Minliang Yang
Asst Professor
Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Schaub Food Science Building 339F
[email protected]Bio
Research Interests
Dr. Yang’s work mainly focuses on developing sustainability solutions for the global food system by applying system-level analysis, including machine learning, techno-economic analysis (TEA), and life-cycle assessment (LCA). In particular, she is interested in exploring the role of plant-based food and cellular agriculture in food sustainability and diverse strategies to mitigate life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions in food and bioprocessing.
Education
Postdoc Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Joint BioEnergy Institute
Ph.D. Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering Iowa State University
M.S. Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering Iowa State University
B.S. Food Science and Technology Henan University of Technology, Henan Province, China
Area(s) of Expertise
- Food Sustainability
- Techno-economic analysis (TEA)
- Life-cycle assessment (LCA)
- Food sustainability analysis
- Biofuel and value-added bioproducts
Publications
- Carbon Emissions in Production and Distribution Pathways of North Carolina’s Local Cut Flower Supply Chains , HortScience (2026)
- Carbonation of supplementary cementitious materials and slag aggregates: Enhancing strength, durability, and CO2 sequestration in mortar , Materials Today Sustainability (2026)
- Cradle-to-grave life-cycle assessment of sustainable packaging for dairy products , Sustainable Food Technology (2026)
- Functionalized benzylamines from commercial kraft lignin , Chemical Engineering Journal (2026)
- Influence of titer, rate, yield, and scale on the cost and life-cycle emissions of biomanufacturing , Trends in biotechnology (2026)
- Pre-Carbonated Steel Slag Aggregates as Reactive Carbon Sinks in Mortar: A Circular Approach to CO2 Sequestration and Structural Enhancement , Sustainability (2026)
- Reducing Fresh Food Loss with An Edible Coating Technology Derived from Seaweed: Application, Technoeconomic, And Environmental Analyses , Research Square (2026)
- A comparative review of food loss and waste: exploring difference between developed and developing countries , Environmental Research Communications (2025)
- Carbon footprint and cost analysis of non-thermal food processing technologies: a review with a case study on orange juice , Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems (2025)
- Environmental impact assessment of generating cold atmospheric pressure plasma and plasma-activated water at lab scale , Sustainable Food Technology (2025)