Sajid Alavi received his B.S. in "Agricultural Engineering" from "Indian Institute of Technology", India in 1995, M.S. in "Agricultural and Biological Engineering" from Pennsylvania State University, PA in 1997 and Ph.D. in “Food Science/Food Engineering" from "Cornell University", Ithaca, NY in 2001.He joined the Department of Grain Science and Industry at Kansas State University in 2002. Dr. Alavi's research interests lie in food engineering and more specifically in the areas of extrusion processing of food and feed materials, rheology, food microstructure imaging and structure - texture relationships. Dr. Alavi's teaching interests include graduate and undergraduate level courses in Extrusion Processing. These include a senior level course in 'Extrusion processing in food & feed industries in the Fall and a graduate level course 'Advanced extrusion processing' every other Fall. He is also the instructor for an undergraduate level course in food engineering, 'Introduction to food engineering' in the Spring.