[10] Goyal is one of the leading scientists worldwide in the field of advanced electronic and energy materials including High Temperature Superconductors.
Goyal was recruited to SUNY-Buffalo following an international search[4] as founding director of the RENEW Institute and as SUNY Empire Innovation Professor in January 2015.
[9] He works with the development of clean energy technologies, and in the field of electronic devices such as superconductors and photovoltaics.
His research has contributed to the development of single crystal like behaviour in long lengths of superconducting materials, and of wires that allow high-temperature superconductors to allow very high performance to be obtained in a cost-effective manner.
He has also made significant contributions to the fields of texture and grain boundary network control and to other electronic materials such as photovoltaics.
In 2018, he was elected Member of the National Academy of Engineering,[19] USA for “For materials science advances and contributions enabling commercialization of high-temperature superconducting materials.” In 2014, he was elected Member of the National Academy of Inventors, USA for “having demonstrated a highly prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development and the welfare of society.” In 2011, Goyal received the inaugural E. O. Lawrence Award for Energy Science and Innovation.
[22] Goyal's award cites his "pioneering research and transformative contributions to the field of applied high temperature superconductivity, including fundamental materials science advances and technical innovations enabling large-scale applications of these novel materials".
Goyal was invited by the Energy Secretary to give a special lecture associated with this award at USDOE.
Other recipients include Elon Musk (2007),[30] Dean Kamen (2006)[31] and Google's Larry Page (2012).
He is also the Founder, President & CEO of TexMat LLC, a Delaware-based intellectual property holding and consulting company.