CV

Doctoral Researcher

Boston University, Kolachalama Laboratory

PI: Dr. Vijaya Kolachalama

• Leveraging AI-based frameworks for diagnosis and staging of biological Alzheimer’s disease.
• Developing computer vision models for clinically relevant neuroimaging data representation.
• Applying survival models to proteomics data to identify novel prognostic protein biomarkers.
• Implementing and evaluating large language models for neurology applications.

Data Science Intern

Novartis Biomedical Research, Human Genetics & Targets

Co-mentors: Dr. Sarah Spencer, Dr. Andrea Byrnes, Dr. Victoria Eastham

• Developed a reusable, version-controlled pipeline integrating internal and external multi-omics data for systematic target identification and prioritization.
• Deployed a Dash-based web application with dynamic data tables enabling cross-functional teams to evaluate and prioritize therapeutic targets.

Neuroimaging Analyst

Vanderbilt University, Vanderbilt Memory and Alzheimer's Center

Co-PIs: Dr. Angela Jefferson, Dr. Timothy Hohman

• Examined the relationship between cardiovascular health and brain aging.
• Built preprocessing and analysis pipelines for multimodal neuroimaging and clinical data.

Thesis Research Student

Bryn Mawr College, Grafe Laboratory

PI: Dr. Laura Grafe

• Analyzed behavioral and EEG data to study sex differences in stress-induced sleep impairments in rats.
• Conducted behavioral tasks and used cryosectioning and immunohistochemistry to assess cognitive flexibility and stress resilience.

Undergraduate Research Fellow

University of Pennsylvania, Center for Neuromodulation in Depression and Stress

PI: Dr. Desmond Oathes

• Supported recruitment efforts, collection of psychophysiological data, neuroimaging data quality check and clinical data organization using UNIX shell scripting.
• Conducted statistical analyses on the effects of individualized transcranial magnetic stimulation on mood in major depressive disorder.

PhD

Boston University

Behavioral Neurosciences

Post-Baccalaureate Courses

Calculus I, General Chemistry I & II, Organic Chemistry I & II

Bachelor of Arts

Bryn Mawr College

Psychology & Philosophy, Neuroscience Minor

Clinical & Translation Science Institute Poster Award

Boston University

Awarded first place for poster presentation at the 12th CTSI Symposium.

Departmental Honors in Psychology and Philosophy

Bryn Mawr College

Clinical & Translational Science Award

University of Pennsylvania

Summer Science Research Fellowship

Bryn Mawr College

Agentic memory-augmented retrieval and evidence grounding for medical question-answering tasks

medRxiv (under review)

Jia, S., Bit S., Jasodanand, V. H., Liu, Y., & Kolachalama, V.B. (2025).

An AI-first framework for multimodal data in Alzheimer's disease and related dementias

Alzheimer's & Dementia

Jasodanand, V. H., Bellitti, M., & Kolachalama, V. B. (2025). 21(9), e70719.

AI-driven fusion of multimodal data for Alzheimer's disease biomarker assessment

Nature Communications

Jasodanand, V. H., Kowshik, S. S., Puducheri, S., Romano, M. F., Xu, L., Au, R., & Kolachalama, V. B. (2025). 16(1), 7407.

PodGPT: An audio-augmented large language model for research and education

npj Biomedical Innovations

Jia, S., Bit, S., Searls, E., Lauber, M.V., Fan, P., Wang, W.M., Claus, L.A., Jasodanand, V.H., et al. (2025). 2(1), p.26.

AI-based differential diagnosis of dementia etiologies on multimodal data

Nature Medicine

Xue, C., Kowshik, S. S., Lteif, D., Puducheri, S., Jasodanand, V. H., et al. (2024). 30(10), 2977–2989.

Global amyloid burden enhances network efficiency of tau propagation in the brain

Journal of Alzheimer's Disease

Lauber, M. V., Bellitti, M., Kapadia, K., Jasodanand, V. H., Au, R., & Kolachalama, V. B. (2024).

Sex differences in body temperature and neural power spectra in response to repeated restraint stress

Stress

Ravaglia, I. C., Jasodanand, V., Bhatnagar, S., & Grafe, L. A. (2024). 27(1), 2320780.

Leveraging longitudinal diffusion MRI data to quantify differences in white matter microstructural decline in normal and abnormal aging

Alzheimer's & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring

Archer, D. B., Schilling, K., Shashikumar, N., Jasodanand, V., et al. (2023). 15(4), e12468.

White matter microstructural metrics are sensitively associated with clinical staging in Alzheimer's disease

Alzheimer's & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring

Yang, Y., Schilling, K., Shashikumar, N., Jasodanand, V., et al. (2023). 15(2), e12425.

Sex differences in stress-induced sleep deficits

Stress

Gargiulo, A. T., Jasodanand, V., Luz, S., O’Mara, L., Kubin, L., Ross, R. J., Bhatnagar, S., & Grafe, L. A. (2021). 24(5), 541–550.