Sobhit Singh
Assistant Professor at University of Rochester
City of Rochester, New York, United States
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Top SchoolSobhit Singh is an Assistant Professor and physicist with eight years of research experience translating first-principles theory into materials design for spintronics, optoelectronics, data storage, and energy applications. He combines deep expertise in DFT, molecular dynamics, and structural search methods with hands-on experimental synthesis and characterization (VSM, XRD, TEM, FE-SEM, ESR, UV-VIS, FTIR), enabling seamless theory–experiment workflows. His work probes electronic and phonon bandstructures, topological phases, and photocatalytic water-splitting mechanisms, often targeting 2D and heterostructure systems. Trained as a WVU Foundation Distinguished Doctoral Scholar and mentored at Rutgers with leaders in condensed-matter theory, he also codes in Python, Bash, C, Matlab, and Mathematica to automate and reproduce complex simulations. An uncommonly broad skill set across computation and lab techniques lets him both predict novel material behavior and validate it experimentally.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics at West Virginia UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Physics, A+, Master of Science - MS, Physics, A+ at Indian Institute of Technology, GuwahatiBachelor of Science - BS, Physics, Gold Medal in all years of BS degree, Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics, Gold Medal in all years of BS degree at Lucknow Christian Degree College, Lucknow University
Hindi, English, Spanish, chinese (hsk level-2)
Github Skills (1)
python8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
romerogroup/MechElastic
Nov 2017 - Sep 2021
A Python library to calculate elastic properties of materials.
Contributions:26 commits, 2 PRs, 25 pushes in 3 years 10 months
python
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