Dr Lalit Kumar Singh

Dr. Lalit Kumar Singh received his Ph.D. degree from Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University). He is currently a Scientist & Head of Artificial Intelligence Applications in NPCIL-BARC, Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India, and has distinction of working on Pressurized Heavy Water Reactors (PHWR) and Light Water Reactors (LWR). He holds additional responsibility as: (i) Adjunct Professor, IIT Gandhinagar, (ii) Visiting Professor, IIITM Gwalior & BHU, (iii) Professor of Practice, VJTI Mumbai. He has an illustrious career and succeeded in several critical jobs assigned to him in his illustrious career, though, each of them was challenging. His assignments over the years range from design, development, testing, IV&V, related research and site validation of the safety critical computer based systems of Indian Nuclear Power Plants. He has published several research papers in journals of high impact factor like IEEE Transactions, IEEE Computer, ACM, etc. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and member on the advisory Board of IEEE Industry Relations & Entrepreneurship Committee.

He has been invited for chief guest, keynote speeches, session chair and talks in many international conferences, short term courses, workshops & faculty development programs from many IITs, NITs & other institutes of national importance. He is recipient of many awards like prestigious IEEE K. Shankar award, publication award, group achievement award, etc. He is a reviewer of several SCI indexed journals of high impact factor. He is a life member of Indian Nuclear Society. He is founder member and industrial coordinator of the proposed Center of Dependability at IIT(BHU). He is in the panel of faculty assessment committee for Department of CSE, IIT Roorkee to assess their research profile and give recommendations. He is a member of editorial board of many reputed journals and guest lead editor of many special issues. He is supervising many PhD students of different IITs, NITs and is PhD thesis examiner of IITs, NITs and other reputed institutes.

He is an expert member of Industrial policy formation of IIT Ropar, BoS of many autonomous institutes and member on the advisory board of many institutes/universities. He is a reviewer and project collaborator of Research proposals of Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences (BRNS). He is also faculty of Nuclear Training Centre, Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India. He is interfacing with other countries, like Russia, USA, France, etc. for importing nuclear reactors that are based on new technologies. His research interests are in the area of reliability, safety and security of safety critical computer based systems. So far, he has completed 33 projects of Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India. He holds 520 rank in India in the list of World’s scientists released by AD Scientific Index.