Surendra Singh is University Professor of Physics at the University of Arkansas. He received B.Sc. (Honors) and M.Sc. degrees in Nuclear Physics from Banaras Hindu University, India, where he was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal, and a Ph.D. in Quantum Optics from the University of Rochester under the mentorship of Professor Leonard Mandel. His doctoral thesis received the Dexter Prize for Outstanding Physics Thesis.
His teaching and research span laser physics, quantum optics, nonlinear optics, electro-dynamics, and quantum mechanics. He has contributed experimentally and theoretically to the study of noise in lasers and nonlinear optical systems and to the phase and polarization properties of laser beams. He has also developed laboratory courses in lasers and optics and co-authored a graduate-level textbook on quantum mechanics.
He has served as Chair of the Department of Physics at the University of Arkansas, was a Visiting Fellow at JILA, and has held honorary visiting professorships at IIT Madras and the University of Ulm. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and an APS Outstanding Referee.