D. K. Tripathi, has been working as Director, Pharmacy of Santosh Rungta Group of Institutions, Bhilai. He had been the Dean of Faculty and the Chairman of BOS, Pharmacy, CSVTU (Chhattisgarh Swami Vivekananda Technical University). He has been in profession of Pharmacy since 1974 for about forty-five years. He possessed both industrial and academic experiences. He has successfully worked in various academic Institutions in West Bengal, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. During his work he has understood the need of the students for which he has authored ten books. More than hundred fifty research and review articles have been published in various National and International journals of repute. He has supervised about six scholars at PhD level and about fifty scholars at PG level.