Publications

Wang, Q., Gupta, V., Cao, A., Singhal, A., Gary, T., & Adunyah, S. E. A Case Study of Enhancing the Data Science Capacity of an RCMI Program at a Historically Black Medical College. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2023, 20(6), 4775.

Ortiz, B. L., Gupta, V., Chong, J. W., Jung, K., & Dallas, T. User Authentication Recognition Process Using Long Short-Term Memory Model. Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, 2022, 6(12), 107.

Ortiz, B. L., Chong, J. W., Gupta, V., Shoushan, M., Jung, K., & Dallas, T. A Biometric Authentication Technique Using Smartphone Fingertip Photoplethysmography Signals. IEEE Sensors Journal, 2022, 22(14), 14237-14249.

Raj, M., Gupta, V., Hoodin, F., Clingan, C., Roslin, C., Yahng, L., & Choi, S. W. Evaluating mobile Health technology use among cancer caregivers in the digital era. Digital Health, 2022, 8, 20552076221109071.

Gupta, V. & Emirrah, S., Detection of Virus Integration Sites in Tumor Genomes Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks, The 2022 world congress in Computer Science & Applied Computing (CSCE), July 25 – 28, 2022, Las Vegas, USA.

Presentations

Detection of Virus Integration Sites in Tumor Genomes Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
The 2022 world congress in Computer Science & Applied Computing (CSCE), July 25 – 28, 2022, Las Vegas, USA.

Analysis of Circular RNA levels in Prostate Cancer using Databases
Presented in RCMI Conference, Bethesda, Maryland, Apr 11 – 14, 2023.

Lab Members

We are currently accepting inquiries for student research. Contact Dr. Gupta at vgupta@mmc.edu for more information.

Grant Support

NSF Expanding AI Innovation through Capacity Building and Partnerships 
Gupta(PI) Co-PIs: Gary, Wallace, Ghosh
10/01/23 – 09/30/25, Amount: $395,703

The goal of this planning award is to build capacity for a potential AI institute at Meharry for doing foundational and use-inspired research on trustworthy AI in medical systems.

NHLBI Supplement to K24HL156896-03  
Gupta (PI), Sung Won Choi (PI)
08/1/23 – 07/31/24,  Amount: $125,253

The goal of this supplement award is to develop high quality mHealth dataset generated from smartphones and wearable sensors.

NIMHD Supplement to RCMI Program in Health Disparities Research
Gupta (PI), Adunyah (PI)
Co-Is: Gary, Nguyen, Pinky, Shillingford, Lockett, Mhlanga
08/1/23 – 05/31/24,  Amount: $218,250

MUREP Precollege Summer Institute (23-MUREP PSI-0005)
Levin (PI), Gupta (Co-I)
05/01/23 – 04/30/28 Amount: $418,448

The key objective of the program is to stimulate curiosity in the cross-cutting field of data science through data science-driven, hands-on, STEM activities deploying real-life application scenarios and industrial grade robotic systems.

NSF MRI (2117282)
Cao (PI), Gupta (Senior personnel)
10/01/2021 – 09/30/2024 Amount: $671,411

The goal of this project is to acquire a high-performance computing (HPC) system for the School of Applied Computational Sciences at Meharry Medical College.

ACS DCRIDG Pilot Award
Adunyah(Contact PI); Gupta(PI)
07/01/2021-06/30/2024 Amount: $45,000

The goal of this project is to detect virus integration sites in tumor genomes for the viruses responsible for cancer using deep learning techniques.

Completed Grant Projects

RCMI Supplement award (3U54MD007586-35S5)
Adunyah (contact PI); Wang (PI); Gupta (Co-I)
09/01/21 – 06/30/23 Amount: $727,500

This administrative supplement is purposed to help the data scientists in the School of Applied Computational Sciences at Meharry Medical College understand and address the computing needs of the RCMI (The Research Centers in Minority Institutions) researchers at Meharry, substantially enhance their data analytics skills, and foster collaborations with them.

Collaborators