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
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
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
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
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