Indian-American professor R Paul Singh on July 2, 2015 named as the 2015 Global Confederation for Higher Education Associations for Agriculture and Life Sciences World Agriculture Prize laureate. The award will be formally presented on September 20, 2015 during a ceremony at Nanjing Agricultural University, Jiangsu Province, China.

The award was announced at the annual GCHERA conference. The conference was held in first week of June 2015 at the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik, Jounieh, Lebanon.

About R Paul Singh

R Paul Singh earned a bachelor’s degree in agricultural engineering at India’s Punjab Agricultural University, then a master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Ph.D. from Michigan State University. He joined the UC Davis faculty one year later in 1975. He is known for a body of research in areas such as energy conservation, freezing preservation, post-harvest technology and mass transfer in food processing.

He is also known as distinguished professor emeritus who has held dual appointments in the departments of Biological and Agricultural Engineering and of Food Science and Technology at the University of California, Davis.

His Research

His research on airflow in complex systems helped design innovative systems for the rapid cooling of strawberries, and his studies on food freezing led to the development of computer software that is used to improve the energy efficiency of industrial freezers.

Under a NASA contract, his research group created food- processing equipment for a manned mission to Mars. He has helped establish and evaluate food-engineering programs at institutions throughout the world, including in Brazil, India, Peru, Portugal and Thailand.

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