简介：Dinesh Singh is born in Varanasi district's Babatpur area in Bhumihar Brahmin family. Singh earned his B.A. (Hons. – Maths) in 1975 and M.A. (Maths) in 1977 from St. Stephen's College, followed M.Phil (Maths) in 1978 from the University of Delhi. He did PhD in Math from Imperial College London in 1981.[3][4] He holds numerous honorary doctorates to his credit some of them being awarded by University of Edinburgh, National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, and University College Cork, Ireland.

Singh started his career as Lecturer at St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi in 1981. Thereafter he joined Department of Mathematics, University of Delhi in 1987. His area of specialization include Functional analysis, Operator Theory, and Harmonic analysis. He is adjunct professor at the University of Houston and has also taught at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi. He officiated briefly as Pro Vice Chancellor, University of Delhi, before being appointed Vice Chancellor on 29 October 2010.