Combustion and Propulsion Laboratory
Department of Aerospace Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
Email: ajayvs@iitk.ac.in
“The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel”
-Claude Bernard
Ajay Vikram
Singh PhD
Bio
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 117 reputed International Journals and refereed Conference Proceedings. He is also the author of 6 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.
Education and Professional Experience
2022-present
Associate Professor
Department of Aerospace Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
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2017-2022
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 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). 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 Ph.D., 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.