Researcher

Fields of Research (FoR)

Food engineering, Food technology, Non-Newtonian fluid flows (incl. rheology), Food properties (incl. characteristics and health benefits), Food chemistry and food sensory science

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Biography

Dr. Yong Wang is Senior Lecturer with the School of Chemical Engineering, UNSW Sydney. He was OECD Fellow for the Co-operative Research Programme: Sustainable Agricultural and Food Systems, collaborating with Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US, April-June 2024. Prior to joining UNSW, he was Research Fellow with Monash University, Clayton, Australia (2019-2020) and Research Scientist (Senior Engineer) with COFCO Nutrition and...view more

Dr. Yong Wang is Senior Lecturer with the School of Chemical Engineering, UNSW Sydney. He was OECD Fellow for the Co-operative Research Programme: Sustainable Agricultural and Food Systems, collaborating with Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US, April-June 2024. Prior to joining UNSW, he was Research Fellow with Monash University, Clayton, Australia (2019-2020) and Research Scientist (Senior Engineer) with COFCO Nutrition and Health Research Institute, Beijing, China (2011-2019), including 6-month Australian Endeavour Fellowship with The University of Queensland in 2016. He got his PhD from joint program of China Agricultural University and University of California Davis in 2011. His research area includes food structure design (including mechanical properties for solid foods and rheological design for liquid/semi-solid foods), food processing technology (drying, emulsion, encapsulation), plant-based food developments, and human mimicking digestion system.

He published 130 journal papers & 8 book chapters (till November 2023), applied 21 patents (8 granted till August 2021), and has 8 public/internal research funds as leader role (over 1 million AU$ in total since 2011).

Editor: Food Chemistry X (Elsevier). Associate Editor: Measurement: Food (Elsevier). Editorial Board Member: Food Chemistry (Elsevier)


My Grants


Projects (2022 - current)

Starting

Duration (year)

Total fund

(AUD$)

Yong Wang, C. Selomulya, et al. Advancing Plant Milk Technologies through Interfacial Rheology. Sanitarium & Future Food Systems CRC

2025

4

$232,000

Yong Wang, C. Selomulya, et al. Australian hazelnuts processing and quality enhancement. AgriFutures Australia

2025

4

$160,000

C. Selomulya, Yong Wang, Weibiao Zhou, Engineering network-forming behaviours of plant proteins. Australian Research Council

2025

3

$699,300

Yong Wang, et al. Development of Alternative Texturisers for Plant-Based Meat. Sanitarium& Future Food Systems CRC

2024

1

$232,000 (stage 1 $12,000)

Yong Wang, W. Kim, J. Vongsvivut, C. Selomulya, Fat distribution in food emulsion gels, ANSTO Synchrotron Grant

2024

1

$132,000 (in-kind)

Yong Wang, et al. Plant-based food/cheese processing technology, Seed Research Grant, UNSW School of Chemical Engineering

2023

1

$19,663

Yong Wang, W. Kim, J. Vongsvivut, C. Selomulya, Surface composition of spray dried β-carotene microcapsules, ANSTO Synchrotron Grant

2022

1

$131,136 (in-kind)

C. Selomulya, Yong Wang, A. Asghari, & B. Corrochano, Engineering improved fat encapsulation for food powders, Linkage Project (LP), Australian Research Council

2022

3

$180,000


My Research Supervision


Supervision keywords


Areas of supervision

Available honours thesis projects (2025-26):

  1. Food 3D printing for nutrients delivery.
  2. Healthy guilty: smart drying to make vegetable chips (non-starch).
  3. Hybrid plant-animal protein systems for food innovation. 
  4. AI and machine learning in food flavour identification.

Available honours thesis projects (2023-24):
1. Functional Analysis of Animal-Free Whey Protein in Food Applications
2. Planted-based meat texturisation and characterisation

3. Enhancing Foaming Properties of Plant-Based Milk for Barista Applications 
4. Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Plant-Based Protein at the Oil-Water Interface: Enhancing Food Emulsion Applications


My Teaching

Currently coordinating & teaching  FOOD4450/8450 Advanced Food Engineering. Also teaching FOOD3801/8801 Unit Operations in Food Processing, FOOD9100 Advanced Processing Technologies, FOOD1120 Food Science, Society and Sustainability, DIET2003 Farm to Fork 1.

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Location

E10, Hilmer Building