Rajeev Varshney is a geneticist and Principal Scientist, Applied Genomics. He is currently working as Research Program Director, Grain Legumes and Director, Centre of Excellence in Genomics at International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru, India. He also worked with the Generation Challenge Programme (GCP), hosted at CIMMYT, Mexico as Theme Leader - Comparative and Applied Genomics (CAG) from 2007-2013. Research Interest Molecular breeding, computational and comparative and functional genomics in cereals