Dr. A.K. Mishra is Head and Principal Scientist, Agricultural Knowledge Management Unit and the Coordinator, Bioinformatics Centre at IARI, New Delhi under BTIS net funded by DBT. Dr. Mishra received his Ph. D degree from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has more than20 years of experience in research and teaching. He has successfully executed World Bank funded, mega ICT projects, Consortium of e-Resources in Agriculture (CeRA) as Co-PI and Rice Knowledge Management Portal (RKMP) as CCPI under National Agricultural Innovation Projects (NAIP). He is a senior member of different professional societies like CSI, IACSIT and ISAS. He has published over 50 research articles in peer reviewed journals and conference proceedings.