Sneha D. Goenka

Sneha D. Goenka is an Assistant Professor at Princeton University in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, with associated faculty status in the Computer Science department. She earned her Ph.D. from Stanford University (2024) and dual B.Tech./M.Tech. degrees from IIT Bombay (2017). Her research bridges computer systems architecture and computational genomics to develop accelerated genomic pipelines.

• Education: Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering, Stanford 2024), Dual Degree (IIT Bombay 2017)

Her work focuses on optimizing genomic data processing through hardware-software co-design, achieving speedups in clinical and evolutionary genomics. She led the development of the world's fastest genome diagnosis technique using nanopore sequencing and cloud computing.

Recent publications highlight her expertise in GPU/FPGA acceleration (SegAlign, Darwin-WGA) and ultra-rapid variant detection pipelines. Her research has been published in top venues like Nature Biotechnology, New England Journal of Medicine, and SC/HPCA conferences.

• Scientific Awards:
  • Stanford Centennial TA Award (2024)
  • ACM Heidelberg Laureate Forum Young Researcher (2024)
  • Forbes 30 Under 30 (Science) (2023)
  • NVIDIA Graduate Fellow (2022)
  • Cadence Women in Technology Scholar (2021)

She advises students in her lab and has collaborated with institutions like Stanford Medicine, NVIDIA Research, and D.E. Shaw Research. She also contributed to the Pratham satellite project at IIT Bombay.