Swetha Sivakumar

Title: Recipe Developer

Location: Austin, TX

Swetha Sivakumar is a columnist at the Hindustan Times, an industrial engineer, and recipe developer who writes the blog Upgrade My Food. She lives in Austin, TX with her husband and two daughters.

Experience

I have a Masters in Industrial Engineering and have been blogging about the science of food on my blog since 2016. I have been writing weekly columns on food science for Hindustan Times—the 2nd largest newspaper publication in India—since 2021. I am from India, but I have lived in the US for the past 22 years.

Education

Masters Degree in Industrial Engineering from The Ohio State University, Bachelor's degree in Biomedical Instrumentation from Avinashilingham University, Coimbatore.

About Serious Eats

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