Sonal Dekhane
Clinical Professor and Associate Chair of Student Success Department of Computer Information Systems- Education
- Ph.D, Computer Science, Tulane University
- M.S., Computer Science, Louisiana Tech University
- B.E., Electronics Engineering, University of Mumbai
- Biography
Dr. Sonal Dekhane is a Clinical Professor and Associate Chair of Student Success in the CIS department at GSU. She has been an educator and a higher education leader for more than 15 years, teaching a variety of computing courses and serving in administrative roles such as interim dean, assistant dean, and department chair. Her interests are in the areas of pedagogical innovations in computing and broadening participation in computing. She developed numerous sustainable initiatives to broaden participation in computing and to improve computing education, and secured more than $2M in external funding to support these initiatives. For her contributions she received several awards, including WIT Woman of the Year – STEAM Education award, Outstanding Faculty-Student Engagement award, USG Executive Leadership Institute Scholar, etc. Dekhane has also served as a Program Director at the National Science Foundation in the Directorate for STEM Education.