AgInsight 2024 Chief Guest and Keynote Speakers

Prof. Harold Corke is a professor in the Biotechnology and Food Engineering Program, Guangdong Technion Israel Institute of Technology (GTIIT). Previously, he was included in Shanghai’s key talent program and was full-time Chair Professor in the Department of Food Science and Technology, School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, from 2016 to 2020. Before that he was Professor in Food and Nutritional Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, where he spent 24 years.

Prof. Corke is active in both basic and applied research in grain processing, genetics of grain quality, and chemistry of plant bioactives. He has published more than 330 international journal papers (37,932 citations, h-index 95, Google Scholar, February 2024) and has graduated dozens of PhD students who have gone on to academic and industry careers around the world. He was editor of the Elsevier Encyclopedia of Food Grains (2016) and is an editor of the Journal of Cereal Science and LWT – Food Science and Technology.