Faculty at School of Natural Sciences

Somya Singh

Somya Singh

Assistant Professor

School of Natural Sciences


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Interacting Reinforced Stochastic Processes, Urn Models, Random Graphs, Social/Contagion Networks, Opinion Dynamics, Markov Processes

2018 -2023: Ph.D. in Mathematics, Queen’s University, Canada

2013-2018: B.S-M.S Dual Degree in Mathematics, IISER Mohali, India

September 2024-July 2025: Postdoctoral Researcher, IIT Bombay, India
October 2023-July 2024: Postdoctoral Researcher, UC Louvain, Belgium

Institute Post-Doctoral Fellowship, IIT Bombay 2024-2025.

Norman and Grace Miller Graduate Fellowship 2020-2021.

Queen’s Graduate Award 2018-2023.

Inspire Scholarship (SHE) 2013-2018.

  1. S.Singh, F. Alajaji, and B. Gharesifard, “Generating preferential attachment graphs via a Pólya urn with expanding colors", Network Science, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 139- 159, 2024.
  2. S.Singh, F. Alajaji, and B. Gharesifard, “A finite memory interacting Pólya conta- gion network and its approximating dynamical systems", SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, vol. 60, no. 2, pp. 347-369, 2022.
  3. S.Singh, F. Alajaji and B. Gharesifard, “Consensus using a network of finite mem- ory Pólya urns", in IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 6, pp. 2780-2785, 2022.

Symposium on Probability Theory, 39th Annual Conference of Ramanujan Mathe- matical Society, Bangalore, India, December 2024.

Departmental Colloquium, ICTEAM, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain- La-Neuve, Belgium, September 2023.

Consensus using a network of finite memory Pólya Urns, 61th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Cancun, Mexico, December, 2022.

Interacting networks of finite memory Pólya urns, IISER Mohali, India, November, 2022 (Invited talk).

Modeling network contagion via interacting finite memory Pólya urns, International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Aalto University, Finland, 2022.

A finite memory interacting Pólya contagion network and its approximating dynam- ical systems, 59th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), December, 2020 (Invited talk).

Conference Proceedings

  1. S.Singh and R. M. Jungers, “Using symbolic dynamics to compare path-complete Lyapunov functions”, 63nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Mi- lan, Italy, 2024.
  2. S.Singh, F. Alajaji and B. Gharesifard,“Modeling network contagion via interacting finite memory Pólya urns”, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), pp. 348-353, 2022.

SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization Automatica

IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) European Control Conference (ECC)