Dr Ashok Kumar Goel is presently Director and Principal, Hindustan Institute of Management and Technology, Jagadhari, Haryana. He holds a Ph. D. from Thapar University formerly known as Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala. He has more than two decades of teaching and research experience. He is a life member of Indian Society for Technical Education. His research interests include neural networks, fuzzy logic systems, genetic algorithms, and particle swarm optimization and has authored numerous national and international research papers.