Basudeb is an Assistant Professor of Biology in the Trivedi School of Biosciences. He is also affiliated as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Ashoka University. He did his Ph.D. at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard Medical School and MIT. His research group works on Synthetic Biology and Chemogentics to address various genetic and infectious diseases. He primarily uses CRISPR-based genome engineering, protein engineering, and chemical biology methods to understand the biology underlying various diseases and their chemopreventive development.