Amit Goyal
| Dr. Amit Goyal | |
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| Born | Rajasthan, India |
| Residence | New York, USA |
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| Education | Schooling at Mayo College, Ajmer, India., IIT Kharagpur, University of Rochester, University of Rochester, Purdue University, Tilburg University, MIT. |
| Notable awards | Presidential Level, DOE's E. O. Lawrence Award in "Energy Science & Innovation" (2011), Elected to National Academy of Inventors (2014), R&D Magazine's Innovator-of-the-Year Award (2010), World Technology Award in Advanced Materials (2012), Ten R&D 100 Awards, Three Federal Laboratory Consortium Awards, DOE's Energy 100 Award, Lockheed-Martin's NOVA Award, Distinguished Scholar Award from the University of Rochester, Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Indian Institute of Technology, MIT's Global Indus Technovator Award (2005), MIT's Technology Review Magazine's TR-100 Award (1999), Fellow of NAI, MRS, APS, ACERS, ASM, IOP, WTN, WIF. |
Amit Goyal is the Director of the multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary RENEW (Research & Education in Energy, Environment & Water) Institute at SUNY-Buffalo in Buffalo, New York. He is also Empire Innovation Professor at SUNY-Buffalo.
Previously he was a UT-Battelle Corporate Fellow, a Battelle Distinguished Inventor and an ORNL Distinguished Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratories in Tennessee. He was also the Chair of the UT-Battelle-ORNL Corporate Fellow Council.
Goyal is one of the leading scientists worldwide in the field of advanced electronic and energy materials including High Temperature Superconductors. He has over 85 issued patents. He also has over 350 publications. In 2009, an analysis of citations and papers published worldwide in the last decade in the field of high-temperature superconductivity, between 1999–2009, conducted by Thomson Reuters Essential Science Indicators (ESI), ranked him as the most cited author worldwide during those years.
Goyal did his schooling at Mayo College, in Ajmer, 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. 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, 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 in 2006 and the Indian Institute of Technology awarded him the Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2009.
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