Vikram has been with the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) since 2017, working as a Scientist in Agricultural Economics. His research focuses on rice value chain development and economic sustainability, with particular emphasis on carbon credit frameworks, entrepreneurship development, and the adoption and impact evaluation of innovative technologies.

With extensive field experience across South Asia, Vikram has led large-scale surveys, focus groups, experiments, workshops, and training programs with farmers and other value chain actors. He co-leads multiple research projects and contributes to major CGIAR initiatives, including Market Intelligence (MI) and Excellence in Agronomy (EiA). He is also involved in key bilateral projects such as the Cereal Systems Initiative for South Asia (CSISA), the Assam Agribusiness and Rural Transformation Project (APART), the Carbon Offsetting Rice Emissions (CORE) project, and DSR-Odisha. He works closely with other disciplines, mainly agronomy, geospatial intelligence, soil science, mechanization, post-harvest, and value addition.

Prior to joining IRRI, Vikram worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), and the Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC) in Bangalore, India. He served as a IMRD Erasmus Mundus Visiting Fellow in 2014. Before his doctoral program, he worked as a DAAD scholar at Humboldt University, Berlin.