Dr. Subrota Hati is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Dairy Microbiology, SMC College of Dairy Science, Kamdhenu University, Anand, Gujarat, India since 2012. Dr Hati did Master and Doctorate from NDRI Karnal in Dairy Microbiology. Dr. Hati also did post-Doc from University of Queensland, Australia in 2018 under the Indo-Australia Career Boosting Gold Fellowship sponsored by DBT, New Delhi. Dr. Hati published more than 110 research papers in reputed Journals nationally and internationally, 10 review papers and 3 edited books. His total impact Factor is more than 230. He is the secretary of Swedish South Asian Network- Fermented Foods (SASNET-FF), Anand and Executive Editor of International Journal of Fermented Foods. He is also the Editorial board member of Protein and Peptide Letters and Journal of Dairy Research. He also handled the externally funded projects sponsored by DST, DBT, ICAR, Govt. of Gujarat as PI or Co-PI. More importantly, Dr. Hati published more than 33 research papers, 3 review papers and 4 Book chapters on milk peptides with different biofunctionalities. Dr. Surajit Mandal is currently working as Professor at Department of Dairy Microbiology, Faculty of Dairy Technology, West Bengal University of Animal and Fishery Sciences, Kolkata. Before joining the university, he has served as Scientist (Dairy Microbiology) at ICAR-National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal, Haryana, SMC College of Dairy Sciences, Anand, Gujarat. He is associate fellow of National Academy of Dairy Sciences (India). Dr. Mandal visited the Riddet Institute, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand under Indo-New Zealand collaborative research project. He has more than 15-year experiences of teaching, research and extension activities. Dr. Mandal has been working in the area of lactic starter cultures, microencapsulation of probiotic, technology of functional lactic cultures for fermented and non-fermented dairy application, bioactive milk peptides, etc. He has published over 80 research papers/ reviews/ book chapters/ technical articles in journals/ books of national and international repute. He has edited one book and published 10 teaching and training manuals.