Lehar Goenka

about

I'm a junior studying biomedical engineering at USC Viterbi with an electrical engineering emphasis.

My path into biomedical engineering started with my brother, whose numerous conditions meant I grew up watching technology try- and often fail- to diagnose or help him.

This desire to help people has carried me through several projects. I was co-founder and CTO of Immuny, a non-invasive allergy-monitoring startup validated through NSF I-CORPS. And most recently for BMES DEBUT I built CHOMP, a pediatric cavity-detection tool for children with special needs.

At Khan Lab I've been working to develop aptamer-based electrochemical biosensors to track neurotransmitters. At SAIL Lab, I build speech-transcription and phonetic-alignment pipelines for pediatric speech data.

Outside of class I'm a student editor at Illumin Magazine, a Design & Make Ambassador for Autodesk, Research Chair for the Associated students of biomedical engineering, course producer for BME 502 (Advanced Studies of the Nervous System), a member of the Ethics Bowl, and a part of the Thematic Options Program, Sidney Harman Polymathic Academy and the Grand Challenges Scholars Program.

headshot
currently last updated aug 2026
reading outer limits of reason by noson s. yanofsky
listening to saturday night by ravyn lenae
working on an initiative to donate the extra food from USC events
writing an analysis of free will in the odyssey vs into the manosphere

skills

design & fabrication

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ CAD (Fusion 360)
๐Ÿ–จ๏ธ 3D printing
๐Ÿ”ง machine shop
๐Ÿงช silicone molding

programming & data

๐Ÿ Python
๐Ÿ“Š MATLAB
โšก C / C++
โšก C / C++
๐Ÿ“ˆ Excel modeling