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Arvind is an Indian physicist specializing in Quantum optics and quantum information. He is a Professor of Physics at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali.

= Biography = He was born in Adampur, Jalandhar, Punjab. He completed his schooling from Khalsa School Amritsar. He joined Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar and completed BSc Honours in Physics with first class distinction in 1988. He joined Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur where he pursued master’s programme in Physics and graduate with first class distinction in 1990. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Department of Physics and the Centre for Theoretical Studies at the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore in 1997.

Career
He joined the Physics department of Guru Nanak Dev University Amritsar as a faculty member. During 2002-2004, He was at the Physics Department of Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh as a special faculty. He joined as a faculty member in the physics department of the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras in 2005 and then moved to IISER Mohali in August 2007.