Doctor Ramasamy Perumal received his BSc in Agriculture (1981), MSc (1983) and PhD (1993) in Plant Breeding and Genetics from Tamil Nadu Agricultural University. He was a post-doctoral research associate at the Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Texas A&M University (1998–2000). He began working as a research assistant professor at the Kansas State University Agricultural Research Center in 2010. Later on, he was promoted to assistant professor (2012), associate professor (2017), and has been a professor since 2022. Doctor Perumal was awarded a Senior Research Fellowship by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, Government of India (1988–1990), a Rockefeller Foundation post-doctoral research fellowship for a Sorghum Biotechnology (1998–2000), and a Fulbright Specialty Award for 2025. His research topics mainly include Crop Breeding and Genomics.