Salt Lake City, Utah

Krishnam
Goel

Founder · Researcher · Engineer

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About

At eighteen, I build infrastructure for the places most people overlook — hospital operating rooms running on fax machines, conflict-zone clinics without reliable power, and cancer datasets too small for anyone else to touch. I believe the hardest problems in technology aren't technical; they're the ones trapped behind bureaucracy, broken incentives, and the assumption that resource-constrained means low-priority.

I co-founded Ghostmanager to bring AI agent orchestration to hospitals that still coordinate care through pagers. I built a battery-independent UV-C sterilizer now under evaluation by the US Air Force. At Stanford, I used Amazon reviews to detect water contamination. At Huntsman Cancer Institute, I wrote survival analyses for cancers so rare that most researchers won't touch the data.

I'm an Eccles Scholar, ISEF Finalist, and Hindustani classical vocalist who has performed for audiences of ten thousand. I collect chess sets from countries I visit and have been writing the same fantasy novel since I was seven.

2
Companies Founded
3
Patents Filed
10+
Research Publications
$120K
Capital Raised
35
ACT Score
4.0
GPA
II

Ventures

Ghostmanager

CEO & Co-founder — also known as Cyris

Active · Funded
ORCH Claude GPT-4o Gemini Grok Ollama Abridged

AI agent orchestration infrastructure for hospitals. On-prem, HIPAA-compliant, and built for the reality of healthcare IT — where EHR systems still run on decades-old protocols and clinical staff coordinate through pagers. Our 11-agent demo processes a STEMI cardiac emergency across six foundation models in 16.3 seconds.

3 Live Clinic Pilots
$100K Raised at $2M Val
11 AI Agents
16.3s STEMI Demo Time
Epic + eCW EHR Integrations

Airavata Bioengineering

Founder

Hardware · Defense

A battery-independent UV-C sterilization device — codename FOCUS — designed for conflict zones and resource-constrained clinics where reliable power isn't a given and infection control is life or death. Three patents filed. Currently under evaluation by US Air Force Special Operations medics and two Indian hospitals. Applying for $1.1M in Department of Defense funding.

3 Patents Filed
$20K Raised
$1.1M DoD Funding App
USAF + SOF Under Evaluation
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Research

Stanford University · CRC & CI 2026

Using LLMs to Detect Household Water Contamination from Consumer Reviews

188,019 Amazon and Walmart product reviews. A language model. And a hypothesis: that ordinary consumers unknowingly describe water contamination symptoms in their reviews of filters and pitchers. 2nd author on the paper, co-inventor on Stanford Office of Technology Licensing IP disclosure.

LLM Public Health NLP

Huntsman Cancer Institute · GU Oncology

Rare Cancer Survival Analysis Under Dr. Neeraj Agarwal

When your dataset is 34 patients, every statistical choice matters. At Huntsman's GU oncology division, I applied Python, R, and AI-assisted methods to survival analyses for cancers so rare that most researchers won't engage with the data. Co-authored 10 conference abstracts for GU/ASCO 2026, with a first-author submission to the Kidney Cancer Research Summit.

Oncology Survival Analysis Python/R

International Blast Research Network

EXTRACCT: Shrapnel Care & Surgical Telecom in Conflict Zones

Research on the EXTRACCT project — focused on shrapnel wound care protocols, surgical telecommunications infrastructure in Gaza, and post-blast antibiotic prophylaxis in theaters where standard-of-care assumptions don't hold.

Conflict Medicine Telehealth Global Health

Freyya · Biomedical Engineering

Wireless Charging for Implantable Pelvic Health Monitor

Contracted biomedical engineer leading the wireless charging subsystem for a patented implantable pelvic health monitor. The device enters clinical trials in 2026 — bridging the gap between continuous patient monitoring and the reality of implantable battery constraints.

Implantable Devices Wireless Power Clinical Trials
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Recognition

Scholarship

Eccles Scholar

Selected 1 of 20 from 6,700+ students. Full-ride scholarship at the University of Utah's Eccles School — the institution's most competitive academic award.

State Award · $20,000

Utah Sterling Scholar — Science

State winner. Recognized for research spanning biomedical engineering, cancer informatics, and water quality analysis.

International Competition

ISEF Finalist & Regeneron Biomedical Sciences Award

International Science and Engineering Fair — the world's largest pre-college science competition. Awarded the Regeneron Biomedical Sciences special award.

International Competition

Stockholm Junior Water Prize — National Runners-Up

Awarded by the Swedish Royal Family. Research on water contamination detection methods applied to consumer-grade filtration systems.

Startup

Y Combinator W26 Interview

Invited to interview — top ~7% of global applicants. Ghostmanager was evaluated for YC's Winter 2026 batch.

Hackathon

CalHacks Finalist

UC Berkeley's flagship hackathon. Additionally recognized with the Regeneron Tech Honorable Mention.

AI Fellowship

Handshake / Project Spectra — AI Fellow

$50/hr fellowship. Only non-PhD/Masters member on the team. LLM training and refinement under OpenAI.

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Writing

Utah Foundation

Political & Science Journalism

Policy analysis and science reporting for Utah's oldest nonpartisan research organization. Publications covering education funding, healthcare access, and environmental policy.

Salt Lake Tribune

Investigative & Science Writing

Science and political journalism for Utah's Pulitzer-winning paper of record. Combined readership across both outlets reached 60,000+ views.

Personal · Since Age 7

An Unfinished Fantasy Novel

Still being written. Started at seven years old. A sprawling, recursive world that has grown up alongside its author — part epic, part thought experiment, entirely unfinished.

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Education & Life

University of Utah

Biomedical Engineering & Philosophy of Science

Eccles Scholar · Transferring

Salt Lake Community College

Mathematics & Computer Science

4.0 GPA

West High School, SLC

IB Diploma Programme

4.0 GPA · ACT 35

Music

12+ years of Hindustani classical vocals and harmonium. Performed for audiences of 10,000+. Currently teaches three students.

Collections

International chess sets from Peru, Hong Kong, Egypt, and Kenya. Each set tells a story about how a culture imagines strategy and power.

Service

EMS volunteer with the Utah Fire Department. Indian-American, Hindi native speaker. Born and raised in Salt Lake City.

Obsessions

Bioethics. Resource-constrained engineering. Infrastructure gaps. The places where systems fail the people who need them most.

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Let's build something
that matters.