Singh (Hindi: ????? ????? ????) was born on 9 September 1959, in Kshatriya family in Anantpur, a village in district Azamgarh in eastern Uttar Pradesh, India.
He is the founding director of IISER Bhopal, on lien from IIT Kanpur.
He set up the whole campus of 200 acres land from scratch during his period.
He was a member of Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India (SAC-PM).
He is fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences.
Singh's major research contributions are in the areas of enantioselective reactions and total synthesis.
His group has designed and developed several new chiral ligands and has achieved total synthesis of natural products using chiron approach.