Aryan K Roghani

Aryan Roghani is a Biomedical Engineering Honors student at the University of Texas at Austin, Class of 2028, pursuing a minor in Entrepreneurship. Raised in Lubbock, Texas, Aryan is a Cockrell Scholarship recipient and a two-time gold medalist representing Team USA at the International Medicine & Disease Olympiad, where he earned an individual first-place global finish in 2024. He serves as R&D Director of Longhorn Neurotech, the largest undergraduate neurotechnology organization in the country with over 200 members, and is an undergraduate researcher in Dr. Hemachandra Reddy’s lab at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, where his work on neurodegenerative disease has produced six peer-reviewed publications thus far, including a first-author review in Ageing Research Reviews. Aryan is also a Perplexity Student Ambassador at UT Austin, where he works to bridge the gap between AI and medicine. After graduation, he plans to eventually found a neurotechnology company focused on treating neurodegenerative disease.