Prof. Sanjay Goel

Biography

Since 1988, he has taught many courses to computer science students at NSIT, DCE, IMT, DU, and JIIT. In addition to teaching conventional CS courses like Data Structures, Computer Graphics, and Image Processing, he has also developed and taught several novel interdisciplinary courses like HCI, CSCW, Problem Solving & Research Methodology, Theory of Knowledge, Learning & Research, and Human Aspects for Information Technology. He enjoys and encourages creative interdisciplinary work. He is very passionate about contributing for creation of high quality higher educational programs by emphasizing on (i) setting up high expectations, (ii) pedagogies of engagement (iii) active and inductive learning approaches, and (iv) interdisciplinary & integrated curriculum. His main goals are: Contribute in the transformation of engineering education especially computing education in India by bringing a higher focus on pedagogies of engagement. Contribute to bring computing closer to society, humanities, education, and arts. Create and actively promote a holistic and liberal approach towards computing education. Encourage entrepreneurship among engineering students. Leverage the potential of internet to enhance quality of computing education. He feels very fortunate to have closely worked and interacted with a very large number of stalwarts and lumaniries from various countries in various disciplines – computer science (almost all sub fields), archaeology, art history, anthropology, Indology, etc. He has posted several presentations and lecture notes on Slideshare at http://www.slideshare.net/goelsan and several articles about computing education on his blog, 'Engineering & Computing Education' http://goelsan.wordpress.com. Since 2008, he is the General Co-chair of an annual international conference, IC3 (International Conference on Contemporary Computing, http://www.jiit.ac.in/jiit/ic3) along with a computing stalwart, Prof. Sartaj Sahni. The proceedings of this conference till last year were published by Springer, Germany and 2103 proceedings are published by IEEE, USA. He has organized several national and international workshops, seminars, and conferences. He has been actively involved in curriculum design for university as well as school level courses. He has been an invited speaker at various platforms. Prior to joining JIIT, he was working as Director (Multimedia) at Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA). At IGNCA, he played key role in establishing “Cultural Informatics Laboratory.” This experience gave him a wonderful opportunity to collaborate with scholars and artists of varied fields from all over the world. It helped him deepen his understanding of holistic thinking, multi and trans-disciplinary work, and centrality of human aspects in software development. He has been a faculty member at Delhi Institute of Technology (DIT, Now Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology (NSIT)), Delhi University for more than a decade. He founded and led Computer Graphics Laboratory at DIT. In the beginning, he worked at National Informatics Centre, New Delhi for two years. During his student days, he has been an intern at CEERI, Pilani, Microprocessor Application Engineering Program (MAEP), Department of Electronics, Govt. of India, New Delhi, and Solid State Physics Laboratory (SSPL), Delhi.

Research Interest

Computer Graphics, Computer Vision, and HCI especially wrt the domains of Cultural Heritage, Entertainment, and Education Software Engineering Education Collaboration Technology Software Engineering process and Empirical software engineering