People

Our team

An interdisciplinary group spanning computer science, neuroscience, bioinformatics, physics, engineering and medicine, working closely with clinicians and collaborators worldwide.

Photos from lab meetings and gatherings over the years are on the Media page.

Principal investigator

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Vijaya B. Kolachalama

Associate Professor of Medicine and Computer Science · Boston University

Founding member of BU's Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences.

Postdoctoral scholars 3

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Chonghua Xue

PhD in Electrical & Computer Engineering

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Yichi Zhang

PhD in Bioinformatics

Graduate & medical students 13

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Shreyas Puducheri

7-year Liberal Arts/Medical Education Program

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Varuna Jasodanand

PhD student in Neuroscience

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Lingyi Xu

PhD student in Computing & Data Sciences

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Anika Walia

MD student at Boston University School of Medicine

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Che Yu Lee

MD-PhD student in Boston University School of Medicine, Bioinformatics

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Osman Berke Guney

PhD student in Electrical & Computer Engineering

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Sahana Kowshik

PhD student in Computing & Data Sciences

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Yi Liu

PhD student in Computing & Data Sciences

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Krish Kapadia

MD student at Boston University School of Medicine

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Shuyue Jia

PhD student in Electrical & Computer Engineering

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Rishi Shah

MD student at Boston University School of Medicine

Research staff 1

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Rustu Erciyes Karakaya

Staff scientist

Undergraduate students 3

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Shlok Chitalia

Undergraduate in Health Science

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Karim Elzokm

Undergraduate in Electrical Engineering

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Thanaisawan Hill

Undergraduate in Biomedical Engineering

Alumni 41

Where our trainees went next (incomplete list).

NameRole in labNext step
Meysam Ahangaran Postdoctoral scholar Assistant Professor at Wentworth Institute of Technology
Akshara Balachandra MD student at Boston University School of Medicine Neurology resident at the Stanford University School of Medicine
Matteo Bellitti Postdoctoral scholar Technical staff at Ab Initio
Gary Chang Postdoctoral scholar Faculty at National Taiwan University
Lindsey Claus MD student at Boston University School of Medicine Vascular surgery resident at the University of Pennsylvania
Rushin Gindra Staff scientist PhD student at TU Munich
Andre Gonzaga Undergraduate student in Computer Engineering Software engineer at Goldman Sachs
Enes Guven IT project manager Program director at Peace Islands Institute, NJ
Megan Heydari Undergraduate student in Electrical and Computer Engineering Systems Engineer at Savant Power
Michalina Jadick Undergraduate student in Neurobiology & Computer Science Clinical Research Coordinator at MGH Gordon Center
Ray Jhun MD student at Boston University School of Medicine Neurology resident at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Prajakta Joshi Postdoctoral Scholar Private Dental Practice
Saemi Jung Undergraduate student in Neuroscience & Computer Science Software engineer at CJ OliveNetworks, Seoul, Korea
Shruti Kannan Masters student in Electrical & Computer Engineering DSP engineer at Bose Corporation
Cody Karjadi Undergraduate in Computer Science Technical Staff at the Framingham Heart Study
Joseph Lai Undergraduate student in Mathematics & Computer Science Software engineer at IMC trading, Chicago, IL
Joyce Lee MD student at Boston University School of Medicine Neurology resident at Boston Medical Center
Benjamin Liang Undergraduate student in Biomedical Engineering Technical solutions engineer at Epic Systems
Christopher Lin Graduate student in Bioinformatics MD student at University of Vermont
Jared Lott Undergraduate student in Biomedical Engineering Analyst at Acsel Health
Matthew Miller MD student at Boston University School of Medicine Radiology resident at Mass General Brigham
Yunruo Ni Undergraduate student in Computer Science Masters student at Carnegie Mellon University
Diya Nijhawan Undergraduate student in Neurobiology Masters student at Boston University School of Medicine
Aubrey Odom Postdoctoral scholar Scientist at Tempus AI
Lisa Park MD student at Boston University School of Medicine Radiology resident at Northwell Health
Qiuyuan Qin Staff scientist PhD student at University of Rochester
Shangran Qiu PhD student in Physics Applied Scientist at Microsoft
Shriya Reddy Undergraduate student in the BA/MD/MBA program General surgery resident at Huntington Hospital
Michael Romano Postdoctoral scholar Radiology resident at the University of California, San Francisco
Ketan Suhaas Saichandran Staff scientist Research scientist at dCortex
Hojoon Seo Undergraduate student in the BA/MD program MD student at Boston University School of Medicine
Krish Shah Undergraduate in Computer Engineering Financial engineer at Clearwater Analytics
Harsh Sharma MS AI student Data/ML engineer at CarbonArc
Tejus Surendran Staff scientist PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University
Abhishek Varshney MS AI student ML engineer at Poshmark
Divya Veerapaneni MD student at Boston University School of Medicine Neurology resident at UT Southwestern Medical Center
Cathy (Yuwei) Wang Undergraduate student in Computer Science Masters student at Northwestern University
J. Diana Zhang Fulbright Scholar, University of New South Wales CEO of Preview Health
Yi Zheng PhD student in Computer Science Deep learning scientist at Thales group
Olivia Zhou MD student at Boston University School of Medicine Resident in Orthopedic Surgery at Stony Brook Medicine
Xiao Zhou PhD student in Computer Science Postdoc at Yale University