After earning a Bachelors degree in Agricultural Engineering, he began his professional career as a Trainee Assistant Engineer (Mechanical) with Sugarfed Punjab in January 1991, serving at the Jagraon Cooperative Sugar Mill until March 1995. During this tenure, he was sponsored for higher studies and completed his M.Tech. in Sugar Engineering from Punjab Agricultural University(PAU) between 1992–1994. He joined PAU as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Processing and FoodEngineering on 27th March 1995. Over the years, he progressed as Assistant Professor (Senior Scale), Associate Professor,and currently serving  as Professor. He served as Head of the Department from 20th August 2018 to 21^stAugust 2022 and is presently holding the charge of Additional Director of Research(Agricultural Engineering) since December 2023.In addition to departmental responsibilities, he contributed to the Punjab Horticultural PostHarvest Technology Centre at PAU for over 10 years, where he played a pivotal role in establishing a Moisture Meter Calibration Laboratory.Internationally, hehas participated in training programs and technical meetings in Thailand,USA (North Dakota State University), and the UK (Birmingham), gaining exposure toemerging technologies such as image processing for agricultural produce characterization. He has successfully led 15 externally funded research projects from international, national, andstate-level agencies. He also serves as member of the State Level Approval Committee for food processor support (Govt.of Punjab), member of the Cold Chain Infrastructure Committee for horticulture, state-level advisor for the PMFME Scheme under the Ministry of Food ProcessingIndustries, Government of India.His academic contributions include over 50 peer-reviewed research papers, more than 75extension articles, and supervision of 4 Ph.D. and over 10 M.Tech. students.

Professional Accomplishments

Research Projects:

1. Demonstration of improved technology of packaging, transportation and storage of fruits and vegetables. Punjab Mandi Board
2. Calibration and maintenance of  grain moisture meter especially available with Punjab  State Marketing Board
3. Design development and fabrication of portable maize dryer of 3 ton capacity in the Deptt. of Processing & Food Engg.
4. Development of low cost machine vision system for grading of citrus fruits under AICRP on PHE&T in the Deptt. of Processing & Food Engg.
5. Drying of horticultural produce

 Research Publications :

1. Kumar M and Ghuman B S (2007). Quality changes in processed sand pear slices during storage. J Food Sci Technol 44: 272–275.
2. Kumar M, Bora G and Lin D (2013). Image processing technique to estimate geometric parameters and volume of selected dry beans. J Food Meas Charact 7(1): 10.
3. Kumar M, Alam M S, Kumar S and Singh J (2009). Textural degradative kinetics of selected legumes of Punjab. J Food Legume 22(4): 291–295.
4. Ubhi G S, Kumar M and Mahajan B V C (2013). Solar drying of selected vegetables. J Res Punjab Agric Univ 50(1&2): 39–41.
5. Kumar D, Singh J, Rai D R, Kumar M and Bhatia S (2013). Effect of modified atmospheric packaging on keeping quality of jaggery. Sugar Tech 15(2): 203–208.

Awards and Recognition:

• Got appreciation letter from the Director Horticulture, Punjab for technical services.
• Awarded by Punjab State Market board for services rendered to the organization.
• Conferred best poster award for my research paper in the area of ‘Postharvest management and value addition’ at International Conference on “Green legumes, quality improvement, value addition and trade” at IIPR, Kanpur