Sohum A. Sohoni

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Faculty Profile Overview

Name: Sohum Ashok Sohoni

Designation: Professor of Practice

Department: Computer Engineering

Qualifications

  • Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, 2004
  • B.E. in Electrical Engineering, Government College of Engineering, Pune (COEP), India, 1998

Overview of Profile

After graduating from COEP in 1998, Sohum Ashok Sohoni moved to the United States to pursue a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering. He has served for over 20 years in various academic positions at three distinct universities in the United States. During this time, he also volunteered for a decade with a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the engineering education ecosystem in India. After returning to India, he served as the Director of an engineering college in Hyderabad and is currently working as a consultant in higher education with organizations in India and abroad.

Professional Beliefs

He believes that most people aim to give their best, which encourages him to give people the benefit of the doubt and provide second chances. He believes in the power of a growth mindset and that people can learn and master new skills with time and effort. He emphasizes making the most of growth opportunities and believes that hard work never goes to waste. Even when a project fails in the short term, the experience gained contributes to long-term growth. He believes that leaders should create the right culture and serve as role models for the qualities needed to sustain it.

Strengths

His strengths include sincerity, honesty, active listening, patience, and perseverance. He has consistently demonstrated the ability to learn on the job, both in leadership roles and while transitioning from computer engineering subject expertise to teaching software engineering courses involving unfamiliar programming languages and paradigms. He communicates clearly, builds positive and lasting relationships, and values mutual respect in professional and personal interactions.

Leadership Style

He believes in consensus building, empowering people, and providing autonomy and agency. In leadership roles as Editor-in-Chief of a journal, Program Director, and institutional Director, he has emphasized listening to team members' opinions and suggestions and guiding discussions toward consensus on major decisions.

Forefront Areas of Research

  • Computer Architecture
  • Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

Contact Details

Email: soham.sohoni@mitaoe.ac.in

Contact Number: 020-30253500

Professional Experience

Leadership Experience

  • Director, Hyderabad Institute of Technology and Management (HITAM), India, January 2025–January 2026.
  • Program Director, Software Engineering, Milwaukee School of Engineering, USA, September 2020–December 2024.
  • Associate Director, Indo-Universal Collaboration for Engineering Education (IUCEE), January 2017–December 2021.
  • Member of the Board of Directors, Indo-Universal Collaboration for Engineering Education Inc. (USA), 2021–present.
  • Governing Board Member, Research in Engineering Education Network, 2019–2023.
  • Co-Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Engineering Education Transformations, 2017–2023.
  • Held various leadership and officer roles, including Division Chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Division of the American Society for Engineering Education.

Teaching Experience

  • Professor of Software Engineering, Milwaukee School of Engineering, USA, 2019–2024.
  • Assistant Professor, Arizona State University, USA, 2012–2019.
  • Assistant Professor, Oklahoma State University, USA, 2005–2012.
  • Tutor, University of Cincinnati, USA, 1999–2000.

Industry Experience

  • Research Intern, Intel Microprocessor Research Lab, Santa Clara, April–September 2001.
  • Visiting Researcher, Direct Supply Inc., June–July 2020.

Research Experience

Same as teaching experience, as specified in the supplied profile.

Research Profile

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Awards and Achievements

  • 2016: Best Paper Award, American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Pacific Southwest Section, for "Comparing Cooperative Learning in Online and In-Person Versions of a Microprocessors Course."
  • 2013: Nominated and selected to present his work at the National Academy of Engineering's fifth Frontiers of Engineering Education (FOEE) Symposium.
  • 2012: IETE-CDIL Award for Industry (Best Paper Award) for "A Cross Section of the Issues and Research Activities Related to Both Information Security and Cloud Computing."
  • 2012: OSU IEEE Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor of the Year, awarded by the Oklahoma State University IEEE Student Branch.
  • 2011: Selected for participation in the "Rigorous Research in Engineering Education Workshop," Golden, Colorado, July 2011.
  • 2011: First Place Outstanding Paper Award, American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Midwest Section.
  • 2010: Regents Distinguished Teaching Award, Oklahoma State University.
  • 2010: Second Place Outstanding Paper Award, American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Midwest Section.
  • 2010: Certificate of Excellence as Faculty Advisor, President's Office and Campus Life Leadership Recognition Program, Oklahoma State University.
  • 2009: Halliburton Excellent Young Teacher Award, College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology, Oklahoma State University.
  • 2009: Certificate of Excellence as Faculty Advisor, President's Office and Campus Life Leadership Recognition Program, Oklahoma State University.
  • 2003: University Research Council Graduate Student Summer Fellowship for "Characterizing the Cache Performance of Decision Support Workloads on Workstation Architectures," University of Cincinnati.
  • 2002: University Research Council Graduate Student Summer Fellowship for "An Analysis of the Memory Referencing Behavior of Multimedia Applications," University of Cincinnati.
  • 2000–2004: Research Assistantship, Operating Systems and Computer Architecture Research Laboratory, University of Cincinnati.
  • 1998–2003: University Graduate Scholarship, University of Cincinnati.

Research Publications

A. International Journals

  1. P. Baligar, J. Kittur, G. Joshi, S. Sohoni, "Study of Secondary and Higher Secondary School Syllabi in India to Develop Engineering Thinking." Journal of Engineering Education Transformations, Vol. 37, Issue 2, 2023.
  2. S. Dart, J. Seniuk Cicek, S. Sohoni, "REES AAEE Special Issue in Engineering Education Research Capability Development: Introduction by Guest Editors." Australasian Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 28, Issue 1, pp. 2–7, 2023.
  3. S. Dart, J. S. Cicek, S. Sohoni, "REES/AAEE Special Issue on Engineering Education Research Capability Development: Introduction by Guest Editors." Australasian Journal of Engineering Education, pp. 1–6, July 2023.
  4. K. A. Gary, R. Acuna, A. Mehlhase, R. Heinrichs, S. Sohoni, "Scaling to Meet the Online Demand in Software Engineering." International Journal on Innovations in Online Education, Vol. 4, Issue 1, March 2020.
  5. C. Li, J. M. Acken, S. Sohoni, "Example Security Injections for Hardware Courses." Journal of the Colloquium for Information System Security Education, Vol. 6, Issue 2, November 2019.
  6. J. Holloway, V. Kannan, Y. Zhang, D. M. Chandler, S. Sohoni, "GPU Acceleration of the Most Apparent Distortion Image Quality Assessment Algorithm." Journal of Imaging, Vol. 4, Issue 10, Article 111, October 2018.
  7. S. Sohoni, S. D. Craig, K. Vedula, "A Blueprint for an Ecosystem for Supporting High Quality Education for Engineering." Journal of Engineering Education Transformations, Vol. 30, Issue 4, April 2017.
  8. N. Sehgal, J. Acken, S. Sohoni, "Is the EDA Industry Ready for the Cloud?" IETE Technical Review, Vol. 33, Issue 4, pp. 345–356, 2016.
  9. K. Kearney, R. Damron, S. Sohoni, "Observing Engineering Student Teams from the Organization Behavior Perspective Using Linguistic Analysis of Student Reflections and Focus Group Interviews." Advances in Engineering Education, Vol. 4, Issue 3, pp. 1–29, April 2015.
  10. S. Shah, T. Phan, D. Chandler, S. Sohoni, "Microarchitectural Analysis of Image Quality Assessment Algorithms." Journal of Electronic Imaging, Vol. 23, Issue 1, Article 013030, January 2014.
  11. W. Mulia, N. Sehgal, S. Sohoni, J. Acken, D. Fritz, L. Stanberry, "Cloud Workload Characterization." IETE Technical Review, Vol. 30, Issue 5, pp. 382–397, October 2013.
  12. W. Mulia, D. Fritz, S. Sohoni, K. Kearney, M. Mwavita, "PLP: A Community Driven Open Source Platform for Computer Engineering Education." International Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 29, Issue 1, pp. 215–229, January 2013.
  13. S. Sohoni, D. French, Y. Cho, "A Survey to Capture Needs Assessment for GTA Training." Advances in Engineering Education, Vol. 3, Issue 3, January 2013.
  14. N. Sehgal, S. Sohoni, Y. Xiong, D. Fritz, W. Mulia, J. Acken, "A Cross Section of the Issues and Research Activities Related to Both Information Security and Cloud Computing." IETE Technical Review, Vol. 28, Issue 4, pp. 279–291, August 2011.
  15. Z. Xu, S. Sohoni, R. Min, Y. Hu, "An Analysis of Memory System Performance of Multimedia Applications." IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 53, No. 1, pp. 20–38, January 2004.

B. Books / Book Chapters

  1. X. Du, L. Smith, K. K. Naji, S. Sohoni, A. Guerra, "Academic Leadership for All: A Systems Thinking Approach to Pedagogical Development and Professional Learning for Engineering." Springer Nature, Switzerland, 2024.

C. International Conferences

  1. S. Sohoni, S. R. Desai, "Transforming the Journal of Engineering Education Transformations." Research in Engineering Education Symposium (REES), January 2024.
  2. T. Hattingh, S. Sohoni, A. Agrawal, S. Desai, S. Joshi, "An Exploration of Capacity Development of Journal Reviewers Through a Mentored Reviewer Program." Research in Engineering Education Symposium (REES), December 2021.
  3. S. Sohoni, P. Nagabhushan, "An Introductory Course on Research in Engineering Education—An Experiment in Training Faculty in India." IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), Uppsala, Sweden, October 2020.
  4. K. A. Gary, D. Sandy, S. Sohoni, "Impact of a Virtualized IoT Environment on Online Students." IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), Uppsala, Sweden, October 2020.
  5. J. Kittur, S. Sohoni, P. Baligar, G. Joshi, "An Initial Classification of Engineering Education Research Papers in India." International Conference on Transformations in Engineering Education (ICTIEE), Hyderabad, India, January 2019.
  6. H. B. M. Kadekar, S. Sohoni, S. D. Craig, "Effects of Error Messages on Students' Ability to Understand and Fix Programming Errors in Assembly Language Programming." IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), San Jose, California, October 2018.
  7. C. Li, J. M. Acken, S. Sohoni, "Example Security Injections for Hardware Courses." Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education, New Orleans, Louisiana, June 2018.
  8. K. A. Gary, S. Sohoni, T. Lindquist, "It's Not What You Think: Lessons Learned Developing an Online Software Engineering Program." IEEE Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training, Savannah, Georgia, November 2017.
  9. C. Mar, S. Sohoni, S. D. Craig, "Can Embedding Questions in Instructional Videos Improve Students' Programming Abilities?" IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), Indianapolis, Indiana, October 2017.
  10. S. Sohoni, S. D. Craig, S. Lu, "Impact of Prior Exposure to the PLP Instruction Set Architecture in a Computer Architecture Course." Proceedings of the 48th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, pp. 555–560, Seattle, Washington, March 2017.
  11. A. Yadav, S. Sohoni, D. M. Chandler, "GPGPU Based Implementation of a High Performing No Reference (NR)-IQA Algorithm, BLIINDS-II." Proceedings of the IS&T Electronic Imaging 2017 Symposium, Burlingame, California, January 2017.
  12. V. Kannan, J. Holloway, S. Sohoni, D. M. Chandler, "Microarchitectural Analysis of a GPU Implementation of the Most Apparent Distortion Image Quality Assessment Algorithm." Proceedings of the IS&T Electronic Imaging 2017 Symposium, Burlingame, California, January 2017.
  13. S. Sohoni, S. D. Craig, "Making the Case for Adopting and Evaluating Innovative Pedagogical Techniques in Engineering Classrooms." Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana, June 26–29, 2016. DOI: 10.18260/p.25667.
  14. S. Sohoni, C. Mar, S. D. Craig, "Comparing Cooperative Learning in Online and In-Person Versions of a Microprocessors Course." Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Section Conference, Pomona, California, April 2016.
  15. A. Gaspar, J. Torsella, N. Honken, S. Sohoni, A. Collin, "Differences in the Learning Principles Dominating Student-Student vs. Student-Instructor Interactions While Working on Programming Tasks." Proceedings of the 47th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, pp. 255–260, March 2016.
  16. J. Holloway, V. Kannan, D. M. Chandler, S. Sohoni, "On the Computational Performance of Single-GPU and Multi-GPU CUDA Implementations of the MAD IQA Algorithm." International Workshop on Image Media Quality (IMQA), Nagoya, Japan, March 2016.
  17. S. Sohoni, "Making the Hardware-Software Connection with PLP." Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE '14), ACM, New York, pp. 324, 2014.
  18. S. Sohoni, R. Damron, K. Kearney, "A Platform for Computer Engineering Education." Proceedings of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, pp. 24.87.1–24.87.14, Indianapolis, Indiana, June 15–18, 2014.
  19. R. Damron, S. Sohoni, K. Kearney, Y. Cho, "Impact of PLP on Student Learning: Initial Results." Proceedings of the 2013 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, pp. 23.687.1–23.687.16, Atlanta, Georgia, June 23–26, 2013.
  20. N. Dalal, S. Kak, S. Sohoni, "Rapid Digital Game Creation for Learning Object-Oriented Concepts." Proceedings of the Informing Science & IT Education Conference (InSITE), Montreal, Canada, June 2012.
  21. T. Phan, E. Larson, S. Sohoni, D. Chandler, "Performance-Analysis-Based Acceleration of Image Quality Assessment." Proceedings of the IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation (SSIAI 2012), Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 2012.
  22. S. Sohoni, D. Fritz, W. Mulia, "Transforming a Microprocessors Course Through the Progressive Learning Platform." Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Midwest Section, Russellville, Arkansas, September 2011.
  23. S. Sohoni, D. French, Y. Cho, "Need Assessment for Graduate Teaching Assistant Training: A Survey to Capture Particular Needs at an Institution." Proceedings of the 2011 American Society for Engineering Education National Annual Conference and Exposition, Education Research Methods Division, pp. 22.1097.1–22.1097.13, Vancouver, Canada, June 2011.
  24. D. Fritz, W. Mulia, S. Sohoni, B. Gordon, K. Kearney, M. Mwavita, "The Progressive Learning Platform for Computer Engineering." Proceedings of the 2011 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition, ECE Division, pp. 22.1491.1–22.1491.14, Vancouver, Canada, 2011.
  25. D. Fritz, W. Mulia, S. Sohoni, "The Progressive Learning Platform." Workshop on Computer Architecture Education in conjunction with IEEE HPCA-17, San Antonio, Texas, February 2011.
  26. B. Gordon, S. Sohoni, D. Chandler, "Data Handling Inefficiencies Between CUDA, 3D Rendering, and System Memory." Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC), Atlanta, Georgia, pp. 1–10, December 2010.
  27. Y. Cho, S. Sohoni, D. French, "Need Assessment for Graduate Teaching Assistant Training: Identifying Important but Under-Prepared Roles." Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Midwest Section Annual Conference, Lawrence, Kansas, September 2010.
  28. Y. Xiong, S. Sohoni, "Memory Integrity Verification Speedup Using Separated L2 Hash Cache." Proceedings of Theoretical and Applied Computer Science (TACS), Stillwater, Oklahoma, November 2010.
  29. P. Pathak, S. Sohoni, "Markov Prediction Scheme for Cache Prefetching." Proceedings of Theoretical and Applied Computer Science (TACS), Stillwater, Oklahoma, November 2010.
  30. D. Fritz, A. Millian, S. Sohoni, "Torrents of Streams." Presented at the International Conference on Embedded Systems, Coimbatore, India, July 2010.
  31. D. Fritz, W. Mulia, S. Sohoni, "Quantifying the Cache Filtering Effect for Multimedia Applications in Embedded Systems." Proceedings of Theoretical and Applied Computer Science (TACS), October 2009.
  32. J. E. Stine, J. Chen, I. Castellanos, G. Sundararajan, M. Qayam, P. Kumar, J. Remington, S. Sohoni, "FreePDK v2.0: Transitioning VLSI Education Towards Nanometer Variation-Aware Designs." Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Microelectronic Systems Education, San Francisco, California, pp. 100–103, July 2009.
  33. S. Sohoni, C. D. Shaver, J. M. Acken, D. Mertz, L. E. Nelson, J. Remington, B. Sadr, G. Sundararajan, "Evaluation Criteria for Biometric Based Identity Authentication Systems." International Conference on Sensors, Security, Software and Intelligent Systems, Coimbatore, India, January 2009.
  34. D. Fritz, W. Mulia, S. Sohoni, "Exploring Out of Context Cache Prefetching." International Conference on Sensors, Security, Software and Intelligent Systems, Coimbatore, India, January 2009.
  35. V. Janepally, S. Sohoni, "Fast Encryption and Authentication for Cache-to-Cache Transfers Using GCM-AES." International Conference on Sensors, Security, Software and Intelligent Systems, Coimbatore, India, January 2009.
  36. J. Pitts, P. Teague, S. Sohoni, "Effects of the Team-Based Approach on Individual Learning." Proceedings of the 2007 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, ECE Division, pp. 12.588.1–12.588.9, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2007.
  37. S. Narasimhan, S. Sohoni, Y. Hu, "A Log Based Write-Back Mechanism for Cooperative Caching." Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), Nice, France, April 22–26, 2003, p. 61b.
  38. S. Sohoni, R. Min, Z. Xu, Y. Hu, "A Study of Memory System Performance of Multimedia Applications." Proceedings of ACM SIGMETRICS 2001/PERFORMANCE 2001, Cambridge, Massachusetts, pp. 206–215, June 2001.
  39. S. Sohoni, "March 7th 2017: The Day the Microprocessor Died." National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science, 2007.
  40. S. Sohoni, "Class Project Reflections and Reflection Essays." Arizona State University Field Guide, Consortium to Promote Reflection in Engineering Education (CPREE).

D. National Conferences

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E. Patent Details

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