Dr. R.K.P. Singh is Senior Director, Kalyani Centre of Technology & Innovation (KCTI) – Bharat Forge Ltd; Pune. He is B.E. from BIT, Sindri (1970), M.tech from IIT, Bombay (1975) & PhD from IIT, Madras in Metallurgical Engineering (1994). He has green belt certification for SIX-SIGMA.
Before Joining Bharat Forge, Dr. R.K.P. Singh was Director General, Institute of Steel Department & Growth, Kolkata. Dr. Singh was Professor at Visveswaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur for 3 years and earlier to that he served as General Manager (QC, R&D), Lloyds Steel Industries Limited, Wardha for 6 years. Before joining Lloyds Steel, Dr. Singh worked in SAIL at Bokaro Steel Plant and at R&D centre for Iron & Steel in various capacities for a total period of 22 years. Dr. Singh has about 120 national/international publications to his credit. He has widely travelled to USSR, Sweden, Norway, UK, USA, China, Signapore, Malayasia, S-Korea, Spain, France, Germany, Australia and other countries. He has played key role in development and transfer of several technologies in India. His prime areas of expertise are application engineering, product development, failure analysis, steel making and processing and TQM. He was conferred Distinguished Service Award of IIT Bombay in December, 2018. He figures in Marquis Book of “who-is-who in Science & Engg”, and in 2000 Outstanding Scientist of 21st Century compiled by International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England.