Dana Brooks
Research Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Affiliated Faculty,
Bioengineering
Office
- 511 ISEC
- 617.373.3352
Research Focus
Biomedical signal and image processing; medical imaging; statistical signal processing; inverse problems; electrocardiography; bio-optical imaging; magnetic resonance imaging; transcranial neuromodulation; estimation of protein conformations from Xray scattering; regularization; optimization
Education
- PhD, Northeastern University, 1991
Honors & Awards
- Søren Buus Outstanding Research Award, 2006
Research Overview
Biomedical signal and image processing; medical imaging; statistical signal processing; inverse problems; electrocardiography; bio-optical imaging; magnetic resonance imaging; transcranial neuromodulation; estimation of protein conformations from Xray scattering; regularization; optimization
Research Centers and Institutes
Selected Publications
- L. Feldman Barrett, Z. Khan, J. Dy, D.H. Brooks, Nature of Emotion Categories: Comment on Cowen and Keltner, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 22(2) 2018, 97-99
- S. Guler, M. Dannhauer, B. Roig-Solvas, A. Gkogkidis, R. Macleod, T. Ball, J.G. Ojemann, D.H. Brooks, Computationally Optimized ECoG Stimulation with Local Safety Constraints, NeuroImage, 173, 2018, 35-48
- E. Onuk, J. Badger, Y. Wang, J. Bardhan, Y. Chisht, M. Akcakaya, D Brooks, D. Erdogmus, D Minh, L. Makowski, Effects of Catalytic action and ligand binding on Conformational Ensembles of Adenylate Kinase, Biochemistry, 56(34), 2017, 4559–4567
- K. Kose, M. Gou, O. Yélamos, M. Cordova, A.M. Rossi, K.S. Nehal, E.S. Flores, O. Camps, J. Dy, D.H. Brooks, M, Rajadhyaksha, Automated Video-Mosaicking Approach for Confocal Microscopic Imaging in Vivo: An Approach to Address Challenges in Imaging Living Tissue and Extend Field of View, Scientific Reports, 7, 2017, 10759
- B. Erem, R. Martinez Orellana, D.E. Hyde, J.M. Peters, F.H. Duffy, P. Stovicek, S.K. Warfield, R.S. MacLeod, G. Tadmor, D.H. Brooks, Extensions to a Manifold Learning Framework for Time-Series Analysis on Dynamic Manifolds in Bioelectric Signals, Physical Review E, 93, 2016, 042218
Aug 30, 2018
Understanding Motor Cortical Organization
BioE/ECE Affiliated Faculty Eugene Tunik (PI) and co-PI ECE Professors Deniz Erdogmus and Dana Brooks were awarded a $600K NSF grant, in collaboration with Wasim Malik from MGH, for “Understanding Motor Cortical Organization through Engineering Innovation to TMS-Based Brain Mapping”.
Oct 27, 2016
ECE PhD student Wins ACM Student Research Competition
ECE PhD student Setareh Ariafar won First Place in the ACM Student Research Competition Graduate Level Finals at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference presenting her work on "Network-SVM: Support Vector Machine for Network Data".
May 02, 2016
Faculty and Staff Awards 2016
2016 Faculty and Staff Awards Congratulations to all the winners of the faculty and staff awards, and to everyone for their hard work and dedication during the 2015-2016 academic school year. Faculty Fellow Kaushik Chowdhury, ECE Carol Livermore, MIE Marilyn Minus, MIE Rising Star Staff Award Gabrielle Fiorenza, Co-op Nicole Nightingale, Dean’s Office Outstanding Teachers […]
Oct 01, 2015
Targeting Brain Functions
ECE Professor Dana Brooks awarded a $250K NSF grant as part of a collaborative research effort to determine the "Optimization of Human Cortical Stimulation".
Apr 04, 2013
FY14 TIER 1 Award Recipients
22 COE faculty and affiliates were recipients of FY14 TIER 1 Interdisciplinary Research Seed Grants for 14 different research projects.
May 17, 2012
Mapping Protein Shape Shifting
ECE Professors Lee Makowski, Dana Brooks, and Assistant Professor Deniz Erdogmus have been awarded a $657K NSF grant to determine the "Precise Characterization of Conformational Ensembles". NSF is the only federal agency whose mission includes support for all fields of fundamental science and engineering, except for medical sciences. They are tasked with keeping the United States […]
Apr 06, 2011
FY12 TIER 1 Award Recipients
28 COE faculty and affiliates were recipients of FY12 TIER 1 Interdisciplinary Research Seed Grants for 18 different research projects.
Feb 07, 2011
Brooks and DiMarzio Receive $65K NSF Grant
ECE professor Dana Brooks and associate professor Charles DiMarzio have been awarded a $65K NSF grant to develop a computationally-enhanced optical imaging infrastructure.
May 05, 2009
Image Based Software Solutions
Dana Brooks, professor of ECE, has been investigating a method to use image based modeling software for use in biomedical research.