**About the Editor**

**Jaya Shankar Tumuluru** is the Principal Investigator of the "Biomass Size Reduction, Drying, and Densification" project funded by the US Department of Energy. His research at INL is focused on mechanical preprocessing and thermal pretreatments of biomass. He has published papers on biomass preprocessing and pretreatments; food processing, preservation, and storage; and prediction and optimization of the bioprocess using artificial neural networks and evolutionary algorithms. He has published more than 100 papers in journals and conference proceedings; presented more than 80 papers at national and international conferences; edited books on biomass preprocessing, valorization, and volume estimation; and published more than 15 book chapters. He was named an R&D 100 Award Finalist in 2018 and 2020 and received the INL Outstanding Engineering Achievement Award in 2019; the Asian American Engineer of the Year Award in 2018; the INL Outstanding Achievement in Scientific and Technical Publication Award in 2014; the Outstanding Reviewer Award for the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers Food and Process Engineering Division in 2013, 2014, and 2016; the Outstanding Reviewer for the journal *Biomass and Bioenergy* in 2015; and the Outstanding Reviewer for the UK Institute of Chemical Engineers in 2011.
