Activities
Technical Sessions Organized and Chaired
Co-Chair, 13th International Halal Food Conference; Halal: New Frontiers, Schaumburg, IL, April 10-11, 2011
Co-organizer and Co-Chair of Symposium “What the Religious Communities in American Expect from the Food Industry”. IFT Annual Meeting of the Institute of Food Technologist, Anaheim, CA., June 6-9, 2009
Co-Chair - 11th International Halal Food Conference, Halal Foods 2009. Using Halal Certification to Your Marketing Advantage, Chicago, IL, April 19, 2009.
Chair – Oil Innovative/New Industrial uses (Industrial uses of soybean and by –products). Fifth International Soybean Processing and Utilization Conference (ISPUC-V 2008)”. Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Bhopal, India. Dec. 12, 2008
Co-Chair of the XII Feed Technology Symposium Session at the 1st International Congress Food Technology Quality and Safety, Institute for Food Technology and IFIF International Feed Industry Federation, Novi Sad, Serbia Nov. 13-15, 2007.
Co-Organizer for the International Symposium on Emerging Trends in Food Science and Technology, (USA side), National Institute of Food Science and Technology, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan. Nov. 6-7
Co-Chair (Session-1) of the 18th All Pakistan Food Science Conference, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan, Nov. 5, 2007.
Co-organizer and Co- chair of “Protein Extrusion: Technology and Applications” session at the 96th Annual Meeting of the American Oil Chemists' Society, Salt Lake City, UT. May 1-4, 2005.
Organizer and Chair of “New Technology and Quality Control of Flour Processing“ session of the International Symposium on the Safety of Cereal, Oil & Food Shanghai, China, June 13-17, 2004.
Organizer and Chair of “Modern Processing and Utilization for Foods (Processing and Utilization for Foods), Symposium at the IV International Soybean Processing and Utilization Conference, Foz do Iguassu, PR, Brazil Feb. 29 to March 5, 2004.
Co-organizer and Co-Chair of “Alternative & Newer Processing Technology” Session at the China & International Soybean Conference & Exhibition, Beijing, China. November 6-9, 2002.
Co-organizer and Co-Chair of Poultry/Aquaculture Feed Nutrition and Processing” session at the World Conference and Exhibition on Oilseed and Edible, Industrial and Specialty Oils: Sources, Processing, By-Products, Utilization and Feed Formulations, Applications and Functionality. Istanbul, Turkey, August 12-15, 2002.
Organizer and Chair of “Aquaculture and Poultry Feed” Pre-Conference Short Course at the World Conference and Exhibition on Oilseed and Edible, Industrial and Specialty Oils: Sources, Processing, By-Products, Utilization and Feed Formulations, Applications and Functionality. Istanbul, Turkey, August 10, 2002.
Co-organizer and Co-Chair of “Protein Modification and Utilization” session at the 93rd Annual Meeting of the American Oil Chemists' Society, Montreal, Canada, May 5-8, 2002.
Co-organizer and Co-Chair of Special Symposium “Global Perspectives on Functional Foods.” Annual Meeting of the American Association of Cereal Chemists, Kansas City, MO. Nov. 5-9, 2000
Chair for the session “Food” at the 2nd International Science Conference, Science International, Institute of Chemical Engineering and Technology, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan. Oct. 26-28, 2000.
Co-organizer and Co-Chair of “Extrusion” session at the 11th Cereal and Bread Congress; Cereal; Health and Life. ANA Gold Coast Hotel, Surfers Paradise, Queensland, Australia. Sep. 8-15, 2000.
Co-organizer and Co-Chair of “Nutraceuticals/Functional Foods” Symposium at the IFT annual Meeting of the Institute of Food Technologist, Dallas, TX. June 10-14, 2000
Co-organizer and Co-Chair of “Aquaculture/Feed Microscopy” session at the 91st Annual Meeting of the American Oil Chemists' Society, San Diego, April 25-28, 2000.
Co-organizer and Co-Chair of “Current Trends and Issues in Functional Foods” Symposium at the AACC annual Meeting of the American Association of Cereal Chemist, Seattle, WA. Oct. 31-Nov. 3, 1999.
Co-organizer and Co-Chair of “Food & Religion, Ethnic Issues for Foods”. Session at the 10th world Congress of Food Science & Technology, Sydney Australia. Oct. 3-8, 1999.
Chair and Co-organizer of the “Nutraceuticals/Functional Foods” Short Course at University of Hong Kong. Sep. 29-30, 1999.
Chair, International ZDS Seminar on “Petfood Technologies”, SIA-49. Zentralfachschule der Deutschen SuBwarenwirtschaft e.V. ZDS, Solingen, Germany, Sep. 13-14. 1999.
Co-organizer and Co-Chair of “Processing of Nutraceuticals/Functional Foods” Symposium at the IFT annual Meeting of the Institute of Food Technologist, Chicago, IL. July 24-28, 1999
Co-organizer and Co-Chair of “Nutraceuticals III ”session at the 90th Annual Meeting of the American Oil Chemists' Society, Orlando, FL. May 9-12, 1999.
Co-organizer and Co-Chair of Processing of Nutraceuticals/Functional Foods’ Symposium at the IFT annual Meeting of the Institute of Food Technologist, Atlanta, GA June 20-24, 1998
Organizer of the annual “Pet Food and Feed Extrusion”, “Snack Food Processing”, “Aquaculture Feed Preparation, Nutrition and Feed Management and Texturized Vegetable Protein” Short Courses at Texas A&M University, (1992-Present)
Co-Chair (Session-III) of the 3rd Int’l Conference on The Impact of Food Research on New Product Development, Karachi, Pakistan, March 3-6, 97
Co-organizer and Co-Chair of “Protein and Co-Products in Aquaculture Feed” 86th Annual Meeting of the American Oil Chemists' Society, San Antonio, TX. May 7-11, 1995.
