Dr. Jai Govind Singh received his Ph.D. (2008), M. Tech. (2003) and B.E. (2001) degrees from IIT Kanpur, IIT Roorkee, and MNNIT Allahabad, respectively, all in Electrical Power Engineering. Dr. Singh joined the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) in December 2009 and currently working as an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Energy and Climate Change, SERD, AIT Thailand. Before joining AIT Bangkok, he worked as a Postdoctoral research associate (2008-2009) at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden, followed by the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in 2009.
His teaching and research interests include power system planning, operation, and control; Smart Grid and Microgrid; Electric vehicles and battery storage; deregulation; solar and wind integration; power distribution system planning.
Dr. Singh has supervised 7 doctoral (another 9 are ongoing) and 74 master graduates besides being involved as a committee member of more than 180 other master/doctoral thesis work completed in the last 15 years. He has published more than 131 articles in different international journals (52), book chapters (5) in international conference proceedings (68), including IEEE, Elsevier, IET, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, and Taylor & Francis, etc. He has been involved in research/development projects (20) sponsored by international donors/agencies. Further, he has successfully organized an international conference, ICUE2018, apart from technical members of several other conferences. He has regularly been invited and participated in international conferences and training programs as keynote (20) and expert (30+) speakers. He is also a senior member of the IEEE Power and Energy Systems and, Fellow of The Institution of Engineers (India). For more details, his profile can be accessed at https://ait.ac.th/people/dr-jai-govind-singh/.
Dr Pallavi Srivastava is a Senior Application Development Engineer in the Analog, Power & Discrete, MEMS & Sensors Group at STMicroelectronics, Catania, Italy. Her primary focus is on the development and characterization of new technologies and products based on wide band-gap devices within the Power Transistor Division.
Born and raised in Gorakhpur, Pallavi completed her schooling there and earned her Bachelor’s degree in 2009 from Gorakhpur, before moving to other cities for higher education. She completed her Master’s degree at VJTI, Mumbai, supported by the GATE scholarship in 2010. Later, she pursued her PhD at Taylor’s University, Malaysia, with an international scholarship in 2018, and received a European scholarship from the University of Catania in 2022 in collaboration with STMicroelectronics.
Dr Pallavi began her career as a Java developer at IBM India in 2012. She then served as an assistant professor for five years before undertaking her PhD. She has published several papers in international journals and conferences and authored the book Completion Detection in Asynchronous Circuits, published by Springer.