ATAM P. DHAWAN, PHD, is Distinguished Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at New Jersey Institute of Technology. He teaches courses in biomedical engineering and has supervised approximately fifty graduate students, including twenty-one PhD students. Dr. Dhawan is a Fellow of the IEEE and the recipient of numerous national and international awards. He has published more than 200 research articles in refereed journals, conference proceedings, and edited books. Dr. Dhawan has chaired numerous study sections and review panels for the National Institutes of Health in biomedical computing and medical imaging and health informatics. His current research interests are medical imaging, multi-modality medical image analysis, multi-grid image reconstruction, wavelets, genetic algorithms, neural networks, adaptive learning, and pattern recognition.