Vijaya Kolachalama, PhD

Vijaya Kolachalama is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Computer Science at Boston University. His work focuses on developing advanced machine learning and image processing algorithms and designing software technologies that have diagnostic relevance. He is also the course director and primary instructor of Machine Learning for Biomedical Applications, taught within the Graduate Medical Sciences program at Boston University School of Medicine. He is also a Founding Member of the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences at Boston University.

His group leverages novel image processing and machine learning frameworks for digital pathology analysis and biomarker development, with current projects focused within the cardiovascular, renal and cancer domains. His group also focuses on the fusion of biophysical computational modeling and machine learning to efficiently quantify the mechanisms of endovascular therapies.

Dr. Kolachalama has received the following awards: Postgraduate student fellowship from the School of Engineering Sciences at the University of Southampton, Young Researcher Fellowship from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ORISE Fellowship from the United States Food and Drug Administration, Junior Faculty Fellow Award from the Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering, Boston University, Travel Awards from the NIH, and Research Awards from Boston University’s Clinical and Translational Institute, Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering and the Institute for Health System Innovation & Policy. Dr. Kolachalama is a Fellow of the American Heart Association.

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