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 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 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 honor exemplifies quality, achievement, and significance to advance a 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 76 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, 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.