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Dr. Haotian Zheng
Assistant Professor, Department of FOOD, BIOPROCESSING & NUTRITION SCIENCES
Secretary: Dairy Foods Division Council, American Dairy Science Association
Editorial Board Member: Journal of Dairy Science
Editorial Board Member: BMC Chemistry by Springer-Nature
Journal Topics Board Member: Dairy by MDPI
Ph.D., Food Science, University of Otago, New Zealand (2014), Advisor: Dr. David Everett; Dr. Rafael Jimenez-Flores; Dr. Keith Gordon
M.S., Food Technology, Wageningen University, Netherlands (2010), Advisor: Dr. Harry Gruppen; Dr. Peter Wierenga
B.Eng., Food Science & Engineering, Northeast Agricultural University, China (2007)
Postdoctoral researcher
- Qihui Wu (PhD obtained from University of Melbourne)
PhD student:
- Yijing Shao (MS obtained from University of Idaho), research keywords: spectroscopy, UPLC, UHT milk (Lab time 2021-)
- Usman Amin (MS obtained from University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan), research keywords: food hydrocolloid gel, emulsion, LAOS rheology, tangential flow filtration (MF/UF), spray drying (Lab time 2021-)
- Hanyu Shi (MS obtained from Wageningen University), research keywords: protein assemblies, protein functionality, ingredient characterization (Lab time 2022-)
- Evelyn Lin (BS & MS obtained from NC State), research keywords: protein gel, emulsion, LAOS rheology, interfacial characterizations (Lab time 2021-2023 MS; 2023-)
- Tyler Jarrard (MS obtained from BYU), research keywords: tangential flow filtration (ultrafiltration & microfiltration), enzymology, milk protein ingredients, spray drying (Lab time 2023Fall-)
- Zhoutai Teng (MS obtained from UMass-Amherst) (Lab time 2023-), research keywords: protein ingredient functionality
- Sophie Liang (MS obtained from Wageningen University), research keywords: liquid chromatography (for dairy ingredients)
MS student:
- Haoyi An (BS obtained from NC State), research keywords: powder rheology, gel rheology, spectroscopy, interfacial studies (Lab time 2022-)
Research associate:
- Lottie Pate (Undergraduate student, NC State)
Lab Alumni
- Bhavana Uppili (intern, 2020 summer)
- Nikhilesh Gore (temporary lab assistant, 2020-2021)
- Jonathan Strum (temporary lab assistant, 2020-2021)
- Chloe Brubaker (intern 2021 summer)
- Michelle Liang (intern 2021 summer)
- Zuri Kornegay (intern 2021 summer)
- Yueying Lin (NC State GEARS student 2021 summer)
- Siqing Xia (NC State GEARS student 2021 summer)
- Renyuan Li (NC State GEARS student 2021 summer)
- Xinyi Dai (NC State GEARS student 2021 summer)
- Yingying He (NC State GEARS student 2021 summer)
- Avinash Patel (Postdoc. Feb.2021 – Jan.2022)
- Andrew Christenson (MS 2020-2022), project key words: protein aggregates, Pickering emulsion, interfacial studies
- Yueyue Jiang (2022 summer intern from NC State)
- Nicolas Cheng (2022 summer intern from UC Davis; after lab position: Cornell Grad school)
- Sam Wang (2022-2023 research intern; after lab position: Virginia Tech, PhD)
- Min Feng (visiting scholar from Chongqing Technology and Business University, China): (2022-2023)
Zheng Lab 2022
2022 Nov. Lab Barbeque at Jordan Lake, Raleigh, NC
Zheng Lab 2021
Graduate students at Zheng Lab: Usman Amin (PhD student), Yijing Shao (PhD student), Evelyn Lin (MS student), Andrew Christenson (MS student)