tES Course Faculty
Dana Brooks
Dana Brooks, PhD
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Northeastern University
Dana H. Brooks is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, founding member of the Signal Processing, Imaging, Reasoning, and Learning (SPIRAL) Group there, and PI of the BioMedical Imaging and Signal Processing Lab, all at Northeastern University. He has been a member of the Northeastern ECE faculty since 1991. He is co-director of the Simulation and Estimation core of the Center for Integrative Biomedical Computing, an NIH/NIGMS P41 Biomedical Technology Research Resource headquartered at University of Utah. Dr. Brooks received the BA in English ('72) from Temple University, and the BSEE ('86), MSEE ('88), and PhD ('91) in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University. He was a visiting professor during 1999-2000 at the Universitat Polit`ecnica de Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain, a visiting investigator at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in fall 2013, and a visiting researcher at Mass General Hospital in spring 2014.
His research interests lie in application of statistical and digital signal and image processing to biomedical signal processing and medical and biological imaging, and in open-source software systems for these applications. His research areas span multiple imaging modalities and application areas including optical imaging across many orders of magnitude,including analysis of in-vivo confocal images for cancer screening and bulk imaging in small animals to detect rare circulating cells, inverse electrocardiography, and fMRI and EEG-based neuroimaging. Of particular recent interest is modeling and optimization of transcranial neuromodulation as well as of stimulation with implanted electrocorticographic (ECoG) electrode arrays. He has supervised or co-supervised 18 Ph.D. theses. He has collaborated with many leading biomedical research instiutions, including Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Mass General Hospital, Children's Hospital Boston, University of Utah, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Renssalear Polytechnic Institute, Technical University of Munich in Germany, Technical University of Catalonia in Spain, Electrical Geodisics Inc., as well colleagues in several departments at Northeastern. He was a founding elected member of the Biomedical Imaging and Signal Processing Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society from 2005 to 2009 and a member of the Steering Committee of the International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging from 2007 to 2009, and is currently on the Steering Committee of the IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. His research has primarily been supported by grants from both the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.