Rajkumar Prasad Singh

KCTI, Bharat Forge Ltd.
Sr. Director

Dr. Rajkumar Prasad Singh is the Senior Director of Kalyani Centre for Technology and Innovation at Bharat Forge Limited, Pune. After obtaining his M. Tech. from IIT Bombay in Metallurgical Engineering, he completed Ph.D. from IIT Madras in Metallurgical Engineering.

He has 46 years of professional experience of working with various organizations like Steel Authority of India, Lloyds Steel Industries Limited, as Professor at Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT), Nagpur and Director General of Institute for Steel Development and Growth. His present assignment as Bharat Forge involves pioneering a new Center for Technology and Innovation, solving company’s problem related to process and products, developing new products and guiding PhD’s and M. Tech’s in several new technology areas.

Dr. Singh is Life Fellow of Indian Institute of Metals and Indian Institute of Non-Destructive Testing, He has been featured in Marquis Book of Who is Who in Science and Engineering and in the list of 2000 outstanding scientist of 21st century compiled by the International Biographical Center, Cambridge, UK.

He has completed consulting project awarded by RDCIS, SAIL, worked with Prof. N.B. Ballal, Department of Metallurgical Engineering; coordinated and completed 68 M. Tech. projects candidates sponsored by Bharat Forge under M.Tech. (MMM);co-authored 30 technical papers with various professors of IIT Bombay; formulated MOU for sponsored PhD programs of Bharat Forge. He is presently co-guide for two PhD programs in IIT Bombay. He was instrumental in setting up Bharat Forge Tech Park at IIT Bombay and regularly gave business to IIT Bombay through sample testing and consultancy projects. He has supported IIT Bombay in several imprints and Ucchatar Avishkar Yojana projects.