Manitoba Singh Taygi better known as M. S. Tyagi is a retired professor of Electrical Engineering form Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.
Education
Professor Tyagi received his Master of Science degree in Physics from University of Lucknow, India and the Doctor-Ing degree in Electrical Engineering from Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen University, West Germany, in 1966. In year 1966, he finished his Doctor-Ing degree with thesis entitled: About the breakthrough behaviour of silicon diodes.
Career
Born in village Rohana Kalan of the Muzaffarnagar district of the Indian state Uttar Pradesh. Professor Tyagi"s started his career as a researcher at Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute, Pilani. After CEERI, Pilani he moved to West Germany to pursue his Doctorate from Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen University.
At Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule, he enrolled his Doctor-Ing (German doctorate degree in engineering) degree in Electrical Engineering.
During his Doctorate studies at Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule, he were employed as a laboratory development Engineer by Telefunken AG, Ulm, Germany, from 1962–1964. From 1967–1968, he held a Postdoctoral teaching fellowship at University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada and during 1968–1969 he was a Research Scientist at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur were established in 1959 with consortium of nine leading United States of America research universities as part of the Kanpur Indo-American Programme (KIAP).
He was invited by Indian Government to join IIT, Kanpur as a faculty. In 1969 he joined the Electrical Engineering department of the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, as an Assistant Professor and became a Professor in 1977.
At Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur he has been mainly responsible for the development of the Semiconductor Devices Laboratory.
Since February 1980, he has been a Visiting Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering ESAT Laboratory, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, on leave of absence from IIT, Kanpur. After retiring from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur as a Professor of Electrical Engineering, he joined Electrical Engineering and Electronics Engineering department of the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani as a Professor. In July 2003, he joined Electronics and Communications Engineering department of Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida.
He was also a visiting Professor at Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Noida.
Professor Tyagi is a life fellow of Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers, Semiconductor society of India and Indian Society for Technical Education.