Principal Investigator

Vijaya B. Kolachalama

Associate Professor


Postdoctoral scholars

Michael Romano

Postdoctoral scholar

Meysam Ahangaran

Postdoctoral scholar


Graduate students

Chonghua Xue

PhD student

Matthew Miller

MD student

Diala Lteif

PhD student


Yi Zheng

PhD student

Lindsey Claus

MD student


Joyce Lee

MD student


Caitlin Newman

PhD student


Yichi Zhang

PhD student

Akshara Balachandra

MD student

Meagan Lauber

PhD student


Lingyi Xu

PhD student


Olivia Zhou

MD student


Anika Walia

MD student



Research staff

Tejus Surendran

Staff scientist


Sahana Kowshik

Research Fellow



Undergraduate students

Shreyas Puducheri

7-year Liberal Arts/Medical Education Program



Visiting scholars

Prajakta Joshi

Resident at Boston University Henry Goldman School of Dental Medicine

Cody Karjadi

Technical program manager at the Framingham heart study

Diana Zhang

Fulbright Scholar


Alumni (Incomplete list)

Shangran Qiu
PhD student in Physics
Next step: Applied Scientist at Microsoft Inc.

Michalina Jadick
Undergraduate student in Neurobiology & Computer Science
Next step: Clinical Research Coordinator at MGH Gordon Center

Diya Nijhawan
Undergraduate student in Neurobiology
Next step: Masters (MAMS) student at Boston University School of Medicine

Ray Jhun
MD student at Boston University School of Medicine
Next step: Neurology resident at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Xiao Zhou
PhD student in Computer Science
Next step: Postdoc at Yale University

Rushin Gindra
Staff scientist
Next step: PhD student at TU Munich

Yunruo Ni
Undergraduate student in Computer Science
Next step: Masters student at Carnegie Mellon University

Cathy (Yuwei) Wang
Undergraduate student in Computer Science
Next step: Masters student at Northwestern University

Joseph Lai
Undergraduate student in Mathematics & Computer Science
Next step: Software engineer at IMC trading, Chicago, IL

Lisa Park
MD student at Boston University School of Medicine
Next step: Radiology resident at Northwell Health, Long Island, NY

Shriya Reddy
Undergraduate student in the BA/MD/MBA program
Next step: General surgery resident at Huntington Hospital

Hojoon Seo
Undergraduate student in the BA/MD program
Next step: MD student at Boston University School of Medicine

Saemi Jung
Undergraduate student in Neuroscience & Computer Science
Next step: Software engineer at CJ OliveNetworks, Seoul, Korea

Jared Lott
Undergraduate student in Biomedical Engineering
Next step: Analyst at Acsel Health, New York, NY

Megan Heydari
Undergraduate student in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Next step: Systems Engineer at Savant Power, San Francisco Bay Area, CA

Benjamin Liang
Undergraduate student in Biomedical Engineering
Next step: Technical solutions engineer at Epic Systems, Madison, WI

Andre Gonzaga
Undergraduate student in Computer Engineering
Next step: Software engineer at Goldman Sachs, New York, NY

Gary Chang
Postdoctoral Associate
Next step: Faculty at National Taiwan University

Christopher Lin
Graduate student in Bioinformatics
Next step: MD student at University of Vermont

Qiuyuan Qin
Staff scientist
Next step: PhD student at University of Rochester

Shruti Kannan
Masters student in Electrical & Computer Engineering
Next step: DSP engineer at Bose Corporation, Boston, MA


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