Dey graduated from the royal campus of Burdwan Raj College with honour in 2010 and was awarded the university gold medal for topping his post-graduation class from the University of Burdwan in 2012. Having cleared UGC NET in December, 2012 he joined Burdwan Raj College as guest faculty in July, 2014. He has enjoyed State funded JRF from The University of Burdwan too. Following the completion of his M.Phil. on the interface of urban sexuality in select graphic novels of Sarnath Banerjee, Dey has been a part of Kazi Nazrul University, Asansol, as guest lecturer from March, 2015. Dey has been a part of Burdwan MUC Women's College Postgrad Film Studies as a visiting faculty. He has served as a guest lecturer in English at Burdwan St X'avier's College UG for one academic session in 2016.
He is writing his doctoral thesis on Indian graphic narratives. Dey has enjoyed national scholarship on drama puppetry from CCRT, Ministry of Culture, for five years when he was in high school. Primarily focussed in on comics studies, he shares a budding interest in Bengali children’s/young adult fiction, art history, non-fictional humour, media studies, video game studies and spatial theory. Dey joined Memari College as an Assistant Professor in September 2017.