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Atam Dhawan, PhD, distinguished professor and chairman of the electrical and computer engineering department at New Jersey Institute of Technology, works in various research areas including medical imaging and network security. He has invented an optical imaging instrument Nevoscope to obtain various images of skin-lesions for early diagnosis and characterization of skin cancers, particularly malignant melanoma, the most fatal skin cancer.

Dhawan also established the Center for Wireless Networking and Internet Security at NJIT, develops future technologies to protect the Internet from cyber-attacks. The collaborative research center with Princeton University was partially funded by a $2.1 million grant from the New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology.

His research work and patent in the area of data and network security has been licensed for commercialization. Recently, Dr Dhawan has co-authored and co-edited a book, Principles and Advances in Medical Imaging and Image Analysis published by World Scientific Press in 2008.

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.