Dr. Justin Haldar

Professor

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Biography

Justin Haldar is a Professor in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC) and co-director of the Biomedical Imaging Group. He has a joint appointment in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and is affiliated with the Dornsife Cognitive Neuroscience Imaging Center, the Brain Creativity Institute, and the Dynamic Imaging Science Center. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering in 2004 and 2005 respectively, and his Ph.D. in Electrical Computer Engineering in 2011 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests encompass computational imaging, inverse problems, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), constrained image reconstruction, and parameter estimation. Haldar has been recognized with several honors, including the NSF CAREER Award and multiple IEEE awards. He is currently the Chair of the IEEE Signal Processing Society's Technical Committee on Computational Imaging, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging, and serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. His work aims to overcome the limitations of current MRI technologies and to develop novel methods for data acquisition and image reconstruction, significantly enhancing the ability to extract information from living human subjects.

Research Interests

Experience

Professor

2011-01-01 — Present

University of Southern California • Los Angeles, CA

Professor at the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering with a joint appointment in the Department of Biomedical Engineering.

Awards

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NSF Career Award

2014-01-01
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M. E. Van Valkenburg Graduate Research Award

2011-01-01
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IEEE ISBI Student Paper Award

2010-01-01
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IEEE EMBC Student Paper Competition First-Place Award

2010-01-01
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ISMRM Rabi Young Investigator Award

2009-01-01

Requirements for University of Southern California

Master Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3
TOEFL
Listening
Required:20
Reading
Required:20
Writing
Required:20
Speaking
Required:20
Total
Required:100
GRE General
Prerequisites
Bachelor's degree in engineering or related science
Application Checklist
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  • GRE General scores
  • TOEFL scores (International)
  • Three letters of recommendation
  • Personal Statement
Specialization Notes

Requires general GRE for all graduate degrees.