Dr. Gautam Samanta is Vice President and Head of Quality by Design and Technology Transfer at Cipla Ltd. His focused areas are development of robust product using QbD and PAT and seamless transition of process from R&D to manufacturing using modeling and simulation. Previously, he worked at Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories in API development. He was awarded Ph.D. degree from Jadavpur University, Calcutta. Following his Ph.D. degree, he pursued research as a postdoctoral research fellow at the National Institute of Health Sciences, Japan and then the Texas Tech University, USA. After his postdoctoral research, he joined as a research Assistant Professor at the University of Houston, Texas, USA. He has published more than 50 papers in peer-reviewed international journals including the very prestigious Nature. His work has been cited by more than 5000 researchers. He has also authored 5 book chapters. He is an inventor of three process patents.  He is a reviewer of many scientific journals such as Analytical Chemistry, Environmental Science and Technology etc.