Ashok Goel

Ashok K. Goel is a 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 Ph.D. Program in Human-Centered Computing, Coordinator of the faculty consortium on Creativity, Learning & Cognition, and Co-Coordinator of the faculty consortium on Interactive Intelligence. 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 affiliated with the GVU Center, the Institute for People and Technology, the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines, the Center for 21st Century Universities, and the Health Systems Institute.

Ashok conducts research into human-centered computing, artificial intelligence and cognitive science, with a focus on computational design, discovery, and creativity. The goals of his research are to understand human creativity in conceptual design of complex systems as well as scientific problem solving, to develop interactive tools for aiding people in such creative tasks, and to invent computational systems that are themselves creative. His research explores analogical thinking, systems thinking, visual thinking, and meta-thinking as fundamental processes of design, discovery and creativity. His current projects investigate analogical thinking and systems thinking in biologically inspired engineering design, visual thinking on intelligence tests, and meta-thinking in game-playing agents. Related project focuse on systems thinking and meta-thinking in learning about ecological systems, and analogical thinking and systems thinking in learning about biologically inspired design.

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