Dr. Varun Pratap Singh is an assistant professor with the Mechanical Engineering cluster at the University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES), Dehradun, India. He received his B.Tech., M.Tech., and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Uttar Pradesh Technical University and Uttarakhand Technical University, respectively. He has 12 years of teaching, five years of research, and seven years of administrative experience as a center head of a Centre of Excellence (CoE), industry-academia coordinator, and responsible for Industria-Academia integration and providing solutions to industries for their real-life challenges related to design, product development, operations, automation, and application of new technologies. Industrial consultation on the design and development of special-purpose machines is one of the things he provides. He provides industrial consultation on developing a new business model or upgrading an existing business with business plans and the most up-to-date technologies with partial and complete automation. He published six research articles (including four SCI papers), five patents, and three book chapters. He completed nine projects as Principal Investigator (PI) and two projects as Co-PI for various government research organizations and industry partners. His research interests include renewable energy sources, including solar energy, small and micro-hydro, wind energy and their applications, and special-purpose machines (SPM).