Nikee Shrestha is a graduate student in the Complex Biosystems program at UNL specializing in Integrated Plant Biology. She did her undergraduate from Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science, Lamjung Campus of Tribhuvan University, Nepal with major in Plant Breeding. She went to Oklahoma State University for her master’s degree in plant biology with research focus on quantitative genetics of shattering in pearl millet. She is passionate about food security and climate change in agriculture, gene by environment interaction using quantitative genetics, and various computational tools.