in the Biological Processing Department at Idaho National Laboratory (INL). He is the principal investigator for the U.S. Department of Energy-funded "Biomass Size Reduction, Drying, and Densification" project. His research at INL is focused on mechanical preprocessing and thermal pretreatments of biomass. He has published papers on biomass preprocessing and pretreatments, food processing, preservation and storage and prediction and optimization of the bioprocess using artificial neural networks and evolutionary algorithms. He has published more than 100 papers in journals and conference proceedings; presented more than 80 papers in national and international conferences; edited books on biomass preprocessing, valorization, and volume estimation; and published more than 15 book chapters. He was named an R&D 100 Award Finalist for 2018, and received the INL Outstanding Engineering Achievement Award for 2019; the Asian AmericanEngineer of the Year Award for 2018; the INL Outstanding Achievement in Scientific and Technical Publication Award in 2014; the Outstanding Reviewer Award for the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers Food and Process Engineering Division in 2013, 2014, and 2016; the Outstanding Reviewer for the Biomass and Bioenergy Journal in 2015; and the Outstanding Reviewer for the UK Institute of Chemical Engineers in 2011. See less
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