Pradip Chandra Deka is currently the Vice Chancellor at Sir Padampat Singhania University, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India. He obtained his Bachelor’s degree from Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat, Assam, India and thereafter Master’s and Doctorate degree in Genetics and Plant Breeding from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. Prof. Deka was the recipient of ICAR Senior Fellowship for pursuing doctorate degree. Prof. Deka was awarded WINROCK International Fellowship for pursuing post-doctorate research in Molecular Genetics at the University of Florida, Gainesville, USA and the University of California, Berkeley, USA. Prof. Deka was the Professor & Head, Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat, India and also the Dean, Faculty of Agriculture at the same University. He served as Visiting Professor at the Institute of Plant Genomics, ETH, Switzerland and at Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea. Earlier Prof. Deka was the Vice Chancellor, Tezpur University, Tezpur, Assam, India. Prof. Deka’s research interest is on Plant Molecular Genetics and Plant Tissue Culture. He has published more than 200 research papers in reputed national and international journals and authored five books on Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology.