Amit Goyal

Dr. Amit Goyal
Born Rajasthan, India
Residence New York, USA
Nationality  United States
Education

Schooling at Mayo College, Ajmer, India.

B.Tech in Metallurgical Engineering from IIT Kharagpur.

MS in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering from the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY.

Ph.D in Materials Science & Engineering from the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY.

Executive MBA from Purdue University, IN and Tilburg University, The Netherlands.

Executive Management training from the Sloan School of Management, MIT.

Amit Goyal is the Director of the RENEW Institute at SUNY-Buffalo in Buffalo, NY.[1] RENEW stands for Research and Education in Energy, Environment & Water. RENEW is a university-wide, interdisciplinary research institute that focuses on complex energy and environmental issues, as well as the social and economic issues with which they are connected. RENEW aims to establish SUNY-Buffalo as a global leader in research and education in select areas in energy, environment and water.[2] The RENEW institute engages over 100 faculty from seven UB schools and colleges (which have over 30 relevant decanal departments) and will hire over 19 additional tenure-track or tenured faculty in carefully selected, interdisciplinary, thematic focus and thrusts areas. The seven schools and colleges include the School of Architecture and Planning, College of Arts and Sciences, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Law School, School of Management, School of Public Health and Health Professions and the School of Medicine.[2] He is also Empire Innovation Professor at SUNY-Buffalo in the departments of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics and all Materials, Design & Innovation.[1] He is also Emeritus Corporate Fellow, UT-Battelle/Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Previously he was a UT-Battelle Corporate Fellow, a Battelle Distinguished Inventor and an ORNL Distinguished Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratories in Tennessee.[3] He was also the Chair of the UT-Battelle-ORNL Corporate Fellow Council.[4]

He is one of the leading scientists world-wide in the field of advanced electronic and energy materials including High Temperature Superconductors. He has over 80 issued patents.[5] He also has over 350 publications. A recent analysis of citations and papers published world-wide in the last decade in the field of high-temperature superconductivity, between 1999–2009, conducted by Thomson Reuters Essential Science Indicators (ESI), ranks him as the most cited author worldwide.[6]

Education

He did his schooling at Mayo College,[7] in Rajasthan, India. He received the degree of Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech) Honors degree in Metallurgical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 1986.[8] He completed his M.S. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from the University of Rochester in 1988. He completed his Ph.D. in Material Science and Engineering from the same institute in 1991. He has an Executive MBA from the Krannert Business School at Purdue University,[9] an executive International MBA from Tilburg University, The Netherlands and Executive business training from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

The University of Rochester, New York, awarded him a Distinguished Scholar Medal[10] in 2006 and the Indian Institute of Technology awarded him the Distinguished Alumnus Award[11] in 2009.

Career

Goyal joined SUNY-Buffalo as Director of the RENEW Institute and as Empire Innovation Professor in January 2015. Previously, Goyal was at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory from 1991 to December 2014.[3] He has developed clean energy technologies for over two decades. He also works in the field of low-cost, large-area, high-performance, flexible electronic devices including superconductors and photovoltaics. His research has proved pivotal in the development of single crystal like behaviour in long lengths of superconducting materials. He has contributed to the development of wires that allow high-temperature superconductors to allow very high performance to be obtained in a cost-effective manner. High-temperature superconductors are used in numerous areas such as transformers, generators, motors, magnets, underground transmission cables and fault current limiters. All high-temperature superconducting wires manufactured world-wide, use one of his many innovations for fabrication of high-performance wires. He has also made significant contributions to the fields of texture and grain boundary network control and to other electronic materials such as photovoltaics.

In 2011, Goyal received the inaugural E. O. Lawrence Award for Energy Science and Innovation.[12] The E. O. Lawrence Award is given by the United States Energy Secretary on behalf of the President of the United States, for meritorious contributions to the development, use or control of atomic energy, and is officially awarded by the United States Secretary of Energy.[13] It consists of a certificate,[13] a gold medal and a cash prize of $20,000. The award was officially awarded in a ceremony on May 21, 2012.[14] Goyal's award cites his "pioneering research and transformative contributions to the field of applied high temperature superconductivity, including fundamental materials science advances and technical innovations enabling large-scale applications of these novel materials". Goyal was invited by the Energy Secretary to give a special lecture associated with this award at USDOE. The lecture was live streamed and has been archived on Science Cinema.[15]

In 2012, Goyal also received the World Technology Award in the category of Advanced Materials from the World Technology Network (WTN) in a gala awards ceremony at the Time & Life Building on October 23, 2012.[16] These are presented by the WTN in association with Time Magazine, Fortune Magazine, CNN, Science/AAAS and MIT's Technology Review Magazine, with a stated goal to recognize "individuals and companies for innovations of the greatest long-term significance" in their respective fields.[17] This is a prestigious award as also illustrated by other recipients in the category of Advanced materials, including George M. Whitesides (2001), Micheal Greatzel (2006) and Nobel Laureate Alan J. Heegar (2013).

In 2010, he received the 2010 R&D Magazine's Innovator of the Year Award.[18] [19] [20] [21][22] R&D Magazine’s Innovator of the Year Award has been presented to some of history’s most accomplished inventors since 2001. The award recognizes career accomplishments in scientific research and technology development, spanning disciplines from medical technology to information technology. Recent winners include the NASA Curiosity Team, David Ferrucci, Cameron Piron (2008), Elon Musk (2007), Dean Kamen (2006) and Google's Larry Page (2002). The Innovator-Of-The-Year award is a special recognition for sustained innovative contributions.[23]

The R&D magazine also awards the R&D100 awards to the 100 most innovative products introduced each year in any field. Goyal has received eight R&D 100 awards.

The NRI today listed him in the top 10 list of "movers and shakers" in 2010.[24] He was also listed in top 50 Coolest Desis of 2010 by DesiClub.com.[25]

Entrepreneurship

He is the Founder, President & CEO of TapeSolar Inc. This company is developing the next generation of high-efficiency, low-cost solar cells. TapeSolar Inc. is a Delaware-based private equity investment funded company and is located in the Austin, Texas area. He is also the Founder, President & CEO of TexMat LLC, a Delaware-based intellectual property holding and consulting company.

Awards and honors

He has received numerous internal and external, national & international awards of excellence including:

He currently serves on the Advisory Boards of NanoTech Briefs, the Journal of the Korean Institute of Applied Superconductivity, Recent Patents on Materials Science and Superconductor Science & Technology. He is also a member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Materials Research and the Journal of the American Ceramic Society, and has served as Guest Editor for the TMS publication, Journal of Minerals, Metals and Materials (JOM). He has served as Chair of the Electronics Division of the American Ceramic Society. He also sits on the Boards of many organizations.

He is a fellow of nine, prestigious, professional societies including the National Academy of Inventors, the Materials Research Society, American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the ASM International, the World Innovation Foundation, the Institute of Physics and the American Ceramic Society and the World Technology Network.

Personal life

Born in India, Dr. Amit Goyal now lives in upstate New York. He is married and has two children.

References

  1. 1 2
  2. 1 2
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Corporate Fellows
  4. ↑ Oak Ridge National Laboratory - Corporate Fellows Council
  5. ↑ An Impressive Patent Portfolio - ORNL Review Vol. 39, No. 3, 2006
  6. ↑ Amit Goyal Interview - High-Temperature Superconductors - ScienceWatch.com
  7. ↑ Main Bldg Mayo College
  8. ↑ Distinguished Alumnus of IIT Kharagpur
  9. ↑ Purdue University
  10. 1 2 Office of the Provost :: University of Rochester
  11. 1 2 Distinguish Alumnus Awardee
  12. 1 2 ORNL's Amit Goyal receives E.O. Lawrence Award
  13. 1 2 R. B. Laughlin - E. O. Lawrence Award
  14. ↑
  15. ↑ http://www.osti.gov/sciencecinema/biblio/1043697
  16. 1 2
  17. ↑ World Technology Award
  18. ↑ http://www.rdmag.com/Awards/Innovator-Of-The-Year/2010/11/Innovator-Of-The-Year-Amit-Goyal/
  19. ↑ http://www.rdmag.com/Awards/Innovator-Of-The-Year/2010/12/Innovator-Of-The-Year-The-Business-Side-Of-Superconductivity/
  20. ↑ http://www.battelle.org/media/press-releases/scientists-at-battelle-affiliated-labs-win-two-top-prizes-from-r-d-magazine
  21. ↑ http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2010-11-03/news/27574862_1_amit-goyal-awards-innovation
  22. ↑ http://www.oakridger.com/article/20101101/NEWS/311019995
  23. ↑ http://www.rd100awards.com/why-should-you-enter-rd-100-awards
  24. ↑ http://www.nritoday.net/community-news/714-the-movers-and-shakers-of-2010
  25. ↑ http://www.desiclub.com/community/culture/culture_article.cfm?id=519
  26. ↑ http://www.ornl.gov/ornl/news/news-releases/2014/c7f448c4-50de-4e11-b5ae-1bbde3534728
  27. ↑ http://oakridgetoday.com/2014/12/19/ornls-goyal-elected-fellow-national-academy-inventors/
  28. ↑ http://knoxblogs.com/atomiccity/2014/12/16/amit-goyal-star-inventor/
  29. ↑ ORNL wins 9 R&D 100 Awards | Frank Munger's Atomic City Underground | knoxnews.com
  30. ↑ Oak Ridge National Laboratory - ORNL's Amit Goyal selected as Materials Research Society Fellow
  31. ↑ 2010 R&D Innovator of the Year: Amit Goyal, PhD | R&D Mag
  32. ↑ The Business Side of Superconductivity | R&D Mag
  33. ↑ http://www.wtn.net/
  34. ↑ http://www.aps.org/
  35. ↑ http://www.acers.org/
  36. ↑ http://www.asminternational.org/
  37. ↑ http://www.iop.org/
  38. ↑ http://www.aaas.org/
  39. ↑ "1999 Young Innovators Under 35". Technology Review. 1999. Retrieved August 15, 2011.

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