Dr. Davoud Torkamaneh is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Plant Science, Faculty of Agriculture and Food Sciences, Université Laval, Canada. Before joining Université Laval, he was an Associate Professor in Computational Biology at the University of Guelph. He obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Agronomy from the University of Applied Sciences and Technology in Tehran, and his Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Plant Biology from Université Laval. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Computational Biology at Université Laval and the University of Guelph. Dr. Torkamaneh is interested in the interaction between computation and plant biology (computational biology of plants). He uses multidisciplinary approaches that combine bioinformatics analysis, modeling, and prediction with experimental verification to visualize plant genome evolution. He has established a cannabis genomics research program to study the translational and functional aspects of the properties of this species, the first of its kind in the country. He is also implementing an innovative genomics-based platform to standardize the production, quality, safety, and regulation of cannabis for medical purposes.