Professor Shifeng Cheng currently serve as the Director of the Plant Genomics Center at the Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, China (AGIS), Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), Shenzhen, China. His research interest is in cereal and legume genome biology, and evolutionary genetics in high-performance natural traits like efficient biological nitrogen-fixing root nodule symbiosis in legumes (https://www.legumedata.org/beanbag/68/issue-68-legume-genome-sequencing-consortium) and C4 photosynthsis in cereals (https://www.c4phylomics.org/). With sixteen years of interdisciplinary research experience, his work uniquely bridges several areas critical for the delivery of the crop yield and protein sustainability in global food systems, spanning plant evolutionary genomics, crop quantitative genetics, and computational biology. Together with his team, he has published over 60 high-impact articles and listed among the World’s Top Scientists by Stanford University. Shifeng’s research has been published in the top-tier of journals, including Science (2018), Cell (2019) and Nature (2024, accepted) and his research has been highlighted by the Faculty of 1000. Specifically, he is currently now focusing on Watkins Wheat G2B (Genomics to Breeding, https://wwwg2b.com/), Mendel Pea G2P (Genomics to Phenomics) under the global initiative G3RP (https://g3rp.com/), in a genomics-enabled population genetics perspective.