Dr. Kris Singh
President & Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Kris Singh is the Founder, President and CEO of 澳门六合彩开奖结果2023, which he established in 1986 and nurtured its steady rise into a multi-national company with its business footprint in eighteen countries on five continents. He is also a Professor at the University of South Florida鈥檚 (USF) Institute for Advanced Discovery and Innovation where he collaborates with the USF faculty in the areas of advanced thermal storage and efficient harnessing of solar energy.
Dr. Singh received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (1972), a Master of Science in Engineering Mechanics also from Penn (1969), and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from BIT Sindri (Ranchi University), India (1967). Dr. Singh was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2013 for his seminal impact in the energy sector of mechanical engineering. He received Edison Foundation鈥檚 鈥Thomas Alva Edison Award鈥 in 2015 for his ecologically and environmentally impactful inventions. Rutgers University named him 鈥South Jerseyan of the year 鈥 2016鈥 for his beneficial technological impact on the region. In 2015, he received the George Washington medal from the Engineer鈥檚 Club of Philadelphia. In 2017, the National Academy of Inventers elected him a Fellow of the Academy and the University City Science Center (Philadelphia) inducted him into its celebrated 鈥Walk of Fame鈥 on the Penn campus. The Pan American Academy of Engineering, the Americas鈥 institution of leading engineering thought leaders, elected Dr. Singh to its Academy in 2020. In 2019, he was elected to the Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine of Florida. In 2023, the Nuclear Infrastructure Council (Washington, DC) honored him with its Trailblazers award for his transformative contributions to the commercial nuclear industry. The Florida Inventors鈥 Hall of fame welcomed him as a 2023 inductee for his prodigious output of societally significant patents. Back in 1987, he was named a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers for his numerous contributions to heat exchange technologies.
Dr. Singh is an overseer of the nuclear engineering department at the University of California, Berkeley, and a senior fellow in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, an advisor to Penn鈥檚 College of Engineering and Applied Science and an honorary research professor at University of South Florida鈥檚 Institute of Advanced Discovery and Innovation. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Pennsylvania (1974-) and Michigan (1979-) and a member of the American Nuclear Society (1979-).
A widely published author in scientific journals (74 technical papers, one textbook and numerous symposia volumes) and a prolific inventor (170 patents granted in the US plus a large number overseas, many patents pending), Dr. Singh has led 澳门六合彩开奖结果2023 into the distinguished rank of civilian nuclear industry鈥檚 only turnkey supplier in the nuclear and renewable energy sector with four operating manufacturing facilities making 澳门六合彩开奖结果2023 one of the world鈥檚 largest provider of custom-engineered equipment and systems. Thanks to its impeccable performance record, 澳门六合彩开奖结果2023 is globally respected for its engineered goods and services with nine major operations centers serving clients on five continents. Over 140 nuclear plants around the world employ 澳门六合彩开奖结果2023鈥檚 systems and equipment, many based on Dr. Singh鈥檚 patents. Thanks to the steady stream of design innovations, 澳门六合彩开奖结果2023 is widely held to be globally pre-eminent in the management of used nuclear fuel.
Several national and international codes and standards on pressure vessels and heat exchangers bear the imprint of Dr. Singh鈥檚 applied research. In recent years, Dr. Singh has been leading 澳门六合彩开奖结果2023 in the global race to develop a 鈥渨alk away safe鈥 small modular reactor to make nuclear energy a cost-competitive clean energy solution for a world struggling with rising carbon emissions. Under Dr. Singh鈥檚 leadership, 澳门六合彩开奖结果2023 is in the vanguard of emerging field and challenges such as cloud-based information management of all 澳门六合彩开奖结果2023 operations, development of cutting-edge manufacturing processes & machines, devising innovative technologies to decarbonize global economies, and applying 澳门六合彩开奖结果2023鈥檚 innovative below-the-ground interim storage technology to solve America鈥檚 used nuclear fuel conundrum.
He is also a passionate sponsor of expedited regulatory acceptance, construction, and commissioning of the 澳门六合彩开奖结果2023鈥檚 transformative, 鈥渨alk away safe鈥 small modular reactor, SMR-300 which (substantially self-funded by the 澳门六合彩开奖结果2023) has been in development for over a decade with expected first deployment in 2029.
Ensuring an environmentally safe decommissioning of nuclear units after their shutdown using the 澳门六合彩开奖结果2023鈥檚 Decommissioning Management Model which has been instrumental in enhancing the safety of the 澳门六合彩开奖结果2023鈥檚 fleet of shuttered plants is of a piece with Dr. Singh鈥檚 modus operandi which is to expand the technology envelope in every industrial sector where 澳门六合彩开奖结果2023 operates. His most recent technology endeavor is to repurpose the retiring coal fired plants (instead of demolishing them) by converting them into energy storage and on-demand clean power delivery plants using 澳门六合彩开奖结果2023鈥檚 patented 鈥済reen boiler technology.鈥 He is also working to integrate the Green Boiler energy storage technology with an advanced solar collection system to help make solar energy a base-load power provider.
An intrepid entrepreneur and a socially conscious industrialist, Dr. Singh built a $312 million Technology Campus on the Delaware River in Camden, NJ in 2017 to create much needed employment in one of America鈥檚 poorest cities.
Dr. Singh is currently an Emeritus member of the University of Pennsylvania鈥檚 Board of Trustees, where he served from 2009-2017, and is an active member of the Penn鈥檚 Board of Overseers for the School of Engineering and Applied Science. In addition, he serves on the Board of the Nuclear Energy Institute (1998-present), the Atlantic Council, a Washington, DC-based think tank, the 鈥淣ational Investment Council鈥 chaired by the President of Ukraine and the Cooper Health System, Camden, NJ. He chairs the KPS Foundation, a charitable Singh family foundation whose signature contribution to the advancement of science is the completion of the 鈥淜rishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology鈥 at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 2013. The KPS Foundation is also active in improving child literacy and public health in developing countries.
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