Tarun Goswami is the equity advisor for College of Engineering and Computer Science at WSU. As equity advisor, Dr. Goswami facilitates bias-free faculty searches; reviews annual scorecard data for his college, alerting the department chair and/or dean of inequities based on salary, space and professional development; and implements equity programming aligned with the unique diversity needs of his unit.

Dr. Goswami holds a joint appointment at the institution, serving as associate professor of Biomedical, Industrial and Human Factors Engineering, and of Orthopaedic Surgery, Sports Medicine, and Rehabilitation. Dr. Goswami leads a large group of students comprising post doctoral fellows, orthopaedic residents, engineering Ph.D., M.S., B.S. students, and medical students. In his research group, the gender equity is highly visible and far exceeds the national average—nearly 50% of his engineering Ph.D. students are women.

Prior to joining WSU, Dr. Goswami was the chair of the mechanical engineering department at Ohio Northern University and played a key role in the hiring of women faculty members there. Dr. Goswami has diverse research interests in orthopaedic biomechanics, biomaterials, medical devices, pre-term birth issues (which relates to women) and developing new bio-markers to predict various medical conditions. He has active grants from U.S. Air Force and Army and has published more than 75 articles in archival journals.