Ajay Vikram 

Singh PhD

Bio

Dr Ajay V. Singh is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur since November 2017. He received a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park (2015), and did postdoctoral research at Stanford University, Stanford (2015-2017).

His professional achievements include two Best Paper Awards in the field of chemically reacting flows in the 2nd International Conference on Recent Advances in Fluids & Thermal Sciences - iCRAFT2020 (2021), Early Career Research Award (2019), Exemplary Performance in Teaching Award (2018), Outstanding Reviewer Award from the Combustion Institute (2018), New Faculty Fellowship (2017-2020), Distinguished Paper Award in the 35th International Symposium for Combustion (2014) and a nomination for the Silver Combustion Medal (2015) which recognizes an outstanding distinguished paper. A distinguished paper selected for this honour exemplifies quality, achievement, and significance to advance a field of combustion science. His academic achievements also include Future Faculty Fellowship from the University of Maryland College Park (2014-2015), Northrop Grumman Graduate Fellowship in Engineering Education (2014-2015), Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award (2014-2015) and prestigious Jacob K. Goldhaber travel award (2015).

His current research interests are in high-speed compressible reactive flows, detonations and explosions including deflagration to detonation transition (DDT) in channels and tubes, soot formation and oxidation, flame synthesis of functional nanoparticles, and fire dynamics. So far, he has published his work in about 64 reputed International Journals and refereed Conference Proceedings. He is also an author of 5 Book Chapters.

He is currently a reviewer for several reputed journals including the Progress in Energy and Combustion Science (PECS' impact factor tops 25; it ranks first among Elsevier's energy journals), Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, and Combustion and Flame. He has given several invited lectures at Stanford University as a part of the High-Temperature Gas Dynamics Seminar series and has also served as a member of prestigious international award committees. He has also served as a session chair in the 38th International Symposium on Combustion, Adelaide, Australia, 2021, and 37th International Symposium on Combustion, Dublin, Ireland, 2018.

 Education and Professional Experience

2017-present

Assistant Professor

Department of Aerospace Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India

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2015-2017

Postdoctoral Researcher

High-Temperature Gas Dynamics Laboratory (HTGL)

Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
 

2010 - 2015

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Mechanical Engineering   

University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA

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2008-2010

Research Engineer

Renault Nissan

2006 - 2008

Master of Technology (M.Tech.) in Aerospace Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India

2002 - 2006

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Mechanical Engineering

U.P. Technical University, Lucknow, India

Employment

Dr Ajay V. Singh is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur since November 2017. He received a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park (2015), and did postdoctoral research at Stanford University, Stanford (2015-2017). At Stanford, Dr Singh worked on various research projects related to jet fuel combustion chemistry, soot formation and oxidation in flames, flame synthesis of functional nanoparticles and detonations. Before venturing for PhD, Dr Singh worked as a research engineer at Renault Nissan where he was a part of the Powertrain CFD analysis group. He was responsible for projects related to numerical combustion, aerodynamics, and coolant flow computations. 

My Academic Family Tree

My academic family tree can be traced back to Dr Forman A. Williams and Dr Ludwig Prandtl.