Professor Mahi R. Singh received both M.Sc. (1970) and Ph.D. (1976) degrees from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi in condensed matter physics. After that, he was awarded an Alexander von Humbold Fellow in Stuttgart University, Germany from 1979 to 1981. Between 1981 and 1985 he was a Research Associate and Lecturer at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. From 1982 to 1983 he worked in INSA, Toulouse, France as a vesting scientist. He also worked as Research Associate at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA. After that, he joined the University of Western Ontario as the associate professor in 1985. Currently, he is the professor in this university. He was a visiting professor at University of Houston, USA from June till November in 1992. He also worked as a chief researcher at CRL HITACHI, Tokyo between November 1992 and May 1993. In summer 1993 and 1994, he was a visiting professor and Royal Society Professor at University of Oxford, UK.

He was the director of the Centre of Chemical Physics at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. He also served as the director of Theoretical Physics Program for many years at the University of Western Ontario, Canada.

Dr. Singh has worked in many research are of science and technology including nanoscience, nanotechnology, nanophotonics, plasmonics, optoelectronics, photonic crystals, Metamaterials, semiconductor here structures, high temperature superconductors, positron annihilation, Josephson Junctions, many-body theories, condensed matter physics, semiconductor devices, Thermal Transport, DNA Molecules and DNA wires and so on. He has published more than 250 papers in International journals. He has written several books which are used as textbooks at UWO, Canada. He has organized several International conferences. He has been invited as a plenary and an invited speaker in several international conferences throughout the world. (see his websitehttp://www.physics.uwo.ca/~msingh/ for more information)