Education: B. Tech., PAU, Ludhiana (1998); M. Tech., PAU, Ludhiana (2001); Ph.D., PAU, Ludhiana (2021)

Positions held: Assistant Professor (Agricultural Engineering), KVK Fatehgarh Sahib, PAU, Ludhiana (2009-2012); Assistant Research Engineer, PAU, Ludhiana (2012-13); Assistant Processing Engineer, PAU, Ludhiana (2013-till date)

Field of Specialization: Processing and Food Engineering

Research Interests:

1. Image Processing of Agricultural Produce
2. Design and Development of equipments related to post harvest technologies of crops
3. GIS and remote sensing based studies on utilization of biomass.

Research Projects:

1. Establishment of Agro Processing centre, training and demonstration of technologies.
2. ICAR-FCI Project: Study on Storage Losses of Food Grains in FCI & CWC warehouses and to recommend norms for storage losses in efficient warehouse management (FCI sponsored).Development and evaluation of percussion based gadget for quality management of stored grains and their milled products.
3. Development of a low cost machine vision system for grading of citrus fruits.
4. Development and evaluation of percussion based gadget for quality management of stored grains and their milled products
5. Establishment of complete value chain of carrot and radish (Primary processing).

Selected Research Publications (Max 5):

1. Rohit Sharma, Mahesh Kumar and M S Alam (2021) Image processing techniques to estimate weight and morphological parameters for selected wheat refractions. Scientific Reports. Vol 11. NAAS Rating (NAAS rating = 10.38)
2. Singla C, Aggarwal R, Kaur S, Sharma R. Analysis of meteorological parameter changes using Mann-Kendall statistical tests in Indian Punjab. Mausam, 74. 207-216. (NAAS rating =6.64)
3. Kanupriya Choudary, M S Alam, Lokesh Jain and Rohit Sharma (2020). Modelling and Optimization of Extrusion Cooking of Broken Rice-Defatted Soy Flour -Vegetable Waste using Genetic Algorithms”. Journal of Agricultural Engineering 57(4), 315-328. (NAAS rating = 5.59)
4. Kaur G, Sharma R and Singh J (2016) GIS based spatial modelling for cost optimized energy generation from biomass. Journal of Agricultural Engineering. 53:16-26.(NAAS rating = 5.59)
5. Sharma R (2016) Decadal Change Analysis of Biomass Intensity and Estimating Surplus Agricultural Biomass using GIS in Punjab. Indian Journal of Economics and Development. 12: 565-572. (NAAS rating = 4.82)

Awards/Honours/Distinctions:

• Awarded Copyright for developed computer software “Expert System for Precision Computation of Automatic Weather Station Data” vide Certificate Number L-47275/2013, from Govt. of India, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Copyright Office, New Delhi. The program can be helpful to all the users taking take data from AWS installed by Indian Meteorological Department at various locations all over the country.