Surendra Singh received B.Sc. (Honors) and M.Sc. degrees in Nuclear Physics from Bananas Hindu University, India, where he was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal (1973) and Ph.D. in Quantum Optics from the University of Rochester, USA, working under the mentorship of Professor Leonard Mandel. His Ph.D. Thesis was awarded the Dexter Prize for Outstanding Physics Thesis. After finishing his Ph.D., he joined the University of Arkansas in 1982 as an assistant professor of physics where he is currently University Professor of Physics. He was a Visiting Fellow of JILA in Professor John Hall's lab and has held honorary visiting professorships at IITMadras, India and University of Ulm, Germany. The author has taught a wide spectrum of courses ranging from large enrollment introductory physics courses to advanced graduate level courses in electrodynamics, quantum mechanics, laser physics, classical, quantum and nonlinear optics and developed lab-based courses in lasers and optics. He has also co-authored a graduate-level textbook on quantum mechanics. His research has made experimental and theoretical contributions to advancing the knowledge of quantum and classical noise in lasers and nonlinear optical systems and phase and polarization properties of laser beams. The author served as Chair of the Physics Department at the University of Arkansas for thirteen years. The department made multifaceted progress during his tenure as department chair. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and was designated an Outstanding Referee by the APS journals.