Trevor is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences at Clemson University. His lab focuses on developing new tools and workflows to optimize how phenotypic and phenomic data are collected and utilized by plant breeders for crop improvement. Before arriving at Clemson University, he worked as a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Plant Pathology at Kansas State University. Rife co-leads the Phenomics component of the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Crop Improvement.