Dr Hukum Singh is currently working as Professor (Physics) and Head of the Department of Applied Sciences at The NorthCap University Gurugram, actively involved in research. He has been teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students for more than 20 years. His PhD degree is in Physics with a minor in Computer Science from Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology in Pantnagar, Uttaranchal. The topic of his PhD thesis was: Studies of Certain Selected Materials with Photoacoustic Spectroscopy. Prior to his appointment at NCU, Dr. Singh was a Lecturer at Bareilly College, Bareilly, and PDM University, Bahadurgarh, Haryana. He was a JRF on a DST-funded project for three years. He has published 84 research publications in reputed journals, 03 book chapter and  76 papers have been presented in National, International conferences and workshops as well. In addition, he has published one book (A Text Book of Engineering Physics, Icon Publications). In addition, he teaches Engineering Physics I and II and Fundamentals of Physics.

Dr Singh is awarded best researcher award (Ist rank) in the academic year 2021-22 by The NorthCap University, Gurugram, India. Dr. Hukum Singh has presented a research paper in the 24th congress of the International Commission of Optics (ICO-24, Japan Tokyo). The international conference was held from 21-25 August 2017 at the Keio Plaza Hotel, Tokyo, Japan.