Dr. Saghir Ahmad is presently the professor and chairman in the Department of Post Harvest Engineering & Technology under the faculty of Agricultural Sciences, A.M.U. He is the renowned scientist in the area of meat processing and preservation. He passed his B.Tech and M.Tech in food Technology from a very premier Institution, HBTI, Kanpur. He completed his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Post Harvest Engineering & Technology A.M.U, on the topic of meat processing. He has thirty three years experience of industry, teaching and research. He completed two ICAR funded projects during 1999 -2008. He was associated as team leader in one of projects of all India coordinated Research Project (AICRP) during 2007-2015. He is member of the several scientific societies viz., Indian Science Congress, AFST Mysore etc. He published fifty three research papers in the journals of national and international repute. He participated in more than twenty conferences and presented forty papers. He published two book from international publication and edited another book in Springer business media limited New York. He contributed six chapters in his edited book. He supervised fifty one M.Tech dissertations and guided five Ph.Ds. in the relevant discipline. He designed two equipments during his work in ICAR funded project. These equipments are sausage cooker and smoke house. He was given team award in 2005 during ISAE, annual convention at TANAU, Coimbatore.