Leela Goel
Graduate Research Assistant
Raleigh, North Carolina United States
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Top SchoolLeela Goel is a PhD candidate and Graduate Research Assistant jointly appointed in biomedical engineering at NC State and UNC-Chapel Hill with 11 years of research experience applying ultrasound to imaging, elastography, therapeutics, and tissue characterization. She has led multi-institutional, NIH-funded projects—coordinating teams across three universities and clinical stakeholders—to optimize intravascular ultrasound transducers for clot treatment and develop biological models for testing. Her work blends hands-on instrument programming and protocol standardization with grant and IRB writing, resulting in multiple peer-reviewed papers, international presentations, and competitive travel awards. Leela’s background spans wet-lab techniques and biomechanics modeling, giving her a rare combination of experimental, clinical, and engineering fluency. She was an IEEE Nano Paper Competition finalist and a featured maker at UNC’s makerspace, reflecting both technical creativity and science communication strengths.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High School, International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma, High School, International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma at Needham B. Broughton High SchoolDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biomedical/Medical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biomedical/Medical Engineering at North Carolina State UniversityBachelor's Degree, Engineering, Concentration Biomedical Engineering, Summa Cum Laude, Bachelor's Degree, Engineering, Concentration Biomedical Engineering, Summa Cum Laude at East Carolina University
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Github Skills (9)
figure6
dicom6
probability-density6
matlab6
histogram6
image-processing6
tracking-algorithm3
python2
computer-vision2
Github contributions (2)
plaingeekspeak/Image-Processing
Dec 2014 - Apr 2015
Contributions:20 commits, 1 PR, 17 pushes in 4 months
pythoncomputer-visiontrackingspeckleimage-processing
plaingeekspeak/Image-Averaging
Jun 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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