Dr. Reddy is a William L. Giles Distinguished Professor at Mississippi State University in the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences. His research interests include the impact of anthropogenic climate change, remote sensing, and crop modeling applications on agricultural resource management through the lens of environmental plant physiology. He has over 36 years of research experience at MSU and manages the state-of-the-art sunlit plant growth chambers known as Soil-Plant-Atmosphere-Research. He is responsible for and credited with many critical discoveries across multiple facets of agriculture. His research includes the impact of climate change on crop physiology, growth, and development of several outstanding foods, fiber, and native grassland and forage crops of global importance. These include cotton, soybean, rice, corn, sorghum, sweet potato, switchgrass, Bahiagrass, and many horticultural crops. His domain expertise includes remote sensing, stress physiology, and crop model applications.

Dr. Reddy's role in the Delta Project is to comprehend the potential impact of climate change on crops grown in the Mississippi Delta.