Lalit Goel

Dr. Lalit Goel (born 1960) is a Professor and the Head of the Division of Power Engineering at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE), Nanyang Technological University (NTU). He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and received the IEEE Power Engineering Society (Singapore Chapter)'s Outstanding Engineer Award in 2000. He is also concurrently the Dean of Admissions of the university.

Early life and accolades

Goel is a native of New Delhi, India. These comments were written in feedback forms which asked students to rate their lecturers and give feedback on how their teaching could be improved. Such comments included:

Attending your lectures is like watching Indian Die Hard and Indian Bruce Willis.

On Deepavali in 2006, Goel received an email from an old student who had noticed him on YouTube. He did not take much notice of it, but many such messages followed and he became known even on campus as "the YouTube guy". Although Goel was initially worried that whoever had uploaded the video to YouTube might be disciplined by the school administration, they liked the video and praised him for being entertaining.