Surya Kanta De is a director at Conju-Probe, San Diego, California, USA. Surya K. De obtained his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Jadavpur University, Kolkata (Calcutta), India. He worked at the University of Washington, (Seattle), Purdue University, (West Lafayette, Indiana), the Scripps Research Institute, and Sanford-Burnham Medical Discovery Institute prior to joining a biotech company. He has published over 120 papers in reputed international journals, covering a broad array of specialized topics in science, and he holds fifteen United States and international patents. He has published four solo-authored books.

He has been a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (London, UK), the Royal Society of Medicine (London, UK), the American Institute of Chemists (USA), and the Indian Chemical Society. He was a recipient of P. R. Vijayalaxmi Award for Innovation in Cancer Research (2023, USA. He has been an elected councilor at the American Chemical Society since 2022.