Hello, I'm Jai Prakash Veerla

I'm a CS PhD candidate studying AI + HCI + Bioinformatics at UTA

I work with Dr. Jacob Luber in the MICHI - Health Data Science Lab at UTA.

My research focuses on improving diagnostic decisions of pathologists by building interactive mixed reality experiences assisted by AI utlizing the principles of HCI to visualize Cancer Tumor Microenvironments using digital pathology imaging and Multi-omics data.

Additionally, I also work on explainability, interpretability and trustworthiness of Foundational Models in Healthcare.

I am mentored by Dr. Jacob Luber, Dr. Cesar Torres, Dr. VP Nguyen, and Dr. Jiayi Meng, who are members of my PhD Committee.

Recent News

March 4, 2024
Happy to announce that I have passed my Comprehensive Exam and became a PhD Candidate! 🎉
February 9, 2024
I am happy to inform that my first author submission "Vulnerabilities Unveiled: Adversarially Attacking a Multimodal Vision Langauge Model for Pathology Imaging" has been accepted for presentation at 21st IEEE ISBI 2024 to be held in Athens, Greece on May 27 - 30, 2024!
October 13, 2023
I'm thrilled to share that my project was shortlisted by Apple for Apple Vision Pro developer labs! I'll be travelling to Apple Developer Center at Cupertino, California on October 27, 2023 to learn more about Apple Vision Pro .
July 5, 2023
I am happy to inform that my first author submission “Analyzing Lack of Concordance Between the Proteome and Transcriptome in Paired scRNA-Seq and Multiplexed Spatial Proteomics” has been accepted as Short Paper for oral presentation at 20th IEEE CIBCB 2023 to be held in Eindhoven, The Netherlands on August 29 - 31, 2023!
February 21, 2023
Happy to announce that I have passed my Diagnostic Evaluation! 🎉
August 22, 2022
I'm starting as a PhD Student in Computer Science at The University of Texas at Arlington! ✨

Featured Publications

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Vulnerabilities Unveiled: Adversarially Attacking a Multimodal Vision Language Model for Pathology Imaging

Jai Prakash Veerla* • Poojitha Thota* • Partha Sai Guttikonda • Shirin Nilizadeh • Jacob M. Luber

IEEE ISBI 2024

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SpatialVisVR: An Immersive, Multiplexed Medical Image Viewer With Contextual Similar-Patient Search

Jai Prakash Veerla • Partha Sai Guttikonda • Amir Hajighasemi • Jillur Rahman Saurav • Aarti Darji • Cody T. Reynolds • Mohamed Mohamed • Mohammad S. Nasr • Helen H. Shang • Jacob M. Luber

arXiv

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Analyzing Lack of Concordance Between the Proteome and Transcriptome in Paired scRNA-Seq and Multiplexed Spatial Proteomics

Jai Prakash Veerla • Jillur Rahman Saurav • Michael Robben • Jacob M. Luber

IEEE CIBCB 2023

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Histopathology Slide Indexing and Search: Are We There Yet?

Helen H. Shang* • Mohammad S. Nasr* • Jai Prakash Veerla • Parisa Boodaghi Malidarreh • MD Jillur Rahman Saurav • Amir Hajighasemi • Manfred Huber • Chace Moleta • Jitin Makker • Jacob M. Luber

NEJM AI

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The State of Applying Artificial Intelligence to Tissue Imaging for Cancer Research and Early Detection

Michael Robben • Amir Hajighasemi • Mohammad Sadegh Nasr • Jai Prakash Veerla • Anne M. Alsup • Biraaj Rout • Helen H. Shang • Kelli Fowlds • Parisa Boodaghi Malidarreh • Paul Koomey • MD Jillur Rahman Saurav • Jacob M. Luber

F1000 Research

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Multimodal Pathology Image Search Between H&E Slides and Multiplexed Immunofluorescent Images

Amir Hajighasemi* • MD Jillur Rahman Saurav* • Mohammad S Nasr • Jai Prakash Veerla • Aarti Darji • Parisa Boodaghi Malidarreh • Michael Robben • Helen H. Shang • Jacob M. Luber

arXiv

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