Diptaranjan Das did his PhD at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he worked in an experimental atomic physics group headed by Prof. Deniz Yavuz,. Here he studied the physics of interaction of cold atoms with coherent radiation.

Before moving to Madison for his PhD he spent two years doing his Masters at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research in Kolkata, India, following his undergraduate studies at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.