Atam Dhawan, PhD, is a distinguished professor and the associate dean of the Albert Dorman Honors College. As the Associate Dean, Dhawan's responsibilities include advising the junior, senior and accelerated degree program students, graduate program articulation agreements and student placement, undergraduate research, grants and student awards, establishment of honors courses, coordination with the Health and Medical Education Committee and the Faculty Liaison Committee.

From 1985-2000, he held faculty positions in Electrical & Computer Engineering, and Radiology departments at the University of Houston, University of Cincinnati, University of Texas, University of Texas Medical Center (Dallas) and University of Toledo. In July 2000, he joined NJIT where he served as the Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering for eight and half years.

Dhawan has published about 200 research articles in refereed journals, books, and conference proceedings. His current research interests are medical imaging, multi-modality medical image analysis, adaptive learning and pattern recognition. His research work has been funded by NIH, NSF and several industries.

He is a recipient of the Martin Epstein Award (1984), National Institutes of Health FIRST Award (1988), Sigma-Xi Young Investigator Award (1992), University of Cincinnati Faculty Achievement Award (1994) and the prestigious IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Early Career Achievement Award (1995) and the University of Toledo Doermann Distinguished Lecture Award (1999).

He is senior editor of IEEE Transactions of Biomedical Engineering and Editor-In-Charge of IEEE TBME Letters. He has served on many IEEE EMBS professional committees and has delivered Workshops on Intelligent Biomedical Image Analysis in IEEE EMBS International Conferences (1996, 1997, 2000, 2003). He served as the Chair of the “Emerging Technologies Committee” of the IEEE-EMB Society from 1997-99, and 2009-10. He was the Chair of the “New Frontiers in Biomedical Engineering” Symposium at the World Congress 2000 on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering. He was the Conference Chair of the IEEE 28th International Conference of Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society held in New York from August 30 to Sept 3, 2006. He served as American Liaison and EMBS Representative in the Steering Committee of International Symposium of Biomedical Imaging (2009-11). He has chaired numerous NIH review panels. Currently he chairs the NIH Chartered Study Section on Biomedical Computing and Health Informatics.

Dhawan is listed in Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in Engineering, and Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers.

Dhawan obtained his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Roorkee, Roorkee, India. He was a Canadian Commonwealth Fellow at University of Manitoba, where he completed his doctorate in the same field in 1985 with specializations in medical imaging and image analysis. 

Last update: August 1, 2010