Professor Harvinder Singh has been an academic for nearly two decades with strong teaching and research expertise in informatics, traditional and molecular plant breeding approaches for the improvement and management of cereal crops, and medicinal plants. He has published over 50 research articles in peer reviewed journals, books and conference proceedings. He also presented his research at national and international conferences. He has successfully secured and completed many research grants. Additionally, in his current role as Program Director, he has demonstrated strong academic management and higher education compliance knowledge and capability. Prof Singh also has a strong Research and Higher Degree supervision experience.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Doctor of Philosophy, Indian Agriculture Research Institute, New Delhi-Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), India, 2010, Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani, India, 2002

• Master of Engineering, C.S. Azad University of Agriculture &Technology, Kanpur, India, 2000

• Master of Science, C.S. Azad University of Agriculture &Technology, Kanpur, India, 2000

• Bachelor of Science, C.S. Azad University of Agriculture &Technology, Kanpur, India, 1998

ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP

• Member, Executive Management Team, Leaders Institute, 2022-current

• Deputy Chair of Academic Board, Leaders Institute, 2023-current

• Member, Course Advisory Committee for Agribusiness, Leaders Institute, 2017-current

• Distinguished Visiting Professor, Prestige Institute of Engineering Management and Research, India, 2022

• Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research and Optimisation, Torrens University, 2022

COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE

Member, International Food and Agribusiness Management Association (IFAMA)

Member, The Royal National Agricultural and Industrial Association of Queensland (RNA)

Member, Agribusiness Australia

Member, American Society of Plant Biology

Member: American Society of Agronomy

Member, Crop Science Society of America

Member, Soil Science Society of America

EXTERNAL EXPERT REVIEWER FOR ACADEMIC JOURNALS

BMC Theoretical Biology and medical modeling

Bio Med Central

Journal of Biomedical Research

Elsevier

African Journal of Biotechnology

Academic Press

International Research Journals of Biochemistry and Bioinformatics

Turkish Journal of Botany

PATENTS

• Singh, H. et al (2022). An IoT based automatic fish disease diagnosis system for Bio-floc. Patent Number: 2022/02605-South Africa

• Singh, H. et al (2022). A self-guided unmanned aircraft system for agricultural application and beekeeping (Patent No: B64C 39/02-Germany)

• Singh, H. et al (2022). A self-controlled unmanned aerial vehicle system for farming applications and its working method thereof, Innovation Patent (Commonwealth of Australia). Patent Number: 2021105033

• Sustainable manufacturing of Organic Fertilizer. Innovation Patent (Commonwealth of Australia), Patent Number: 2021101628. (2021)

• Agro Wings: A Digital Farming Drone, Innovation Patent (Commonwealth of Australia Application No: 2021105033) (2021)

SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Singh, H. et.al. (2022). SALT: transfer learning-based threat model for attack detection in smart home. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 1-19. 

• Masih. J., Deshpande, M., Singh, H., Deutcsh, J., (2022). Study of Consumer Behaviour Shift Paradigm Based On Social Media Driven Public Opinion For Organic Foods In Pre-Covid And Covid Scenarios, The British Journal of Administrative Management, 58(153), 1746 1278

• Masih, J., Deshpande, M., Singh, H., & Deutsch, J. (2022). Study of Public Sentiment Using Social Media for Organic Foods in Pre-Covid and Post-Covid Times Worldwide. In From the Internet of Things to the Internet of Ideas: The Role of Artificial Intelligence: Proceedings of EAMMIS 2022 (pp. 125-134). Cham: Springer International Publishing. (Best Paper Award).

• Singh, H., et.al. (2021). Onion genotypes Red Cereole, followed by Katarina Red 3 and Katarina Red 7 grown in agro climatic conditions of Cold desert, Leh India, are superior with respect to post harvest quality parameters. Australian Journal of Crop Science, Ms. No. AJCS- Singh-PNE3169  Singh, S., et.al. (2021). Metaheuristic Routing: A taxonomy and energy-efficient framework in Internet of Things. IEEE Access-Manuscript DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS. 2021.312

• Singh, S., et.al. (2019). Hydroalcoholic extract of Swertia Chirata and Swertia Cordata Attenuates Hypoxia-Mediated Memory Dysfunction by improving neuronal survival in Wistar Rats. Asian Journal Pharmacy Clinical Research, 12(2): 356-362.

RESEARCH GRANTS

• Consumer Behaviour Anaysis of Organic Foods in Europe And Asia Pacific In Pre COVID and Post COVID times via Social Media. Co-Investigator, University of Essex, Prestige Institute of Engineering Management & Research and Leaders Institute (2020-2022)

UNIT COORDINATOR

• AP400 Agribusiness Production and Farm Management

• AP313 Agricultural Technology and Innovation

• IM401 Introduction to Agroinformatics

• IM421 Information Systems

• IM501 Agriculture Data and Information Management

• RS501 Research Methodology

• ST401 Data Analytics and Modelling

APPROVED TO TEACH

• AP503 Agricultural Technology and Innovation

• AP313 Agricultural Technology and Innovation

• AP520 Challenges and Innovation in Global Food Security

• AP321 Precision Agriculture

• AP321 Precision Agriculture

• IM410 Cybersecurity and Risk Management

• IM110 Cybersecurity and Risk   Management

• IM513 Agricultural Systems Thinking and Dynamics

• RS500 Capstone Project

• RS521 Research Project