Dr. U. N. Dash

M.A. (Psychology), PhD

Academic Expert

Dr. Dash is a General Mental Ability expert and also an author of 8 books that cater to the needs of graduate and postgraduate students. He is a trained Mathematician and Psychologist and began teaching at the University in 1973. He completed his Doctoral degree in Educational Psychology from the University of Alberta, Canada in 1982 with major focus on Measurement and Statistics. His research paper included "Information Processing in Young Students".

He was a Killam scholar at the University of Alberta for securing the highest GPA among Masters and Doctoral students of his department. In 1982, he was also honoured with ‘Academic Honors Award’ by the Council of India Societies of Edmonton, Canada for securing the highest GPA among all the Indian students in the Alberta University. During his career as a Professor, he has taught courses in the Centre of Advanced Study in Psychology (CASP) at Utkal University, University of Delhi, JNU and a few other Indian universities.

Dr. Priyanka Goswami

Senior Faculty
Mahatma Gandhi International School (MGIS)

Industry Expert

Dr. Priyanka Goswami is a senior faculty associated with MGIS since the last 12 years as CAS (Creativity, Action and Service) co-ordinator; Mathematics, Physics, and BTEC IT programming initiator in the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP) and Middle Years Programme (MYP); and also coordinates K-12 coding programs in the school. She is the examination officer for Cambridge Assessment Admissions pre-interview tests, and also conducts the Mathematics and Computing contests at University of Waterloo, Canada.

She has attended many IB and Cambridge professional development workshops like Mathematics Higher Level (HL), MYP Mathematics, and IGCSE Physics. She gravitated to teaching after the birth of her first child. For the past fifteen years she has been engaged in teaching Physics, Mathematics, and Statistics to Cambridge International Examination and IB students in Ahmedabad.

Her formal education includes a PhD in Physics, and Postdoctoral Fellowships at the University of Maryland, USA, and Max Planck Institute, Germany. She has also held a visiting-scientist position at the CNRS, Observatoire de la Cote d’Azur, Nice, France. She has published a number of papers in international journals and conference proceedings.