Ms. Shikhadri Mahanta is a PhD student in the department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering at Texas A&M University. Her research is focused on developing engineering techniques to increase the of wheat flour. Shikhadri started her work at Wheat Marketing Center (WMC) in June 2022 to understand the effects of a novel technology called Atmospheric Cold Plasma on soft wheat and hard wheat flours, plus end-products such as cakes and breads!