Professor Dr Ida Idayu Muhamad is an expert in food and bioprocessing engineering, focusing on food handling and preservation, biopolymers and food security. As a Food Lead auditor, she trains food industries to implement and audit industrial food safety systems (GMP, GHP, cGMP and HACCP) and Halal Management. She has received more than 70 research grants of a cumulative RM 10,728,525 (USD 2,653,781). She is a project leader of 28 grants with cumulative amounts of RM 6,046,147 (USD 484,081). She received a commercialisation grant for two spin-off companies under MTDC-UTM of RM4 million (USD 1,206,993), an international grant and consultancy work on chemical & bioprocess engineering education and research amounted to RM 342,928.78 (USD 731,441). She has supervised and co-supervised more than 60 post-graduate students and post-doctorates. She served as a technical panel to assess grants applications such as e-Science fund and Technofund for MOSTI and reviewer for 21 peer-reviewed ISI journals. She founded the Food and Biomaterial Engineering Research Group, also known as FoBERG. FoBERG is a research group that focuses on food and biomaterial engineering in the School of Chemical and Energy Engineering, UTM. Professor Dr Ida has more than 140 publications in international peer-reviewed and Scopus-indexed journals, six books and 38 book chapters and edited books on Food, Advance Bioprocess Technology, Probiotics, and Nanomedicine. With more than 1,389 citations, her Scopus H-index is 20.