Dr. Ajay V. Singh is an Associate Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. He received a Ph.D. 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 the Exemplary Performance in Teaching Award (2024, 2023, and 2019), two Best Paper Awards in the field of fluid, thermal, and energy systems at the 2nd International Conference on Fluid, Thermal and Energy Systems - ICFTES’24 (2024), two Best Paper Awards in the field of chemically reacting flows at the 2nd International Conference on Recent Advances in Fluids & Thermal Sciences - iCRAFT2020 (2021), Commendation letter from the Academic Senate of IIT Kanpur for publishing research in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) USA (2019), Early Career Research Award (2019), 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 honor exemplifies quality, achievement, and significance to advance the field of combustion science. His academic achievements also include a 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 the prestigious Jacob K. Goldhaber travel award (2015). 

His current research interests are in fire science, fire dynamics, flame spread, high-speed compressible reactive flows, gaseous detonations including deflagration to detonation transition (DDT) in channels and tubes, gaseous explosions, soot formation and oxidation in flames, and flame synthesis of functional nanoparticles. So far, he has published his work in about 141 reputed international journals and refereed conference proceedings. He is also the author of 12 book chapters.

He is currently a reviewer for several reputed journals, including Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, and Combustion and Flame. He has given several invited lectures at Stanford University (USA) (as a part of the High-Temperature Gas Dynamics Seminar series), the University of Maryland College Park (USA), Peking University (PRC), Tianjin University (PRC), and the Beijing Institute of Technology (PRC) 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 the 37th International Symposium on Combustion, Dublin, Ireland, 2018. He is currently serving as a co-chairperson of the Scientific Commission of the International Confederation for Energy, Combustion, and Hazards Committee.