Prof. Arunima Singh is an associate professor of physics and a graduate faculty member in the Materials Science and Engineering program at Arizona State University. She received her PhD from Cornell University and held postdoctoral appointments at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Prof. Singh has received notable accolades, including the Department of Energy Early Career Research Program Award, The Mineral, Metal, and Materials Society (TMS) Young Leaders Professional Development Award, and the Department of Defense Faculty Fellowship. Her research integrates first-principles computational methods and artificial intelligence to accelerate materials discovery, synthesis, and applications, with an emphasis on understanding and controlling physical phenomena at the surfaces and interfaces of materials.
Prof. Singh’s Fulbright-Nehru research project is focusing on accelerating the discovery of quantum–semiconductor material heterostructures for the next-generation spintronic, neuromorphic, sensing, and topological devices. By combining machine learning, high-throughput first-principles simulations, and molecular beam epitaxy, the project is designing and fabricating atomically precise interfaces with controllable electronic properties. This integrated approach is expected to reveal the fundamental rules governing the complex interfaces in quantum–semiconductor heterostructures, establish advanced growth protocols through advanced synthesis methods, and lead to stable materials platforms for energy-efficient and scalable quantum technologies.