Ashok Goel

Ashok conducts research into artificial intelligence, cognitive science and human-centered computing, with a focus on computational design, modeling and creativity. He is the Editor-in-Chief of AAAI’s AI Magazine, and an Associate Editor of IEEE’s Intelligent Systems, Cognitive Systems’ Advances in Cognitive Systems Journal, Design Research Society’s Design Science Journal, and AI for Engineering, Analysis and Manufacturing. He is the primary architect of Jill Watson, a virtual teaching assistant for answering questions in online education.

Ashok teaches an online course on knowledge-based artificial intelligence as part of Georgia Tech’s Online Master of Science in Computer Science program. The video lessons for the course are available for free from Udacity.

Edited Volumes

• J. William Murdock and Ashok Goel. (2011) Self-Improvement through Self-Understanding: Model-Based Reflection for Agent Self-Adaptation. E-Book published through Amazon, available on Kindle.
• Ashok K. Goel, Daniel McAdams & Robert Stone (editors, 2014) Biologically Inspired Design: Computational Methods and Tools. London, UK: Springer-Verlag.

Edited Journal Special Issues

• D. Brown. A. Duffy & A.K. Goel. Special Issue on Machine Learning in Design, AI for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing, Cambridge University Press, July 1998.
• A.K. Goel, R. Davis & J. Gero. Special Issue on Multimodal Design, AI for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing, Cambridge University Press, April 2008.
• A.K. Goel & E. Do. Special Issue on Design Computing and Cognition, AI for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing, Cambridge University Press, 24(1), February 2010.
• A.K. Goel & A. Gomez. Special Issue on Knowledge-Based Design of ASME Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, September 2010.
• C.S. Lee, J.L. Kolodner & A.K. Goel. Special Issue on Creative Design of International Journal of Educational Technology and Society, February 2011.
• A.K. Goel, D. McAdams & R. Stone. Special Issue on Biologically Inspired Design. ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, 136(11), November 2014.
• L. Shu & A. Goel. Special Issue on Analogical Thinking. AI for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing. May 2015.

Edited Conference Proceedings

• John Gero & Ashok Goel (editors). Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition. Berlin: Springer, June 2008.
• Ashok Goel, Mateja Jamnik & N. Hari Naryananan. (editors). Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams, Portland, Oregon, August 2010, Berlin, Springer, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 6170.
• Ashok Goel, D. Fox Harrell, Brian Magerko, Yukari Nagai & Jane Prophet (editors). Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Creativity & Cognition, The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, November 3–6, 2011, ACM.
• Ashok Goel & Mark Riedl (editors). Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, May 28–31, 2015. Cognitive Systems Foundation. http://www.cogsys.org/proceedings/2015.
• Ashok K. Goel, M. Belén Díaz-Agudo, Thomas Roth-Berghofer. Case-Based Reasoning Research and Development – Proceedings of the 24th International Conference, ICCBR 2016, Atlanta, USA, October 31 - November 2, 2016.
• Ashok K. Goel, A.K. Jordanous, and A. Pease. Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Computational Creativity, Atlanta, USA, June 19–23, 2017.

Ashok lives in Atlanta, Georgia. He has two sons, Gautam and Kunal.