Krishnam Goel

About Krishnam Goel

3 patents. 2 companies. 11 research publications.$121K raised. I build medical devices for environments where conventional solutions fail. My first product, FOCUS, is the world\'s first ellipsoidal UV-C field sterilizer, 90 seconds, fits in a backpack,$5K. A USAF Special Operations surgeon called it \"phenomenal — something people need.\" Before that, I wirelessly charged a pacemaker using kitchen sponges and presented at ISEF. I also co-founded Cyris, an AI agent orchestration platform for regulated industries ($100K raised at $2M valuation), and independently trained a 4.78M-parameter brain encoding model on fMRI data. Published researcher at Huntsman Cancer Institute (rare cancer survival analysis, 10 GU/ASCO abstracts), Stanford University (LLM water quality surveillance, PNAS submission), and the International Blast Research Network. Eccles Scholar (1 of 20 from 6,700+). Sterling Scholar for Science ($20K). ACT 35. 4.0 GPA. 12 years of Hindustani classical music.Learn more about me:

Experience

1. Handshake Ai Fellow

   Handshake

   Oct 2025 — Present

   Train and annotate AI models

Education

• Y Combinator

  Summer Startup School 2026, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies

• Sangit Mahabharati

  First Year Classical Music & Singing Degree, Indian Classical Music

• International Baccalaureate

  IB Diploma , 4 HL/2 SL Split

• West High School

  Honors High School Diploma/ IB Diploma Program , Research

• Salt Lake Community College

  Courses, Math/CS

• University of Utah

  Biomedical Engineering BS & Philosophy of Science BS Double Major