He is a professor at and the director of the Institute of Advanced Study in Science and Technology.
[citation needed] Bailung was awarded the Boyscast fellowship by Department of Science and Technology, Government of India to do his post-doctoral at Institute of Space and Astronautical Science in 1998–1999.
He was a Visiting Scientist at Institute of Space and Astronautical Science in 2003 and at Yokohama National University in 2008.
[citation needed] Bailung is a specialist in dusty plasma and peregrine soliton.
[2][3] He was associated with Y. Nakamura and Padma Kant Shukla in his work on dusty plasma.