President Droupadi Murmu presents IIT Delhi Professor Bhim Singh with Vigyan Shri Source: IIT Delhi
In a major achievement for IIT Delhi, the President of India, Droupadi Murmu, presented Vigyan Shri Award to Prof Bhim Singh of IIT Delhi, for his immense contribution to Engineering Sciences at the Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar 2024 held at Rashtrapati Bhavan on August 22.
Prof Bhim Singh has been honoured with the Vigyan Shri Award for his immense contribution towards the development of power electronics for renewable energy sources, including e-mobility.
His research areas include solar PV grid interface systems, microgrids, power quality monitoring and mitigation, solar PV water pumping systems, improved power quality AC-DC converters, power electronics, electrical machines, drives and electric vehicles.
Prof Singh joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi, in 1990. He has been Head of Department of Electrical Engineering from July 2014 to August 2016. Prof Singh was Dean of Academics at IIT Delhi from August 2016 to August 2019.
He is also an esteemed alumnus of IIT Delhi. He received his BE (Electrical) degree from the University of Roorkee (now IIT Roorkee), India in 1977, and his MTech (Power Apparatus & Systems) and PhD from IIT Delhi in 1979 and 1983, respectively.