Vijaya B. Kolachalama PhD, FAHA

Associate Professor, Computational Biomedicine

Assistant Professor, Computing & Data Sciences Administration

72 East Concord Street | (617) 358-7253
Vijaya Kolachalama
Sections

Computational Biomedicine

Centers

Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute

Evans Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research

Biography

We are a highly interdisciplinary research group, bringing together trainees and scientists from computer science, neuroscience, bioinformatics, physics, computing and data sciences, electrical and computer engineering, and medicine. We actively collaborate with clinicians and domain experts across diverse specialties and institutions globally. This unique convergence of disciplines has enabled us to publish across the full spectrum of scientific inquiry, from top-tier journals like Nature Medicine to premier computer science venues such as the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML). Our mission is to create methods to fit the science and not make science fit the methods. Together, we are advancing impactful science at the intersection of AI and human health.

Education

BS, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India

PhD, University of Southampton, UK

Publications

Published on 10/1/2025

Lteif D, Appapogu D, Bargal SA, Plummer BA, Kolachalama VB. Anatomy-Guided, Modality-Agnostic Segmentation of Neuroimaging Abnormalities. Hum Brain Mapp. 2025 Oct 01; 46(14):e70329. PMID: 40958458.

Published on 9/1/2025

Bellitti M, Lauber MV, Searls E, Lin H, Au R, Kolachalama VB. Practice effects on digital cognitive assessment tools: insights from the defense automated neurobehavioral assessment battery. Alzheimers Dement. 2025 Sep; 21(9):e70644. PMID: 40911708.

Published on 8/11/2025

Jasodanand VH, Kowshik SS, Puducheri S, Romano MF, Xu L, Au R, Kolachalama VB. AI-driven fusion of multimodal data for Alzheimer's disease biomarker assessment. Nat Commun. 2025 Aug 11; 16(1):7407. PMID: 40789853.

Published on 7/25/2025

BaniHani D, Eberth JF, Spinale FG, Chitalia VC, Ferdous J, Kolachalama VB, Shazly T. Towards the Integration of an Anti-Contractile Compound Within Drug-Coated Balloon Therapy. Cardiovasc Eng Technol. 2025 Jul 25. PMID: 40716000.

Published on 7/17/2025

Yang J, Amini S, Hao B, Park S, Karjadi C, San Souci L, Kolachalama VB, Cosentino S, Andersen SL, Au R, Ch Paschalidis I. Developing an accessible dementia assessment tool: Leveraging a residual network, the trail making test, and demographic data. J Alzheimers Dis. 2025 Sep; 107(1):128-145. PMID: 40676898.

Published on 7/7/2025

Jia S, Bit S, Searls E, Lauber MV, Fan P, Wang WM, Claus LA, Jasodanand VH, Veerapaneni D, Au R, Kolachalama VB. PodGPT: an audio-augmented large language model for research and education. NPJ Biomed Innov. 2025; 2(1):26. PMID: 40636401.

Published on 6/12/2025

Xu L, Kefella Y, Zhang Y, Conrad RD, Anderson KE, Krysan K, Liu G, Kane E, Pennycuick A, Janes SM, Reid ME, Burks EJ, Billatos E, Mazzilli SA, Kolachalama VB, Beane JE. Attention-based deep learning for analysis of pathology images and gene expression data in lung squamous premalignant lesions. medRxiv. 2025 Jun 12. PMID: 40585088.

Published on 4/30/2025

Lteif D, Appapogu D, Bargal SA, Plummer BA, Kolachalama VB. Anatomy-guided, modality-agnostic segmentation of neuroimaging abnormalities. medRxiv. 2025 Apr 30. PMID: 40343040.

Published on 4/23/2025

Napoleon MA, Yang X, Zhang Y, Morrissey A, Krinsky S, Lazowski A, Bouchouari H, Brahim AM, Sellinger I, Edwards T, Jose A, Lotfolhzadeh S, Almiron R, Yin W, Siracuse JJ, Francis J, Lokau J, Garbers C, Del Carmen PM, Kolachalama VB, Dries R, Nazarian RM, Nigwekar SU, Chitalia VC. Activation and targetability of TYMP-IL-6-TF signaling in the skin microenvironment in uremic calciphylaxis. Sci Transl Med. 2025 Apr 23; 17(795):eadn5772. PMID: 40267216.

Published on 4/22/2025

Ding H, Madan S, Searls E, McNulty M, Low S, Li Z, Ho K, Rahman S, Igwe A, Popp Z, Hwang PH, De Anda-Duran I, Kolachalama VB, Mez J, Alosco ML, Thomas RJ, Au R, Lin H. Exploring nightly variability and clinical influences on sleep measures: insights from a digital brain health platform. Sleep Med. 2025 Jul; 131:106532. PMID: 40306226.

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