Prof. Haroon Rashid Naik is the Director planning and monitoring at Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Science and Technology, Kashmir, J&K, India. He established the department of Food technology at IUST Awantipura and created the food tech programs in SKUAST. He has supervised more than 20 MSc. Students and 18 Ph.D students. His areas of interest include design and development of food processing machinery, new innovations in food processing and management of research activities.