Dr. Sukanta K. Pradhan is serving as HOD in the Department of Bioinformatics of Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology (OUAT). He obtained his B.Sc(Ag) and M.Sc(Bioinformatics) from OUAT and Ph.D (Biotechnology) from Ravenshaw University. He is also working as the Director, OUAT Data Centre. The teaching and research interest of Dr. Pradhan includes Genomics, Metagenomics, Transcriptomics, Bioinformatics, Biotechnology, and Microbiology. He has successfully implemented several research projects funded by DBT Govt. of India, RKVY Govt. of Odisha, DST Govt. of Odisha. Till date, Dr. Pradhan is credited with publication of 58 research papers in reputed national and international journals and 8 book chapters. He serves as member of several scientific societies of national repute. So far, he has guided 01 Ph.D. scholar and 53 M.Sc students for their thesis and dissertation works. He has visited USA and Bangkok to attend International Conferences on Computational Biology.