Dr. Rajendra Singh

D. Houser Banks Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
and Director of Center for Silicon Nanoelectronics
Clemson University

Rajendra Singh is D. Houser Banks Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of Center for Silicon Nanoelectronics at Clemson University, Clemson, USA. During the energy crisis of 1973, he decided to do his Ph.D. dissertation in the area of Silicon Solar Cells. In the last 42 years, he has witnessed and contributed to the growth of photovoltaic industry. With proven success in operations, project/program leadership, R&D, product/process commercialization, and start-ups, Dr. Singh is a leading photovoltaics (PV) and semiconductor expert with over 35 years of industrial and academic experience of photovoltaic and semiconductor industries. From solar cells to integrated circuits, he has led the work on semiconductor and photovoltaic device materials and processing by manufacturable innovation and defining critical path. One of his current focus is to eradicate global energy poverty by using photovoltaics electricity based on DC microgrid and batteries. He is recipient of a number of International awards. Photovoltaics World (October 2010) selected him as one of the 10 Global “Champions of Photovoltaic Technology”. Dr. Singh is 2014 recipient of the SPIE Technology Achievement Award. On April 17, 2014 President Obama honored him as “Champion of Change” for Solar Deployment. He is Fellow of IEEE, SPIE, AAAS and ASM.