Dr. Mathews Paret is a Professor of Plant Pathology and Chair of the Department of Plant Pathology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA. He graduated with a B.S. in Agriculture from Allahabad Agricultural Institute, India, in 1999 and obtained an M.Sc. in Horticulture from the same university in 2001. In 2009, he received a Ph.D. in Tropical Plant Pathology from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Dr. Paret’s research interests include the characterization of plant pathogenic bacteria, fungi and viruses, the development of field-based molecular and sensing-based diagnostic techniques, plant disease image classification using machine learning and artificial intelligence, and the management of diseases using novel methods including natural and engineered nanomaterials.