Bio Data


Name : Vishal Goyal

Sex : Male

Date of Birth : 23-11-1977

Marital Status : Married

Official Address : Assistant Professor,

Department Of Computer Science,

Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab

Mobile: 9417671421

Residence: 0175-2280054

Email:vishal.pup@gmail.com

Areas of Interest: Natural Language Processing, DNA Computing, Theory of Computation, Database Management Systems, Programming


Educational Qualification:


  1. Ph.D. in Computer Science from Punjabi University Patiala under the esteemed supervision of Dr. G.S.Lehal, Professor,Department of Computer Science, Punjabi University, Patiala. Machine Translation is available for use at http://h2p.learnpunjabi.org

Title: Development of a Hindi to Punjabi Machine Translation System.

  1. M.Tech (CS) with 70% from Rajasthan Vidyapeeth Deemed University, Udiapur, Rajasthan.

  2. M.C.A. with 79% marks from Punjabi University,Patiala.

  3. B.Sc.(CS) with 75.5% marks from Panjab University,Chandigarh.

  4. 10+2 (NM) with 72% marks from R.S.D. College, Ferozepur City

  5. 10th with 82% marks from D.C. Model Sr. Secondary School,Ferozepur

City.


Additional Qualification:

Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD)


Work Experience: (Total : 10 years approx)

  1. Teaching Experience : 7 years 7 months

    1. 3 years 2 months at Doaba College Jalandhar at regular post.

    2. Department of Computer Science, Punjabi University,Patiala as regular Lecturer(CSE). (Current Status)

  2. Software Industry Experience : 2.2 years

    1. 6 months at Networld Chandigarh as Software Developer

    2. 1.6 years at DSF internet Services and Net4India Pvt. Ltd as Team Leader.

Professional Bodies Memberships:

  1. Life member of Punjab Academy of Sciences

  2. Editorial Board member for Journal of Emerging Trends in Web Intelligence (JETWI)

  3. Editorial Board Member for “Atti della Fondazione Giorgio Ronchi”, Italy.

  4. Reviewer and Publicity Committee Member for IJCSI, France

  5. Reviewer for 'IJCSIS 2009' Technical Committee

  6. Reviewer for African Journal of Information and Communication Technology

  7. Guest Editor of JETWI Special issue May 2010.

  8. Reviewer for IJITKM, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, Haryana,India

  9. Editorial Board Member for “DAV Journal of Computing”, Jalandhar, Punjab.

  10. Advisory and Organizing Committee Member for NLP Workshop to be organized by CIET, Rajpura during 21-23 December,2009.

11. Board of Studies Member for PTU, Jalandhar.



Funded Research Projects:

1. “Grammar Checking System for Punjabi”, Funded by Ministry of Information Technology, New Delhi worth Rs. 25 lakhs by DRDO, New Delhi for two years. Principal Investigator – Prof. G.S. Lehal.


Administration Experience:

  1. Organized National Conference – RAFIT 2009 at the department of Computer Science, Punjabi University, Patiala during 9-10 April,2009. Website: http://www.punjabiuniversity.ac.in/rafit2009.html

  2. Acted as Hostel Warden for Shaheed Bhagat Singh Hall , Punjabi University Patiala from 01-09-2006 to 06-09-2007.

  3. Acting as Associate Placement Officer for M.C.A. and M.Tech. Students of DCS, PUP. and Incharge Placements for All Science Streams in University.

  4. Acting as Executive member for Central Placement Cell of Punjabi University, Patiala appointed by Honorable Vice Chancellor the University.

  5. Acting as Coordinator for Departmental Alumni Association.

  6. Acting as Executive Member of Central University Alumni Association of Punjabi University, Patiala.

  7. Acted as Organization Secretary for National Level Conference RAFIT 2009 at department of Computer Science, Punjabi University, Patiala.

  8. Inspected Number of Punjabi University, Patiala affiliated colleges for giving affiliations to colleges for starting new courses.

  9. Acted as Organization Secretary for National Level Seminar RAFIP 2009 at department of Computer Science, Punjabi University, Patiala.

Awards and Scholarships:

  1. Honorary Membership by North America Punjabi University Alumni Association, North America.

  2. Young Scientist Awardee 2005 at 8TH Punjab Science Congress at Punjab Science Academy, Punjabi University, Patiala.

  3. National Merit Scholarship Award by Punjab School Education Board , Mohali.

  4. Biography published in Marquis Who’s Who in the World (USA) 2009 in Science and Engineering.

  5. Certificate of appreciation by JETWI

Workshops Attended (09):

  1. 1 week workshop at Doaba College , Jalandhar

  2. 1 week short term course on "VB.Net" at NITTTR, Chandigarh.

  3. 2-week workshop on Natural Language Processing at IIIT, Hyderabad.

  4. 3-day workshop “Train the Trainer” by Infosys Technologies, Chandigarh.

  5. 11- Day Faculty Enabled Program on Foundation Programme By Infosys Technologies, Chandigarh.

  6. 3-day workshop “Train the Trainer” By Infosys Technologies, Chandigarh.

  7. 3-day workshop By Infosys Technologies, Chandigarh.

  8. 3- Day Faculty Enabled Program on Soft Skills By Infosys Technologies, Chandigarh.

  9. 2-Day workshop on SPSS at Thapar University, Patiala


Papers Reviewed:

  1. Two Papers reviewed for JETWI Journal

  2. Four papers reviewed for IJCSI Journal

  3. One Paper reviewed for IJLIS Journal


Papers Published in Journals (11):


  1. Rajesh Sharma, Vishal Goyal,”Survey of Name recognition Systems for different languages”, PCTE Journal of Computer Sciences, Vol. 6(2),July-December 2009, pp.32-45.

  2. Karuna Jindal, Vishal Goyal, “Development of Improved Algorithm for automatic word alignment for Hindi-PunjabiParallel Corpus”, PCTE Journal of Computer Sciences, Vol. 6(2),July-December 2009, pp.150-156.

  3. Vishal Goyal, G S Lehal, “Advances in Machine Translation Systems”, Language In India, Volume 9, November 2009 Issue, pp. 138-150(2009)

  4. Vishal Goyal, G.S.Lehal, “Web Based Hindi to Punjabi Machine Translation System”, May 2010 Issue, JETWI.

  5. Vishal Goyal, G.S.Lehal, “Evaluation of Hindi to Punjabi Machine Translation System”, IJCSI International Journal of Computer Science Issues, Vol. 4, No. 1, 2009, p.p 36-39.

  6. Priyanka Gupta, Vishal Goyal, “Implementation of Rule Based Algorithm for Sandhi-Vicheda Of Compound Hindi Words” IJCSI, Volume 3, August 2009,p.p 45-49.

  7. Vishal Goyal, Lakhbir Singh, "A Hybrid Word Alignment Approach for Hindi-Punjabi Parallel Text", PCTE Journal of Computer Sciences, January-June 2009,Vol 6 Issue 1

  8. V Goyal and G S Lehal, “A Machine Transliteration System for Machine Translation System : An Application on Hindi-Punjabi Language Pair”, Atti Della Fondazione Giorgio Ronchi (Italy) (2009), Volume LXIV, No. 1, pp. 27-35 (2009)

  9. Vishal Goyal, Gurpreet Singh Lehal, “Comparative Study of Hindi and Punjabi Language Scripts”, p.p 67-82, Napalese Linguistics, Journal of the Linguistics Society of Nepal, Volume 23, November, 2008

  10. V. Goyal and G. S. Lehal, "Hindi Morphological Analyzer and Generator", Proceedings First International Conference on Emerging Trends in Engineering and Technology, Nagpur, G.H.Raisoni College of Engineering, Nagpur, July16-19, 2008, pp. 1156-1159, IEEE Computer Society Press, California, USA (2008)

  11. Vishal Goyal, Gurdarshan Singh, “Algorithm for Automatic alignment of sentences in Hindi Punjabi parallel Corpus”, Journal of Computer Science, Coimbatore, 2005.


Invited Talks as Expert (17):


  1. Handled one Full Day Sessions and Practical Lab Session at the workshop on NLP organized by CIET, Rajpura during 21-23rd Dec,2009.

  2. Baba Farid College, Bhatinda on NLP during 27 Nov,2009.

  3. B. D. Arya Girls College, Jalandhar Cantt on “ NLP: A new research area to explore” during 09-11-2009 Before noon.

  4. D.A.V. College, Jalandhar City on “Scope of NLP for M.Sc.(CS) Students” during 09-11-2009 After noon.

  5. Doaba College, Jalandhar City on “Hindi to Punjabi Machine Translation System” during 10-11-2009 Before noon.

  6. Punjabi University Neighbourhood Campus, Rampura Phool on DBMS

  7. Rural Development Center for BDOs, Nabha (Three Times)

  8. Guru Nanak Dev University Regional Campus, Mukandpur on NLP

  9. Baba Gulam Shah Badshah University, Rajouri, J &K on TOC

  10. HMV, Jalandhar through Video Conferencing from Patiala Reliance Center on Research areas in Computer Science

  11. Baba Gulam Shah Badshah University, Rajouri, J &K on Mobile Computing.

  12. Desh Bhaghat Institute of Management and I.T., Mandi Gobindgarh on TOC during 15th Nov, 2009.

  13. Mata Gujri College, Fategarh Sahib on TOC during 4th Nov., 2009.

  14. Doaba College, Jalandhar on NLP during 23rd November 2008.

  15. Chaired the Session at National Conference ISAN during 19-20 June 2009 organized by Chitkara Institute of Engineering and Technology, Rajpura.

  16. Presented Demonstration for Hindi-Punjabi Machine Translation System and delivered talk on How to write research paper during AICTE Sponsored Staff Development Programme during 11 June 2009 to 25th June 2009 organized by DCS, BGSBU, Rajouri, J&K

  17. Presented Demonstration for Hindi-Punjabi Machine Translation System and invited as panelist for discussing integration of FP in Curriculums at “Deep Drive Faculty Development Programme” during 23-25th June, 2009 organized by Infosys Technologies at Chitkara Campus, Sector 25, Chandigarh.


Research projects Guided (35):

  1. M.Tech.:

Completed – 17

In Progress – 04

2. M.Phil. (CS):

Completed: 18


Papers Presented at International Conferences (11):

  1. Vishal Goyal, Rajesh Mahajan, The Impact of Globalization on Child Labour, International Conference on Human Rights in the age of globalization, India, Nov. 19-21, 2005,183

  2. Vikram Singh, Vishal Goyal, Sapna Mehta, “Aspects of Information Security – A Multi Layered Approach, Challenges in Networking and Future of e-Commerce”, India, April 09-10,2005,144-151

  3. Vikram Singh, Vishal Goyal, Sapna Mehta, “Mining E-Commerce Data, Challenges in Networking and Future of e-Commerce”, India, April 09-10,2005,286-293

  4. Vishal Goyal, Vinay Chopra, Rajesh Mahajan, “Effective Factors for retaining talent in IT and ITes Sector – A Survey”, International Conference on Services Management, India, March 11-12, 2005, 544-554

  5. Vishal Goyal, Kamaljit Kaur, Vikram Sharma, “Segmentation of Hindi Character Recognition System”, ICCII -2005, India, Nov. 12,2005,94-96

  6. Vishal Goyal, G.S.Lehal, “Hindi to Punjabi Machine translation System using Direct Approach” , International Conference on Trends in Information Sciences and Computing, organized by SATHYABAMA UNIVERSITY
    Jeppiaar Nagar, Chennai -119

  7. Priyanka Gupta, Rajni Bansal, Vishal Goyal, Fully Automatic General Purpose High Quality Machine Translation System (FGH-MT) – Is it a reality?, ICACCT 2007, APIIT, Panipat.

  8. Charankanwal Singh Sodhi, Vishal Goyal, Shalu Jindal, “The Role of ICT in Distance Learning”, ICACCT 2007, APIIT, Panipat.

  9. Vishal Goyal, Gurpreet Singh Lehal, “ Hindi Morphological Analyzer and generator”, ICETET-08, G.H.Raisoni College of Engineering, Nagpur, INDIA, 16-19th July, 2008.

  10. Lakhbir Singh Garcha, Vishal Goyal, “Automatic Aligning of Hindi Punjabi Parallel Corpus at Word Level”, IACC-09, Thapar University, Patiala, 6-7 March 2009.

  11. Lakhbir Singh Garcha, Vishal Goyal, “A Hybrid Word Alignment Approach for Hindi-Punjabi Parallel Text”, DCIT-09, PCTE, Ludhiana,22nd May 2009.


Papers Presented at National Conferences (21) :


  1. Vishal Goyal, Vinay Chopra, Mukesh Dhingra, Open Source Operating System for Embedded Systems, U.G.C. Sponsored National Seminar on Embedded Systems, India, Jan 24-25, 2005, 24-29

  2. Vikram Singh, Vishal Goyal, P.K.Suri, E-Governance Framework in Haryana, RAFIT 2005, India, March 2-3,2005, 210

  3. Vikram Singh,Vishal Goyal,Sapna Mehta, Impact of Internet on Business, RAFIT 2005, India, March 2-3,2005,215

  4. Vikram Singh,Vishal Goyal,Rasheed Khan, Misconceptions about E-Governance in India, RAFIT 2005, India, March 2-3,2005,219

  5. Vishal Goyal, Dheeraj Jain, DNA Computing – An Emerging Trend, UGC Sponsored National Seminar on Recent Technologies in IT, India, 29 Sept.,2005, 86

  6. Vishal Goyal (Young Scientist Award Winner), Computing Xn using DNA Strands, 8th Punjab Science Congress, India, February 7-9,2005, 139

  7. Vishal Goyal, Challenges and Future to online Education, E-Contents on EDUSAT, India, February 4-5 ,2005, Proceedings on CD

  8. Vishal Goyal, KM Approach to E-Governance, Knowledge Management, India, Dec. 4-5 2004, ,95

  9. Vishal Goyal, Ravinder Jindal, Ritu Gupta, Challenges to Online Education, Quest for Excellence in HE, India, November 20,2004,93-107

  10. Vishal Goyal, Vinay Chopra, Sunil Khullar, Application of Quantum Computing in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks, Issues and Trends in Wireless Networks , India, Dec. 17-18, 2004,48

  11. Vishal Goyal, Expert System, Communication and Embedded Systems, India, March 12,2004, 108

  12. Vishal Goyal, Machines, Logic And Quantum Physics, Communication and Embedded Systems , India, March 12,2004, 210

  13. Vishal Goyal, Mamta Verma, Impact of ICT on Education, IT: Pathway for Transformation of Society, India, March 13-14,2004, 461

  14. Vishal Goyal, Sumit Kaushik, LPC: A Speech coding method based on human speech production, Modern Trends in Information and Communication Technology, India, Oct. 20-22,2005,156

  15. Gurdarshan Singh, Vishal Goyal, Gurpreet Singh Josan, Survey of various sentence alignment algorithms for Parallel Copora, RAFIT 2007,Department of Computer Science, Punjabi University, Patiala

  16. Vishal Goyal, Dolly Watta, Standarizing Hindi Text, IEEE National Conference on Application of Intelligent Systems, (AIS-2008), Hindu College of Engineering, Sonepat.

  17. Vishal Goyal, Archana Garg, Narinder Kumar, Word Sense Disambiguation, Futuristic Trends in Engineering and Technology organized by Jan Nayak Ch. Devi Lal Memorial College of Engineering, Sirsa.

  18. Aarti Rana, Vishal Goyal, Relative Study of Software Cost Estimating Methods, 11th Punjab Science Congress organized by Thapar University, Patiala.

  19. Vishal Goyal, “Survey of various sentence alignment algorithms for Parallel Corpora” , Souvenir M.M.Modi College, Patiala.

  20. Priyanka Gupta, Vishal Goyal ,“Survey of various POS Taggers: A case study of Hindi language” RAFIT 2009, Punjabi University, Patiala, 9-10 April,2009.

  21. Sukhpal Kaur, Vishal Goyal, “Survey of various Unsupervised Algorithms for automatic generation of Hindi Corpus”, RAFIT 2009, Punjabi University, Patiala, 9-10 April,2009.


Articles Published (3):

  1. “Essentials for On Campus Placements”, Competition Affairs National Level Magazine, April 2008 issue.

  2. “How to excel in taking job”, Competition Affairs National Level Magazine, October 2008 issue.

  3. “Motivation: Your gateway to success”, Competition Affairs National Level Magazine, November 2008 issue.



Books Published:

1. “Introduction to Computer Education”, Twenty First century Publications.