Vivek Kumar Singh
Research Associate
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Education: BSc Banaras Hindu university; MSc IIT Bombay; PhD IIT Bombay
Research Websites: Center for Quantum and Topological Systems
Research Areas: Theoretical and Mathematical Physics; Knot theory; Quantum many-body physics; Anyons; Quantum information
Vivek Kumar Singh received his PhD (Advisor: Professor P. Ramadevi) from IIT Bombay. He earned his PhD degree certificate in Feb 2019, thesis title "Chern-Simons invariants and validation of Ooguri-Vafa conjecture." He subsequently joined Professor Piotr Sułkowski’s research group at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Warsaw (Poland), as a postdoctoral researcher. Before joining the Center for Quantum and Topological Systems (CQTS), Singh was a visiting postdoctoral researcher at UAE University, UAE. Singh has also been a visiting fellow at several leading institutes in mathematics and physics, including ICTP Trieste (Italy), the Kharkevich Institute for Information Transmission Problems (Moscow, Russia), the University of Heidelberg (Germany), and IISER Pune (India). His research spans topological string and field theories, knot theory, and quantum many-body physics, with particular interest in their connections to quantum information and low-dimensional topology.