Lightson Ngashangva is working as research scientist under an esteemed Prof. Pranab Goswami and the project title 'Studies and Applications of redox enzymes in bioelectronics devices' in the department of biosciences and bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India after completing PhD degree in Materials Science, specializing in the development of biosensors by on-chip peptide synthesis, under the supervision of Prof. Yuzuru Takamura of Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan. He graduated from the same Japanese institute after completing Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from St. Stephen's college, Delhi University, India.