Sonwalkar Consulting Group (SCG)

Founder and CEO

Dr. Sonwalkar is regarded as a leading expert in the application of computers in education. He has extensive research and development experience in hypermedia authoring, mobile learning, adaptive learning, and brain-based synaptic learning, advanced scientific visualization, database management systems, and computer simulation.

After receiving doctoral degree from MIT in the area of Molecular Dynamics of Nano-interfaces, he joined MIT as faculty in Mechanical Engineering, but his passion for technology enabled education led him become the founding director of Hypermedia Teaching Facility (Hypermedia Lab) at MIT and later he was appointed as the Principal Educational Architect of MIT.

As the Principal Educational Architect at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dr. Sonwalkar was key architect of the Singapore MIT Alliance (SMA program which is a premier distance education program delivered by MIT at three Universities in Singapore. Dr. Sonwalkar developed several educational technologies and learning management systems in his former role as Director of the Hypermedia Teaching Facility, namely, the MetaMosaic Interface and Hypermedia Instruction and Teaching Environment (HITE) and Stellar Learning Platform which is currently used for over 800 courses at MIT and for courses deployed by Open Knowledge Initiative (OKI).

Dr. Sonwalkar has received numerous National awards for his significant contributions to technology enabled education, such as, 2007 Innovative Excellence Award in Teaching and Learning, 2007 USDLA Award for Outstanding Leadership by an Individual in the Field of Distance Learning, 2007 USDLA Platinum Award for Best Practices for On-line Distance Learning Programming.

Dr. Sonwalkar is a successful serial entrepreneur and has successful launched several companies, such as, InteQ Corporation, IDL Systems, Sonwalkar Consulting Group (SCG) and Synaptic Global Learning (SGL), LLC. He also co-founded LearnQuest Academy of Indian Music and is performing artist for Indian drums and has produced Jazz and Fusion CDs. He is Producer of the Multicultural Music Magazine, a monthly TV magazine for the Public Access Television, USA.

He is author of numerous articles, journal papers and books "Fluid Mechanics Hypercouse", MIT Press, 1996 "Changing the Interface of Education with Revolutionary Learning technology," iUniverse,2004. He also serves on the editorial board of journal "Hypermedia and Multimedia in Education," published by American Association of Computers in Education (AACE).