Dr. Surya Kant works as a research leader and has led a research team at Agriculture Victoria Research based at Grains Innovation Park, Horsham, since 2011. He also holds a joint appointee position of Senior Research Fellow with the School of Applied Systems Biology at La Trobe University. Surya has more than 25 years of international research experience. Prior to this, he held research scientist positions for 12 years at the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Guelph, Canada (2006–2011), the Department of Dryland Biotechnology, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel (2002–2006), and the Faculty of Agricultural, Food, and Environmental Quality Sciences, Israel (2000–2002). Surya has successfully led and co-led multiple large-scale multidisciplinary research projects. His expertise includes plant phenomics, molecular biology, genomics, physiology, and agronomy with research on improving multiple traits: nitrogen use efficiency, abiotic stress (salinity, drought, and heat), flowering time, staying green, and quality improvement in various crops: wheat, barley, canola, safflower, pulses, rice, and corn. Surya has published over 60 research articles in reputed international journals with more than 2700 citations. His research team has developed capabilities for digital-sensor-based high-throughput plant phenotyping for automated measurements of physiological and breeding traits in crops.