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 (2023 and 2019), 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), 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, detonations, and explosions including deflagration to detonation transition (DDT) in channels and tubes, soot formation and oxidation, and flame synthesis of functional nanoparticles. So far, he has published his work in about 88 reputed International Journals and refereed Conference Proceedings. He is also the author of 5 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 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 the 37th International Symposium on Combustion, Dublin, Ireland, 2018.