Yahya Rauf received his Ph.D. Degree in Plant Breeding and Plant Molecular Genetics from the University of Minnesota in 2019. He has been working as a Postdoctoral Associate in Wheat Genetics and Genomics earlier at the Oklahoma State University and currently at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research. In the past, he had working affiliations with CIMMYT and national breeding programs in Pakistan to support multidisciplinary collaborations for wheat improvement. His research mainly include crop genetics, genomics, conventional and non-conventional breeding, whole-genome sequencing, and accelerated breeding for improved genetic gains.