Vivekanand Sadashiv Vadke is a leading process consultant in the vegetable oil industry. He completed his B.Tech. in Chemical Engineering at IIT Kharagpur, M.A.Sc. (chem. Eng.) at the University of Waterloo, Canada, and Ph.D. in Food Science at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. He served for seven years with DeSmet India, where he was in charge of process design and marketing. Dr. Vadke specialises in process design of vegetable oil extraction plants and has helped upgrade many plants across continents to achieve higher process efficiencies and superior product quality, apart from designing new plants based on various oilseeds. He has several research and review papers to his credit and has been a speaker at many conferences. Dr. Vadke is currently engaged in developing novel technologies to find solutions to problems faced by the vegetable oil industry.