Dr Sri Niwas Singh
FIEEE (USA), FNAE, FIET (UK), IE(I), IETE(I)
Prof S. N. Singh obtained his M. Tech. and Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, in 1989 and 1995. Presently, he is Professor (HAG), Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India. Before joining IIT Kanpur as Associate Professor, Dr Singh worked with UP State Electricity Board as Assistant Engineer from 1988 to 1996, with Roorkee University (now IIT Roorkee) as Assistant Professor from 1996 to 2000 and with Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand as Assistant Professor from 2001 to 2002. He was Vice-Chancellor of Madan Mohan Malviya University of Technology Gorakhpur during April 2017 to July 2020. Dr Singh received several awards including Young Engineer Award 2000 of Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), Khosla Research Award of IIT Roorkee, and Young Engineer Award of CBIP New Delhi (India), 1996. Prof Singh is receipt of Humboldt Fellowship of Germany (2005, 2007) and Otto-monsted Fellowship of Denmark (2009-10). Prof Singh became first Asian to receive 2013 IEEE Educational Activity Board Meritorious Achievement Award in Continuing Education. He is also recipients of INAE Outstanding Teacher Award 2016 and IEEE R10 region (Asia-Pacific) Outstanding Volunteer Award 2016. Dr Singh is appointed as IEEE Distinguish Lectures of Power & Energy Society from 2019 and Industry application Society for 2019-2021.
His research interests include power system restructuring, FACTS, power system optimization & control, security analysis, wind power, etc. Prof Singh has published more than 450 papers in International/national journals/conferences and supervised 30 PhD (12 PhD under progress). He has also written 18 book chapters and two books one on Electric Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution and second is Basic Electrical Engineering, published by PHI, India. Prof Singh has completed three dozen of projects in India and abroad.
Prof Singh was Chairman, IEEE UP Section for 2013 & 2014, and presently, he is IEEE R10 (Asia-Pacific) Conference & Technical Seminar Coordinator 2015-18. Presently Prof Singh is India Council Chairman and R10 Vice-Chair, Technical Activities (2019-2020) of IEEE, the largest professional body in Engineering. Dr Singh is Fellows of, IEEE (USA), FIET (UK), FNAE, FIE(I), FIETE.
Awards
1. Got 2nd Rank in Bachelor of Technology (Electrical), KNIT Sultanpur, India, 1987
2. Stood First in M. Tech. (Power Systems) and got Cumulative Performance Index (CPI) 10.0 out of 10.0, IIT Kanpur, India, 1989.
3. Received Appreciation letter from the Chairman, U.P. State Electricity Board (India), 1990 for two Research Reports
4. Certificate of Merit award for a technical paper entitled Reactive Power Planning for Secure Operation of Power System, in the Ist International R&D Conference of CBIP, New Delhi, 9-12 October 1995.
5. Received C.B.I.P. Young Engineer Award 1996.
6. Khosla Research Award (Commendation) of University of Roorkee, India 1998.
7. Received INAE Young Engineer Award 2000.
8. Khosla Research Award (Gold) of Roorkee University, India, 2000.
9. Appreciation letter from Dean, SERD, AIT Bangkok for excellent services to Energy Program, 2002.
10. Humboldt Research Fellowship (2005, 2007)
11. Listed in Who’s Who in Asia (2006) and Who’s Who in World (2007)
12. Listed in Who’s Who in Science & Engineering (2007)
13. 21st Century Award for Achievement by IBC Cambridge, England (2007)
14. Listed in Leading Engineers of the World 2007, IBC Cambridge, England (2007)
15. First Prize in a technical paper titled Short-Term Zonal Load Forecasting in PJM Electricity Market Based on Adaptive Wavelet Neural Network, in the IEEE Sponsored Student paper Contest and Technical Symposium (SPCTS-2007) at DA-IICT, Gandhinagar, 28-30 Sept 2007.
16. Best Paper ward of 14th International Conference on Intelligent System Application to Power Systems (ISAP07) held during Nov 4-8, 2007, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
17. Otto Mønsteds Fund Award, Denmark (2009)
18. Best paper Award for AWNN based Harmonic Estimation in Renewable Energy Sources, in Recent Advances in Electrical Power and Energy System Management (RAEPESM-2011).
19. Best paper Award for Characterization of Power Quality events with wavelet transform, in Recent Advances in Electrical Power and Energy System Management (RAEPESM-2011).
20. 2010 Clayton Griffin Student Paper Award for SVM based Scheme to Prevent Distance Relay Mal-operation under Power Swing and Voltage Instability"
21. Three PhD Theses got POSOCO Power System Award, 2012
22. 2013 IEEE Educational Activities Board Meritorious Achievement Award in Continuing Education
23. Dr PS Nigam Power Sector Award 2013 and 2014 by IE(I), UP State Center
24. The Institution of Engineers (I), Certificate of Appreciation, 2013.
25. Two PhD Theses and One M.Tech. thesis got POSOCO Power System Award, 2013
26. 2013 IEEE R10 Educational Activities Board Award, 2013
27. 2014 IEEE PES Chapter Outstanding Engineer Award.
28. Er Hari Mohan Memorial Award 2014 by IE(I), UP State Center
29. Emerald Literati Network 2015 Awards for Excellence by Emerald Publication UK.
30. IEEE India Council, M V Chauhan All India Student Paper Award 2015 (Second prize) for Binary Genetic Algorithm Based Reconfiguration of Distribution Systems having Distributed Generations.
31. Two PhD Theses got POSOCO Power System Award, 2015
32. Gobal Citizen Award 2016 by KNIT Sultanpur.
33. Ranked 4rth in top researchers in Energy area by DST New Delhi based on the number of publications during 2002- 2014.
34. INAE Outstanding Teacher Award 2016
35. IEEE Region 10 (Asia-Pacific) Outstanding Volunteer Award 2016
36. IEEE India Council, M V Chauhan All India Student Paper Award 2016 (First prize) for Risk Based Optimal Genco’s Self-Scheduling’.
37. IEEE UPCON Best Paper Award 2017 for Modular Multi-level Converter Topologies: Present Status and Key Challenges.
38. Outstanding Research Faculty Award for year 2017-18 for Top 10 knowledge producers in Energy Discipline by CAREER360, New Delhi.
39. Life Time Achievement Award 2018 by Global Intellect Award -2018 (JSR Laboratory & Asian Society for Scientific Research), Pune for Outstanding Contributions to the power engineering community in Teaching, Training, Research and Industrial Collaboration.
40. Prof GK Dubey Memorial Life Time Achievement Award 2018 by IEEE Uttar Pradesh Section for Outstanding contribution to IEEE UP Section and IEEE R10.
41. Amity Global Academic Excellence Award 2018, by Amity University, Greater Noida, India.
42. Sangam Shikhar Samman 2018, Gorakhpur
43. IEEE UPCON Best Paper Award 2018 for Development of EMT Model for Circulating Current Control.
44. Amity Excellence Award for Outstanding Leadership, Innovation and Contribution in Higher Education, Given by Minister of State (independent Charge) Sri Mahesh Sharma Jee at Amity University, Noida, India on December 19, 2018.
45. IEEE Industry Application Society Distinguish Lecturer 2019-2021
IEEE Power and Energy Society Distinguish Lecturer 2019 – to date