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School of Industrial Technology

Dr. Hayati Samsudin

Expertise: 

  1. Food Packaging Preservation & Safety
  2. Food–Packaging Interactions and Mass Transfer
  3. Biodegradable and Compostable Packaging Materials
  4. Thermally Processed and Packaged Food Products

Hayati Samsudin has been an academic at the School of Industrial Technology, Universiti Sains Malaysia, since 2016. She earned her M.S. and Ph.D. in Packaging from Michigan State University’s School of Packaging, and further broadened her training through a Ph.D. attachment program at the Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo (CIAD), Mexico.
Her core expertise is in food packaging preservation and safety, with longstanding work on biodegradable and compatible materials, packaging additive modification, and food–packaging interactions, including positive and negative migration and mass transfer.
Since 2007, she has consulted, trained, and collaborated with academic and industry partners on packaging performance, regulatory compliance, and shelf-life improvement.
She later broadened her expertise through training and validation in aseptic processing and packaging, which led to a 2022/2023 US Fulbright Malaysian Scholar sabbatical at Purdue University’s Food Entrepreneurship Manufacturing Institute, focusing on thermally processed and packaged foods. This was further complemented by Better Process Control School certification (2023) in thermal processing systems, acidification, and container-closure evaluation.
She has also contributed to advancing standards in sustainable packaging and continues to serve the community as Past Chair (2022–2024) and current Board Member of the Asia Packaging Network.

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