Dr Kaushik Chanda, obtained his MSc in Organic Chemistry from Gauhati University, Assam India in 2001. Subsequently he worked as a Senior Research Fellow in ICAR-NATP funded project in St. Anthonys College, Shillong, India from 2002–2005. In 2006, he moved to Taiwan to pursue a PhD in Applied Chemistry from National Chiao Tung University under the guidance of Prof Chung Ming Sun on a topic of Combinatorial Chemistry. After finishing his PhD in 2010, he moved to Department of Chemistry, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan for a NSC-postdoctoral fellowship in facet dependent organic catalysis with Prof. Michael H. Y. Huang. Now he is working as an Assistant Professor senior in the Department of Chemistry, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore. His research interest includes diversity oriented synthesis, anticancer drug design, drug delivery and nanocatalysis.