Faculty Khurram Yousaf

Khurram Yousaf

Associate Professor
  • Atta-Ur-Rahman School of Applied Biosciences
  • 0518866165
Summary

Academic Background
PhD (Postharvest Processing) Nanjing Agricultural University September 01, 2014 - July 26, 2018
Honours and Awards
Publications
The Influence of Microbial Fermentation on Growth Performance, Protein Solubility, and Lipid Modulation in the Black Soldier Fly (Hermetia illucens) Larvae October 19, 2026 Insects - Accepted
Greenhouse gas emissions assessment and mitigation potential in Pakistan's cattle and Buffalo sector: An IPCC tier 2 inventory method with probabilistic uncertainty modeling January 01, 2027 Agricultural Systems - Volume:240, Article Number 104994
Non-destructive detection for early-stage blueberry bruise via spectral reshaping and dynamic attention-driven deep learning March 16, 2026 Postharvest Biology and Technology - Volume 237, Article Number 114310
Postharvest preservation of apples and potatoes using a Dictyosphaerium algal oil emulsion–chitosan hydrogel coating: efficacy against Enterobacter mori. March 01, 2026 Materials Today Communications - Volume:52, Article Number 115051
CSP-YOWO-TrajNet: A spatio-temporal detection method for laying hen heat stress behavior February 01, 2026 Journal of Thermal Biology - Volume 136, Article Number 104396
How likely are high schools to adopt vegetable gardens to combat food insecurity? October 27, 2025 Environment Development and Sustainability - Pages 1-19
Phytochemical and biological characterization of extracted natural colors from fruits of monotheca buxifolia July 30, 2025 Scientific Reports - Volume:15, Issue:1, Article Number 27842
An enhancement algorithm for head characteristics of caged chickens detection based on cyclic consistent migration neural network June 01, 2024 Poultry Science - Volume 103, Issue 6, Article Number 103663
Assessing the factors of economic and environmental inefficiency of sunflower production in Pakistan: an epsilon-based measure model September 28, 2023 Frontiers in Environmental Science - Volume 115, Article Number: 1186328
On-line weight estimation of broiler carcass and cuts by a computer vision system December 01, 2021 Poultry Science - Volume 100, Issue 12, Article Number 101474
Drying process optimization of garlic slices in closed-loop heat pump drying system by Box-Behnken design December 01, 2021 Journal of Food Processing and Preservation - Pages 1-9, Article Number e16190
An Introduction of Biomimetic System and Heat Pump Technology in Food Drying Industry June 09, 2021 Book on Biomimetics - Chapter 7, Pages 1-16
Effect of moisture on physico-engineering properties of two husked and de-husked Chinese rice varieties June 02, 2021 International Agricultural Engineering Journal - Volume 30(2), Pages 67-74
Pyrolysis Kinetics and Thermodynamic Parameters of Ginkgo Biloba Residues using Thermogravimetric Analysis December 30, 2020 Interciencia - Volume 45(5), Pages 74-96
Study on Detection Method of Vomitoxin in Flour Based on Enrichment Treatment December 23, 2020 Interciencia - Volume 45(3), Pages 274-297
Influence of environmental conditions on drying efficiency and heat pump performance in closed and open loop drying of paddy December 01, 2020 Drying Technology - Volume 38, Issue 16, Pages 2217-2230
Extraction Optimization, Purification and Immunostimulatory Activity in vitro of Polyphenols from Apple (Malus domestica) Peel July 01, 2020 Sains Malaysiana - Volume 49(7), Pages 1553-1566
Efficient pyrolysis of ginkgo biloba leaf residue and pharmaceutical sludge (mixture) with high production of clean energy: Process optimization by particle swarm optimization and gradient boosting decision tree algorithm May 01, 2020 Bioresource Technology - Volume 304, Article Number 123020
An experimental study of stunned state detection for broiler chickens using an improved convolution neural network algorithm March 01, 2020 Computers and Electronics in Agriculture - Volume 170, Article Number 105284
Broiler stunned state detection based on an improved fast region-based convolutional neural network algorithm January 01, 2020 Poultry Science - Volume 99, Issue 1, Pages 637-646
Tomato volume and mass estimation using computer vision and machine learning algorithms: Cherry tomato model December 01, 2019 Journal of Food Engineering - Volume 263, Pages 288-298
Experimental Study of Drying Characteristics and Mathematical Modeling for Air Drying of Germinated Brown Rice August 21, 2019 Sains Malaysiana - Volume 48, No.10, Pages 2093-2101
The optimization of starch gelatinization and quality attributes under hydrothermal treatment of paddy by response surface method April 18, 2019 Fresenius Environmental Bulletin - Volume 28, No. 4, Pages 2771-2779
An Investigation of a Root Zone Heating System and Its Effects on the Morphology ofWinter-Grown Green Peppers March 11, 2019 Energies - Volume 12(5), Article Number 933
Response surface methodology for optimisation and mathematical modelling of physico-engineering properties of paddy rice March 07, 2019 Fresenius Environmental Bulletin - Vol. 28, 11, Pages:7787-7794
Automatic measurement method of volume and surface area of jujube based on laser point cloud March 01, 2019 International Agricultural Engineering Journal - Volume 28, No. 1, Pages 259-268
Short-term responses of soil Cone Index and Biopore with different rates of straw incorporation in Rice-Wheat cropping system December 29, 2018 Fresenius Environmental Bulletin - Vol. 27, 5A, Pages:3452-3461
Implementation of a novel approach for the evaluation of energy efficiency, management needs and sustainability of wheat production December 22, 2018 Fresenius Environmental Bulletin - Vol. 27, 10, Pages:6695-6703
Fracture resistance of paddy as influenced by moisture, variety, orientation and loading rate under quasi-static compressive load December 01, 2018 International Agricultural Engineering Journal - Volume 27, No. 4, Pages 364-370
Improving energy use efficiency of corn production by using data envelopment analysis (a non-parametric approach) November 28, 2018 Fresenius Environmental Bulletin - Volume 27, No. 7, Pages 2725-2733
Effect of multi-stage drying on energy consumption, the rate of drying, rice quality and its optimization during parboiling process November 22, 2018 Fresenius Environmental Bulletin - Volume 27, No.12, Pages 8270-8279
Performance Evaluation of Root Zone Heating System Developed with Sustainable Materials for Application in Low Temperatures November 10, 2018 Sustainability - Volume 10(11), Article Number 4130
Effects of Different Drying Methods on Some Physical and Chemical Properties of Loquat (Eriobotrya japonica) Fruits November 01, 2018 International Journal of Fruit Science - Volume 18, Issue 4, Pages 345-354
Design and Thermal Analysis of an Air Source Heat Pump Dryer for Food Drying September 08, 2018 Sustainability - Volume 10(9), Article Number 3216
Comparitive analysis of energy use efficiency in food grain production systems of pakistan May 03, 2018 Fresenius Environmental Bulletin - Volume 27(2), Pages 1053-1059
Hydrothermal treatment under pressure on head rice yield and other quality attributes of Indica and Japonica rice cultivars March 01, 2018 International Agricultural Engineering Journal - Volume 27(1), Pages 188-197
Effectiveness of computer vision system and back propagation neural network in poultry stunning prediction January 09, 2018 International Agricultural Engineering Journal - Volume 27, No.1, Pages 289-297
Contextual evaluation of a corn sheller and its vulnerability to different cultivars November 22, 2017 International Agricultural Engineering Journal - Volume 27(1), Pages 1-16
The Optimization and Mathematical Modeling of Quality Attributes of Parboiled Rice Using a Response Surface Method November 20, 2017 Journal of Food Quality - Volume 2017, Article ID 5960743, 13 pages
Energy Use Efficiency in Wheat Production, A Case Study of Paunjab Pakistan November 09, 2017 Fresenius Environmental Bulletin - Volume 26, No. 11, pages 6773-6779
Quantification of mechanization index and its impact on crop productivity and socio-economic factors September 01, 2017 International Agricultural Engineering Journal - Volume 26(3), Pages 59-64
Optimizing the impact of temperature on bio-hydrogen production from food waste and its derivatives under no pH control using statistical modelling November 13, 2015 Biogeosciences - Volume 12, issue 21, Pages 6503–6514
Effect of Field Plot Design on the Efficacy of Boom Sprayer December 25, 2014 Universal Journal of Agricultural Research - Volume 2(7), Pages 236-241
Conferences
Effect of Drying Methods and Parboiling Conditions on Amylose Content and Parboiled Rice Quality July 17, 2022 - July 20, 2022 khurram yousaf, Kunjie Chen, Zhenwei Yu, 2022 ASABE Annual International Meeting
Heterojunction Silicon Photoconverters Obtained By The Evaporation Method in A Vacuum January 30, 2019 - January 31, 2019 Shoirbek Olimov, Chen Nuo-fu, A.M. Kasimakhunova, Syed Jawad Ali Shah, khurram yousaf, Numan Abbas, Tao Quan-li, Yang Xiu-Yu, 2019 2nd International Conference on Computing, Mathematics and Engineering Technologies, iCoMET
Experiment and Amount Optimization Analysis of Oil-Water Mixture Frying Machine Based on FLUENT November 23, 2016 - November 25, 2016 Xuejing Zhang, Zhenwei Yu, khurram yousaf, Kunjie Chen, 2016 International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Optimization Technologies and Applications (MSOTA 2016)
Post-Doc Nanjing Agricultural University, China June 29, 2018 - October 15, 2020
Research Assistant innovative development strategies pvt ltd January 01, 2013 - August 31, 2014