Viswanathan Chinnusamy received the B.Sc. degree from the Agricultural College and Research Institute, TNAU, Killikulam, in 1990, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, in 1993 and 1996, respectively. He was a Senior Scientist, from 1996 to 2010, and a BOYSCAST Fellow, from 2001 to 2002. From 2008 to 2010, he was a Visiting Researcher with the Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California. In 2009, he was a Visiting Scholar with the Department of Molecular Biology, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston. He has been a Principal Scientist, since 2010, and the Head of the Division of Plant Physiology, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, since 2013. He is a fellow of the Indian Society for Plant Physiology. His awards/honours include the ICAR Jawaharlal Nehru Award, in 2001; the DST BOYSCAST Fellowship Award, in 2001; and the ISPP J.J. Chinoy Gold Medal.

Dr. Rabi Narayan Sahoo is a Principal Scientist working in the Division of Agricultural Physics, ICAR-IARI, New Delhi. Dr Sahoo works on applications of remote sensing and GIS in agriculture mainly hyperspectral remote sensing (ground, aerial and satellite platform) of soil and crop health for Precision Agriculture, high throughput sensor based Plant Phenomics, radiative transfer modelling and land use cover change. Dr Sahoo is leading a National Network program on Imaging Spectroscopy and Applications. Dr. Sahoo has authored more than 230 publications having 115 peer reviewed journal papers.