Research Interests

Lab Automation

Enabling scalable, reproducible food experimentation through advanced sensing, robotic handling, and high-throughput physical characterization.

Key Areas:

  • Advanced material sensing
  • Contactless mixing systems
  • High-throughput texture analysis

Agents for Food Design

Developing intelligent agentic systems that reason, design, and monitor food products across formulation, nutrition, and quality dimensions.

Key Areas:

  • Sugar-reduction agents
  • Meal monitoring agents
  • Quality inspection agents

Structural Representation of Food Materials

Creating data-driven representations of food structure that connect composition, processing, and functionality.

Key Areas:

  • Unified food structure datasets
  • Multimodal machine learning
  • Structure-property modeling

Emerging Scientific AI Models for Food

Connecting the most relevant foundation models to experimental food science data across molecular, microstructural, and macroscopic scales.

Key Areas:

  • Protein foundation models for bio-functionality
  • Chemical language models for flavor and aroma identifications
  • Microscopy foundation models for food microstructure