utantary@pmu.edu.sa
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Ubaid Tantary did his Ph.D. in Physics from the Center for Nuclear Research at Kent State University, USA (2024) and joined Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, KSA, as Assistant Professor in 2025 after postdoctoral work at Brandon University and the Winnipeg Institute for Theoretical Physics, Canada. His research focuses on QCD and quantum field theories, particularly N=4 Supersymmetric Yang–Mills at finite temperature and density, using perturbative thermal field theory, effective field theories, and gauge/gravity duality. He has taught Classical Mechanics, Electromagnetism, Quantum Mechanics, and Special Relativity, including Seven Ideas That Shook the Universe, a popular undergraduate course he designed at Kent State.
Ph.D. in Physics | Center for Nuclear Research, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, USA (2017 – May 2024)
Advisor: Dr. Michael Strickland
Thesis: Thermodynamics of 𝒩 = 4 Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory Using Direct Resummation and Effective Field Theory Methods
M.Sc. in Physics | Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India (2014 – 2017)
B.Sc. (Hons.) in Physics | Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India (2010 – 2013)
• Ubaid Tantary, Phys. Rev. D (2026), doi:10.1103/ks69-drw2 (in press).
• Ubaid Tantary and Qianqian Du, “Constrained Padé Ensembles for Thermal 𝒩 = 4 SYM with the Exact O(λ^(5/2)) Coefficient,” arXiv:2604.16109 [hep-th] (Apr 17, 2026)
• Margaret E. Carrington, Gabor Kunstatter, and Ubaid Tantary, “𝒩 = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills thermodynamics to order λ^(5/2),” arXiv:2604.05919 [hep-th] (Apr 7, 2026).
• Ubaid Tantary, “Constrained Padé Ensembles for Thermal 𝒩 = 4 SYM: Quantified Uncertainties and Next-Order Predictions,” arXiv:2510.22583, Oct. 2025.
• Ubaid Tantary, Qianqian Du, and Michael Strickland, “𝒩 = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills thermodynamics to order λ^(5/2) from effective field theory,” (in preparation).
• Margaret Carrington, Gabor Kunstatter, and Ubaid Tantary, “Systematic Analysis of Twist Effects and Isotropization in a QCD-Inspired Scalar Field Theory,” (in preparation).
• Qianqian Du, Michael Strickland, and Ubaid Tantary, “Scheme dependence of two-loop hard thermal loop perturbation theory resummed SYM₄,₄ thermodynamics,” Phys. Rev. D 105, 074004 (2022).
• Jens O. Andersen, Qianqian Du, Michael Strickland, and Ubaid Tantary, “𝒩 = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills thermodynamics from effective field theory,” Phys. Rev. D 105, 015006 (2022).
• Qianqian Du, Michael Strickland, and Ubaid Tantary, “𝒩 = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills thermodynamics to order λ²,” J. High Energy Phys. 2021, 64 (2021).
• Qianqian Du, Michael Strickland, Ubaid Tantary, and B.-W. Zhang, “Two-loop HTL-resummed thermodynamics for 𝒩 = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory,” J. High Energy Phys. 2020, 38 (2020).
• Michael Strickland and Ubaid Tantary, “Exact solution for the non-equilibrium attractor in number-conserving relaxation time approximation,” J. High Energy Phys. 2019, 69 (2019).
• Ubaid Tantary, Qianqian Du, and Michael Strickland, “Some recent advances in the understanding of 𝒩 = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills thermodynamics,” PoS PANIC2021 (2022) 225.
• Ubaid Tantary, Jens O. Andersen, Qianqian Du, and Michael Strickland, “Effective field theory treatment of 𝒩 = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills thermodynamics,” Proceedings of Moriond 2022 QCD.
Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, KSA
Brandon University, Canada
Winnipeg Institute for Theoretical Physics, Canada
Kent State University, USA
Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná (PUCPR), Brazil
Aligarh Muslim University, India
INSPIRE-HEP:
Doctoral Training Schools
2023: GGI Lectures on Theory of Fundamental Interactions, GGI, Florence, Italy
2022: XQCD PhD School, University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway
2020: GGI Lectures on Theory of Fundamental Interactions, GGI, Florence, Italy
2019: ECT* Doctoral Training Program: Effective Field Theory Techniques (EFTT), ECT*, Trento, Italy
Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, KSA (2025 – present)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Brandon University and Winnipeg Institute for Theoretical Physics, Manitoba, Canada (September 2024 – September 2025)
Lecturer/Instructor, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, USA (August 2022 – December 2023)
Lecturer/Instructor, Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná (PUCPR), Curitiba, Brazil (May – July 2022)
Graduate Teaching/Research Assistant, Kent State University, Ohio, USA (August 2017 – May 2024)
Physics for Engineers II (Lecture & Lab) | Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, KSA (Spring 2026)
Introductory Physics I (Lecture & Lab) | Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, KSA (Fall 2025)
Physics for Engineers I (Lab) | Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, KSA (Fall 2025)
Seven Ideas That Shook the Universe | Kent State University, USA & Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná, Brazil
Lecturer/Instructor (2022–2024): Designed, structured, and taught this popular undergraduate course for non-science majors. The course explores the historical and conceptual development of physics, from ancient Greek thought through Newton, Maxwell, Einstein, Schrödinger, to modern string theory.
College Physics II (Lab & Lecture) | Kent State University, USA
Lecturer/Instructor (2023): Designed and taught the lecture course covering electricity and magnetism, special relativity, and an introduction to quantum mechanics.
Teaching Assistant (2017–2020): Assisted students in labs on electricity, magnetism, and optics.
College Physics I (Lab) | Kent State University, USA
Teaching Assistant (2017–2020): Supported undergraduate students in labs covering Newtonian mechanics, thermodynamics, and waves. Responsibilities included setting up and testing lab equipment, assisting students with experiments, ensuring safety, grading lab reports, and providing feedback.
Quantum field theory at finite temperature and density • Diagrammatic and effective-field-theory resummation methods • Supersymmetric gauge theories and the AdS/CFT correspondence • Exploring the connections between black holes and quantum field theories • Relativistic viscous hydrodynamics
