Ashok K. Goel is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Cognitive Science in the
School of Interactive Computing at
Georgia Institute of Technology. He is Director of the School's Design & Intelligence Laboratory and a Co-Director of Georgia Tech's
Center for Biologically Inspired Design. He is also Coordinator of the Cognitive Science
Group and the
AI & CogSci Laboratory.
His research into design AI and design cognition explores functional modeling and reasoning, analogical reasoning, visual reasoning, and meta-reasoning. Creative design of physical systems (e.g., biologically inspired engineering design), design of self-adaptive software agents (e.g., game-playing agents), and visual cognition (e.g., visual analogy) form the context for much of this research.
Ashok received his Ph.D. in
Computer and Information Science
from
The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio,
where he was a member of the
Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence Research.
At Georgia Tech, he teaches classes in
AI,
Knowledge-Based AI,
Cognitive Science, and
Design Computing.
He is affiliated with the
GVU Research Center, the RIM Research Center,
the Georgia Tech & Emory University's Health Systems Institute, and the DHS
Southeastern Regional Visual Analytics Center at Georgia Tech & University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
He is a member of the
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), the
Cognitive Science Society, and the
Design Society's Special Interest Group on Design Creativity.
Ashok was
a Vice-Chair and the Local Chair of the
Third International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition (DCC'08) held at Georgia Tech in June 2008; The conference proceedings, edited by
J. Gero & A. Goel, are available from Springer.
He is a member of the program committees of the
Eighth International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR-09),
the Seventh ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition (CC'09),
and the First International Conference on Computational Creativity. He gave a keynote talk at the CBR Track at FLAIRS-2009,
an invited talk at the IJCAI-2009 Workshop on Grand Challenges for Reasoning from Experiences, and organized a symposium on Visual Reasoning in Modeling and Design at CogSci-09.
He is Co-Chair (with Mateja Jamnik and N. Hari Narayanan) of Diagrams 2010, the Sixth International Conference on Theory and Applications of Diagrammatic Reasoning, which
will be held in Portland, Orgeon, on Aug 9-11, 2010.
Ashok is an Associate Editor of
IEEE Intelligent Systems and ASME Transactions: Journal of Computing and
Information Science in Engineering. He also serves on the editorial boards of
the
Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence,
Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing, and
Advanced Engineering Informatics. He co-edited (with
R. Davis &
J. Gero ) a recent issue of AIEDAM on
Multimodal Design. He is presently co-editing three special issues: AIEDAM Special Issue on the Third International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition
(with Ellen Do), JCISE Special Issue on Knowledge-Based Design (with Andres Gomez de Silva Garza), and Educational Technology and Society Special Issue on Creative Design (with Chien-Sing Lee & Janet Kolodner).
Contact
Ashok K. Goel
School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
Technology Square Research Building, 85 Fifth Street NW
Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA
Email: goel@cc.gatech.edu; Phone: (404) 894-4994; Fax: (404) 894-0673
Assistant
Ms. Cynthia Bryant; cebryant@cc.gatech.edu; 404-894-3807
Travel
1/14/09-1/16/09 - NSF Creativity Workshop, Washington DC
2/17/09-2/19/09 - NSF REESE Workshop on Education and Learning, Washington DC
2/22/09-2/24/09 - DARPA Experience-Based Narrative Memory Workshop, Washington DC
5/6/09-5/9/09 - IMFAR 09, Chicago
5/19/09-5/21/09 - Keynote Talk, FLAIRS CBR Track, Sanibel Island, Florida
6/7/09-6/10/09 - IES PI Meeting
7/10/09-7/15/09 - Invited Talk, IJCAI CBR Workshop, Pasadena, California
9/14/09-9/18-09 - IEEE Self-Adaptive & Self-Organizing Systems, San Francisco.
10/27/09-10/30/09 - ACM Creativity & Cognition, Berkeley, California
??? 1/9/10-1/11/10 - Computational Creativity, Lisbon, Portugal ???
2/26/10 - Invited talk at CMU
Personal
Ashok has two sons: Kunal (13 years old), an Eighth Grader in the Magnet Program
for High Achievers at Chamblee Middle School, and Gautam (16 years old), an Eleventh Grader in the Magnet Program for
High Achievers at Chamblee Charter High School. This summer, Gautam participated in the Governor's Honor Program in Mathematics
at Valdosta State University in Valdosta, Georgia, and Kunal attended a sports camp at Agnes Scott College in Atlanta.
