Chanan Singh is an Indian-American electrical engineer and University Distinguished Professor[1] in the department of electrical and computer engineering, Texas A&M University.[2] He was named Irma Runyon Chair Professor and Texas A&M System Regents Professor.
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, Beijing, China. He has also served as program director at the National Science Foundation 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[5] 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.[6]
2020 Elected Foreign Fellow of Chinese Society of Electrical Engineering.[7]
2018 Elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for "advancement of theory, practice, and education in electric power system reliability"[8][9]
