Dr. Rahul Mahadev Shelake is a Research Professor at the Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Research Center (PMBBRC), Gyeongsang National University (GNU) in Jinju, South Korea. Dr. Shelake completed his master's in Biotechnology with a DBT fellowship at Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (Coimbatore, India) and his Ph.D. in molecular biology at Ehime University (Matsuyama, Japan), supported by a MEXT Fellowship awarded by the Government of Japan. Before joining the Ph.D. program, he worked as a researcher at the National Research Center for Grapes (Pune, India) and Mahyco Life Science Research Centre (Jalna, India). Dr. Shelake has over 16 years of research experience in plant molecular biology and biotechnology. His current research interests include developing novel genome editing tools in bacteria, yeast, and plants. He is actively involved in designing new platforms for evaluating base editing and dual base editing technologies, as well as targeted random mutagenesis techniques to mimic gene and protein evolution in an accelerated manner, contributing to crop improvement efforts. Dr. Shelake has published over 70 works, including research papers, reviews, conference proceedings, patents, and book chapters. Additionally, he has edited special issues and actively participates in peer-review activities, having reviewed more than 100 papers across 40 journals.