Vijaya Kolachalama is an Associate Professor of Medicine & Computer Science at Boston University. He is also one of the founding members of the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences at BU. Before joining BU, he was a Principal Member of Technical Staff at Draper Laboratory and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Edelman Laboratory at MIT, where he also served as an ORISE Fellow at the US Food & Drug Administration.
His laboratory develops methods at the intersection of AI and human health, focusing on biomedical machine vision, multimodal representation learning, domain generalization, and generalist AI principles to create software frameworks that assist clinical practitioners in real-world settings. His research is supported by grants from the American Heart Association, National Institutes of Health, the Karen Toffler Charitable Trust, Gates Ventures, Artificial Intelligence and Technology Collaboratories at NIA, and Johnson & Johnson Enterprise Innovation.
Dr. Kolachalama is a Senior Member of IEEE and a Fellow of the American Heart Association, actively working with industry and investment communities to translate software technologies to the clinic.