Ajit Singh, PEng

Dr. Ajit Singh is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo.

Dr. Singh's expertise lies in network-centric computing, parallel processing, and distributed systems. His research focuses on topics such as parallel computing with workstation clusters, simulating networks of superscalar processors, and debugging for parallel and distributed systems. He also specializes in performance debugging and visualization for parallel applications, as well as creating programming environments for developing large, fault-tolerant distributed systems.

Dr. Singh is the co-founder of Slipstream™, a technology company that is now a subsidiary of Research In Motion (RIM). Slipstream™ delivers high-performance acceleration, compression, and network optimization technologies for dial-up, fixed wireless, and broadband networks.

In addition to his academic and entrepreneurial work, Dr. Singh has provided consulting services to prominent companies, including IBM Canada, ISOPIA (acquired by Sun Microsystems), Bell Canada, Nortel, and Research In Motion.

• Parallel and distributed programming models, Multiprocessor architectures, Debugging in parallel and distributed systems, Parallelism in I/O and databases, Computer & Software Engineering, Database Systems, Network-Centric Computing, Software Architecture and Design

• 1992, Doctorate PhD, University of Alberta, Alberta

• 1986, Master's MASc, University of Alberta, Alberta

• 1983, Master's M.Phil, J. Nehru University, India

• 1978, Bachelor's BSc, Bihar Institute Of Technology, India