Agastya Goel Height, Age, Family, Biography

Some Lesser Known Facts About Agastya Goel

• Agastya Goel was born and grew up in California.

• Goel’s father, Ashish Goel, hails from Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. He was the topper of the 1990 IIT-JEE batch. He studied computer science at IIT Kanpur and earned a PhD degree from Stanford University. He is now working as a professor of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University. Earlier, he also worked at Twitter, where he helped to develop the platform’s monetisation model.

• Along with his regular schooling at Henry M. Gunn High School, Agastya has also enrolled at Stanford Online High School to study modern physics and multiverse calculus.

• From 2021 to 2024, Agastya worked as a part-time researcher at Euler Circle in Palo Alto.

• From 2022 to 2024, Agastya has been a United States of America Computer Olympiad (USACO) finalist for three consecutive years.

• In 2022, at the USA Physics Olympiad, he earned an honourable mention, and in 2023, he won the silver medal.

• In 2023, he participated in the elite Mathematical Olympiad Program (MOP). In the same year, Agastya won a gold medal for the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI).

• He also contributed to PRIMES-USA, a research program for high school students who are engaged in advanced mathematical research. In PRIMES-USA, he was selected multiple times for the Honour Choir.

• In 2024, he again won a gold medal for the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI).

• In the same year, Agastya Goel won a gold medal at the programming contest, where he scored 438.7 points out of 600 and ranked number 4 globally.

• Goel co-authored a mathematics paper, which was published in The Australasian Journal of Combinatorics.

• In 2025, Agastya was a part of the United States Physics Team, which scored 5 gold medals at the 2025 International Physics Olympiad (IPhO), Paris and created history.

• Later that day, all the winners, including Agastya Goel, were honoured at the White House, where US President Donald Trump congratulated them personally.

• Michael Kratsios, a senior aide to Trump, shared a photo of the team with the President on X. He wrote,

Today POTUS & WHOSTP47 were proud to welcome the 2025 World Champion USA Physics Team to the White House! These incredible geniuses DOMINATED at the International Physics Olympiad in July, bringing home a record FIVE gold medals, the greatest performance in team history.”

Today @POTUS & @WHOSTP47 were proud to welcome the 2025 World Champion USA Physics Team to the @WhiteHouse!

These incredible geniuses DOMINATED at the International Physics Olympiad in July, bringing home a record FIVE gold medals — the greatest performance in team history. 🇺🇸💪 pic.twitter.com/ZmsNRHcz95

— Director Michael Kratsios (@mkratsios47) September 22, 2025

• In an interview, Goel revealed that his interest in science began during hikes and car rides with his father. Although initially he was interested in computer science; however, his interest towards Physics shifted during the winter of 2023, when he spent weeks immersed in Kevin Zhou’s physics concepts and taking study sessions during a family trip to India.

• He is multilingual in Spanish, English, and Hindi.

• Agastya is passionate about tennis, hiking, music, and stargazing.

• He enjoys playing both guitar and piano.

• He also enjoys singing and actively participates in school and college music fests.

• He also participates in the varsity tennis team, various Competitive Programming Club, and the Board Game Club.

• In his free time, he listens to podcasts on science, economics, and world affairs.

• Agastya Goel enjoys playing frisbee and board games with friends and family.