Dr Goel was born in New Delhi, India, in 1960. He obtained his BTech Degree in electrical engineering from the Regional Engineering College, Warangal, India in 1983, and his MSc and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, in 1988 and 1991 respectively. He joined the School of EEE at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, in 1991 where he is presently an associate professor and Head of the Division of Power Engineering. Dr Goel is a senior member of the IEEE. He received the 1997 & 2002 Teacher of the Year Awards for the School of EEE, “Best Teacher of Year 2” awards for 1999/2000, 2000/2001 & 2001/2002, and the “Best Teacher of Year 3” awards for 2001/2002 and 2002/03. Dr Goel served as the Publications Chair of the 1995 IEEE PES Energy management & Power Delivery (EMPD) conference, Organizing Chairman of the 1998 IEEE PES EMPD Conference, Vice-Chairman of the IEEE Power Engineering Society (PES) Winter Meeting 2000, Honorary Secretary of the International Power Engineering Conferences (IPEC) in 1997, 1999, 2001 & 2003, Chair of the IEEE PES Powercon2004 and Chair of IPEC2005.
Dr Goel received the IEEE PES Singapore Chapter Outstanding Engineer Award in 2000. Dr Goel is the Regional Editor for Asia for the International Journal of Electric Power Systems Research, and an editorial board member of the International Journal for Emerging Electric Power Systems. He is a deputy director at NTU’s Protective Technology Research Center (PTRC). Dr Goel is the Deputy Chair of the IEEE Singapore Section since Jan 2005, and also the IEEE PES Region 10 Chapters Representative since Jan 2005.