Area of Research	Heat and mass transfer modeling, microwave curing, drying, food and dairy engineering
Education	PhD Dairy Engineering
Current projects
Awards and recognitions	Gold medal in PhD for academic excellence from National Dairy Research Institute on 4th March 2017 (15th Convocation) Awarded with Maulana Azad National Fellowship for the year 2013-14 by UGC during PhD Awarded with Senior Research Fellowship with Fellowship-2013 of ICAR, New Delhi Rank holder in B.Tech Dairy Science & Technology at Kerala Agricultural University
Publications (Best 5 publications)	Neethu, K.C., Sharma A.K., Heartwin A. Pushpadass, Magdaline Eljeeva Emerald, F. and Manjunatha, M. 2016. Prediction of convective heat transfer coefficient during deep-fat frying of pantoa using neurocomputing approaches. Innovative Food Science and Emerging Technologies, vol. No. 4, pp. 275-284 Magdaline Eljeeva Emerald, F., Heartwin A. Pushpadass, Neethu, K.C., Sivaram, M. and Nath, B.S. 2016. Modeling the kinetics of physicochemical and textural qualities of pantoa (Indian dairy dessert) during deep-fat frying. Journal of Food Processing and Preservation, DOI:10.1111/jfpp.12805 Neethu, K. C., Magdaline Eljeeva Emerald, F., Heartwin A. Pushpadass, Menon Rekha Ravindra, Jayaraj Rao, K. and Surendra Nath, B. Analysis of transient heat and mass transfer during deep-fat frying of pantoa. 2014. Journal of Food Processing and Preservation, doi:10.1111/jfpp.12310 Neethu, K.C., Magdaline Eljeeva Emerald, F., Heartwin A. Pushpadass. Measurement and Prediction of Thermal Properties of Pantoa during Deep-Fat Frying. 2020. Indian Journal of Dairy Science Vol. 73, No.1, pp. 7-12 Neethu K. C., Dhinesh G., Dharani G. Analysis of Paddlewheel Mixing System for Algal Biomass Production in Raceway Ponds using Simulation Techniques. 2020. Journal of Experimental Zoology, India, Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 475-483 Magdaline Eljeeva Emerald, F., Neethu, K.C. 2017. Modeling the heat and mass transfer during deep-fat frying Deep-fat frying of Indian Dairy Product (Pantoa), LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing ISBN-13: 978-3-659-92349-4