Dr. Sahoo holds the position of Assistant Professor in the Department of Botany since 2014. He has 10 years of research experience. He has more than 15 publications in peer reviewed International journals and 01 national patent to his credit. He did his doctoral research work on developing the salinity and drought tolerant transgenic rice through pyramiding genes, in 2010 at International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), New Delhi and in collaboration with School of Life science, JNU, New Delhi. He further worked his postdoctoral research for more than 2 years with Dr. Sneh Lata Singla-Pareek and Prof. S.K. Sopory at ICGEB, New Delhi on transgenic rice and on RNAi Technology. After that, he served as Senior Technical Officer in Biotechnology Division at CSIR-Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology (IHBT), Govt. of India, Palampur. Currently, he has healthy research collaboration with ICAR-National Rice research Institute (NRRI), Cuttack and Imgenex India, Pvt. limited, Bhubaneswar. His research interest is focused on crop improvements through plant genetic engineering, plant proteomics and metabolomic study. In addition, his current research aim is to establish economically important plants in tissue culture medium and soilless hydroponic condition.