Associated with Teaching/Supervision for more than 2 decades, Prof. Samanta has authored 10 books/chapters published by International/national publishers and 200 research articles in peer reviewed journals associated with prevalence of zoonotic / food-borne bacteria, antimicrobial resistance in livestock and their transmission dynamics. The textbooks such as ‘Veterinary Bacteriology: Revised 2nd Edition’ (NIPA, India), ‘Veterinary Mycology’ (Springer) are recommended by ICAR. He is the recipient of Fellow, Association of Public Health; Associate Fellow, National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS), American Society of Microbiology travel grant, Indian National Science Academy (INSA)-Summer Research Fellowship, Best Teacher Award (twice) of WBUAFS, P. Madhusudan Gold Medal etc. He received grants for conducting research from international agencies like Medical Research Council (UK) under Global Challenge Research Fund, Trinity Challenge for antimicrobial resistance (Massachusetts Institute of Technology-SOLVE), and national agencies such as Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), DBT and DST (Government of India) and DSTBT (Government of West Bengal). He is incorporated into world top 2% scientist list (Stanford University-Scopus) in agriculture and veterinary sector for the year 2024, 2025, 2026 and World top 5% scientist list (Sci Rank Global) for the year 2026.