Chopra, Latest Husky to Earn Distinguished Goldwater Scholarship
Rohan Chopra became the latest Husky to earn the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation. The Goldwater Foundation announced, Friday, March 28, 2025, that 441 students received the competitive scholarships, which honor the top undergraduates in the country pursuing research in STEM fields. The scholarship awards up to $7,500 per year for tuition, books, and room and board.
Goldwater Scholars have gone on to win an impressive array of prestigious awards, becoming National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellows, NSF Graduate Research Fellows, Hertz Fellows, DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellows, Astronaut Scholars, Churchill Scholars, Marshall Scholars, and Rhodes Scholars.
The Goldwater Foundation is a federally endowed agency established by Public Law 99-661 on November 14, 1986. The Scholarship Program honoring Senator Barry Goldwater was designed to identify, encourage, and financially support outstanding undergraduates interested in pursuing research careers in the sciences, engineering, and mathematics. The Goldwater Scholarship is the preeminent undergraduate award of its type in these fields.
Rohan Chopra Khoury’26 Data Science and Biochemistry
Mentors: Alisa Lincoln, Winston Kennedy, Annika Marie Schoene, Suzanne Garverich, Amantia Ametaj, Archana Basu, Houman Javedan, Sameer Antani, Ken Chang, Elizabeth Henske
Home State: Massachusetts
Rohan is a third-year Data Science and Biochemistry major passionate about developing data-driven tools to improve healthcare accessibility and long-term patient outcomes. His research lies at the intersection of public health and artificial intelligence (AI), leveraging machine learning to address critical issues in healthcare, particularly in trauma-related outcomes, imaging-based risk prediction, and patient-centered clinical decision-making. In the era of personalized medicine, Rohan’s work emphasizes the transformative role of AI and data science in identifying risk factors and guiding early interventions to enhance patient care.
In addition to his work at Northeastern, Rohan has conducted research at the National Institutes of Health, Mass General Brigham, the Broad Institute, and the MIT Sloan School of Management, leading and contributing to projects focused on optimizing clinical workflows, developing bias-aware AI applications in medical imaging, and building injury and fall risk prediction models. His interdisciplinary research approach—spanning both on- and off-campus initiatives—has led to multiple peer-reviewed publications and secured numerous grants, including the PEAK Ascent, Summit, and Shout-it-Out awards.
Outside of research, Rohan serves as a home health aide, the course director for a spiritual wellness program for young adults, a Northeastern PreHealth Student Ambassador, and a Khoury College Teaching Assistant. Additionally, he is the incoming President of the national board of the American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin’s Premedical Student Section.
Long-term, Rohan aspires to become a physician-scientist specializing in computational health, dedicated to addressing healthcare’s most pressing challenges through innovation and interdisciplinary collaboration. By integrating clinical practice with impactful AI research, he aims to bridge the gap between patient care and health informatics, translating data into meaningful health solutions to advance healthcare systems that are more equitable, effective, and personalized.