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June 2025: Sobhit was awarded the Furth Research Fund by the University of Rochester.
May 2025: Sobhit was honored with the G. Graydon Curtis ’58 and Jane W. Curtis Award for Non-Tenured Faculty Teaching at the University of Rochester.
Citation: "Sobhit Singh inspires his mechanical engineering students with unwavering commitment and a passion for fostering an engaging learning environment. In each of his courses, Professor Singh integrates his expertise in quantum materials research and bridges the gap between foundational concepts and modern applications.
Known for his exemplary dedication to teaching and mentorship, Professor Singh consistently empowers his students to realize their potential and strive for greatness, offering guidance that extends well beyond their academic pursuits.
Through clarity in his teaching methods, Professor Singh's ability to work compassionately through challenges that students find with course material, and his concrete support for their futures have significantly enriched the lives of his students. His extraordinary ability to simplify complex material, connect it to real-world applications, and provide a supportive and inclusive learning environment make him a professor students seek out."
April 2025: Sobhit was honored with the 2025 Professor of the Year Award in the Engineering Division by the Undergraduate Students' Association at the University of Rochester.
July 2024: Our paper, titled “Transport and magnetic properties of Hund’s metal CaRuO3 under strain modulation," was selected as Letters in Physical Review B and featured as the Editor’s Suggestion.
June 2024: Our research on 2D Rashba materials was featured as the Editor’s Pick in the Journal of Applied Physics (2024).
January 2024: Our research on hafnia (HfO2) was highlighted by several science news media outlets listed below.
> "Manipulated hafnia paves the way for next-gen memory devices," by Luke Auburn (2024).
> https://phys.org/news/2024-01-hafnia-paves-generation-memory-devices.html
> https://scienmag.com/manipulated-hafnia-paves-the-way-for-next-gen-memory-devices/
> https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/01/240122182825.htm
> https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1031909
> https://interestingengineering.com/science/hafnia-molecule-next-gen-memory-devices
> https://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnology-news3/newsid=64475.php#google_vignette
> https://chem.utk.edu/musfeldt-leverages-pressure-for-future-energy-storage/
November 2023: Our research on "Strain engineering of vertical molybdenum ditelluride phase-change memristors" was highlighted by several science news media outlets listed below.
"Straining memory leads to new computing possibilities," by Luke Auburn (2023).
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/11/231130121941.htm
https://scienmag.com/straining-memory-leads-to-new-computing-possibilities/
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-11-hybrid-phase-change-memristors-possibilities.html
https://bioengineer.org/straining-memory-leads-to-new-computing-possibilities/
https://www.innovationnewsnetwork.com/high-density-computing-memory-developed-by-scientists/40704/
July 2022: Sobhit joins the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Rochester as an Assistant Professor.
June 2022: Our research on hafnia was highlighted by The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences under the news title: "Innovative Ferroelectric Material Could Enable Next-Generation Memory Devices".
June 2022: Our research was featured by AZo Materials: "Hafnia-Based Ferroelectric Materials Exhibit Benefits for Computer Memory".
June 2022: Our research was featured by EurekAlert! under the title "Innovative Ferroelectric Material Could Enable Next-Generation Memory Devices", and various other science news media, such as Newswise, StorageNewsletter, and Sciencenewsnet.
January 2021: In this Nature Materials paper, we demonstrated ferroelectricity in the bulk orthorhombic phase of hafnium oxide stabilized by yttrium doping. This research was highlighted on the journal's NEWS & VIEWS.
July 2020: Our paper entitled "Engineering Weyl phases and nonlinear Hall effects in Td -MoTe2," by Sobhit Singh, Jinwoong Kim, Karin M. Rabe, and David Vanderbilt, was highlighted on the cover page of Physical Review Letters.
May 2019: Sobhit won the best POSTER presentation award at the "2019 Workshop on Recent Developments in Electronic Structure" held at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, May 19-22.
November 2018: Our paper entitled "Topological phonons and thermoelectricity in triple-point metals," by Sobhit Singh, QuanSheng Wu, Changming Yue, Aldo H. Romero, and Alexey Soluyanov, was highlighted as Editors’ Suggestion in Physical Review Materials.
September 2018: Sobhit was interviewed by Shelly Quance on Sep 20, 2018, and appeared on a blog for future graduate students of West Virginia University: Impact Technology with a PhD in Physics - Tips from a Researcher.
Picture credit: West Virginia University (2018)
March 2018: Sobhit was awarded the West Virginia University Foundation Distinguished Doctoral Scholarship.
December 2017: Highlighted research on Weyl fermions: WVU physicists tune the dynamics of exotic quantum particles.
Picture credit: West Virginia University (2017)
December 2017: The DOE Science News Source.
December 2017: West Virginia Press.
December 2017: Research highlighted on phys.org.
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