Chanan Singh is an Indian-American electrical engineer and University Distinguished Professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering,

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. He was named Irma Runyon Chair Professor and Texas A&M System Regents Professor.

Education

Singh got his M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the

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, Canada and B.Sc. (Gold Medalist) from the

Punjab Engineering College Punjab Engineering College (Deemed to be University) (abbreviated PEC or PEC Chandigarh) is a public research & technical institution in Chandigarh. It was founded in 1921 in Lahore, established in Chandigarh in 1953, and focuses on the field o ...

, Chandigarh, India.

Career

From 1997 to 2005 he served as the department head of electrical and computer engineering at Texas A&M and later, from 2012 to 2015, he served as interim head. He has held a position as a guest professor at

Tsinghua University Tsinghua University (THU) is a public university in Haidian, Beijing, China. It is affiliated with and funded by the Ministry of Education of China. The university is part of Project 211, Project 985, and the Double First-Class Constructio ...

, Beijing, China. He has also served as program director at the

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of US. He is also a principal and Vice-President of Associated Power Analysts Inc. a firm that specializes in developing software and conducting reliability studies of the electric power grid. Before joining Texas A&M University he worked in the R&D Division of Ontario Ministry of Transportation and Communications on the development of innovative public transit systems. Earlier, he had worked in the Punjab State Electricity Board and Indian Railways. Singh is known for his contributions to electric power system reliability evaluation, particularly in developing the theoretical foundations for frequency and duration methods, non-Markovian models, modeling of interconnected power systems, integration of renewable resources and machine learning methods for reliability analysis of large electric power systems. He is author/co-author of five books, several book chapters, and over 400 technical articles.

Major awards and recognition

* 2022 IEEE Power Engineering Society Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to the education, research and industrial adoption of reliability theory and practice in large power systems. * 2020 Elected to Foreign Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering. * 2020 Elected Foreign Fellow of Chinese Society of Electrical Engineering. * 2018 Elected a member of the

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for "advancement of theory, practice, and education in electric power system reliability" * 2010 Inaugural recipient of the Roy Billinton Power System Reliability Award from the Power & Energy Society (PES) of the

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(IEEE). * 2008 Merit Award by th
PMAPS International Society
for lifelong achievements. * 1998 Recipient of the 1998 Outstanding Power Engineering Educator Award given by the IEEE-PES. * 1997 Awarded a D.Sc. degree by the

, Saskatoon, SK, Canada. * 1991 Elected a Fellow of the IEEE for "contributions to theory and applications of quantitative reliability methods in electric power systems".

Major publications

* Textbook
Power System Flexibility
( Zongxiang Lu, Haibo Li, Ying Qiao, Le Xie and Chanan Singh, Elsevier, 2023) * Textbook
Electric Power Grid Reliability Evaluation: Models and Methods
(Chanan Singh, Panida Jirutitijaroen and Joydeep Mitra; Wiley-IEEE Press, 2019; ) * Textbook
Wind Power Systems: Applications of Computational Intelligence
(L. Wang, C.Singh, A. Kusiak, (Eds), Springer, Heidelberg, 2010.) * Textbook
Engineering Reliability: New Techniques and Applications
(Balbir S. Dhillon and Chanan Singh; Wiley, 1981; ) * Textbook
System Reliability Modelling and Evaluation
(Chanan Singh and Roy Billinton; Hutchinson, 1977; )

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