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Academic Leadership & Service

Teaching, Service, Grants & Talks

Overview of graduate teaching and curricula, invited presentations, NIH-funded research grants, grant review panels, and editorial appointments.

Curriculum & Instruction

Teaching & Curriculum Development

BMSC-GA 4493

Deep Learning in Medicine

Course Director & Instructor (21 hours/year) • Vilcek Institute & Center for Data Science, NYU School of Medicine

Developed and co-directing this graduate and medical curriculum course covering deep learning fundamentals, convolutional neural networks, vision transformers, self-supervised learning, and translational AI applications in clinical medicine.

BMSC-GA 4455

Introduction to Healthcare Artificial Intelligence

Lecturer (2024, 2 hours/year) • NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Foundational lectures on artificial intelligence methodologies for graduate biomedical students in medicine.

Residency Series

AI in Radiology Lecture Series for Residents

Course Co-Director & Lecturer (2020 – 2024) • Department of Radiology, NYU School of Medicine

Developed and co-directed an AI lecture series tailored specifically for clinical radiology residents.

BMSC-GA 4409

Advanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Lecturer (2013 – 2020, 2 hours/year) • Vilcek Institute, NYU School of Medicine

Graduate lectures covering ultra-high field MRI, parallel RF transmission, and RF safety.

Invited Lectures & Presentations

Talks & Presentations (19)

Features slide decks (Google Drive) & recorded lectures (YouTube)
Invited Educational Talk May 2026 ISMRM Annual Meeting, Cape Town, South Africa (Session 104-02-002)

AI for Clinical Diagnosis: Classification Models Using Machine Learning and Deep Learning

Invited Seminar Oct 2025 BMEII Seminar Series, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY

AI-powered Diagnosis and Prognosis of Musculoskeletal Diseases

Invited Talk Aug 2025 University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

AI-Powered Prediction of Musculoskeletal Disease Diagnosis and Progression

Invited Educational Talk May 2025 ISMRM Annual Meeting, Honolulu, Hawai'i (Weekend Course WE-13: Image Analysis: How To Surf the AI Wave)

Estimation/Classification: Fundamentals & Advanced AI Methods

Invited Introductory Talk & Session Chair May 2024 ISMRM Annual Meeting, Singapore

Advancing Clinical Insights: Exploring Extended AI Applications for Diagnosis & Prognosis

Invited Educational Talk May 2024 ISMRM Annual Meeting, Singapore

More Is Better: Multi-Transmit & Multi-Excite Musculoskeletal Imaging

Invited Educational Talk June 2023 ISMRM Annual Meeting, Toronto

AI in MSK Diagnosis, Grading, Quantification & Prediction

Invited Talk Nov 2021 Kütahya Health Sciences University

Muskuloskeletal Sistem ve Artrit Radyolojisinde Derin Öğrenme

Invited Talk Nov 2020 Stanford University Center for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine & Imaging (AIMI)

Prediction of Total Knee Replacement and Diagnosis of Osteoarthritis by Using Deep Learning on Knee Radiographs: Data from the Osteoarthritis Initiative

Invited Talk Nov 2020 ISMRM Turkish Chapter Third Virtual Workshop

High-resolution hip microarchitecture MRI meets deep learning for fracture risk assessment

Invited Talk July 2019 Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Center (CUBRIC), Cardiff, UK

Parallel Transmission for High Spatial Resolution Hip Microarchitecture MRI

Conference Presentation May 2017 ISMRM Annual Meeting, Honolulu

Fracture Risk Assessment using Deep Learning and Hip Microarchitecture MRI

Conference Presentation June 2016 BioEM Annual Meeting, Ghent, Belgium

Sensitivity of magnetic resonance thermal imaging for mmWave exposure assessment

Invited Talk May 2016 ISMRM Joint Study Group Meeting: High Field Systems & Applications / MR Safety, Singapore

Incorporation of a Local Temperature Penalty in Pulse Design

Conference Presentation June 2015 ISMRM Annual Meeting, Toronto

Non-Iterative Parallel Transmission RF Pulse Design with Strict Temperature Constraints

Workshop Presentation Sept 2014 ISMRM Workshop on Safety in MRI: Guidelines, Rationale & Challenges, Washington DC

Multi-Channel Array Safety Using Least Squares Fitting based MR Thermometry

Conference Presentation April 2013 ISMRM Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City

Subject- And Resource-Specific Monitoring and Proactive Management of Parallel RF Transmission

Conference Presentation May 2011 ISMRM Annual Meeting, Montreal

Parallel RF Pulse Design with Subject-Specific Global SAR Supervision

Workshop Presentation Feb 2011 ISMRM Workshop on Ultra-High Field Systems & Applications: 7T & Beyond, Lake Louise

MRI of the Hip at 7T Using RF Shimming with 4-Channel Excitation

Extramural Funding

Research Support & Grants

Completed Grants

R01 NS113782 2020 – 2025

Non-Invasive Radio Frequency Stimulation of Neurons and Networks

NIH / NINDS • Co-Investigator (Effort: 11.6%)

R01 AR074453 2019 – 2024

Deep Learning-Based Imaging Biomarkers for Knee Osteoarthritis

NIH / NIAMS • Principal Investigator (Effort: 60%)

P41 EB017183 2014 – 2024

Center for Advanced Imaging Innovation and Research (CAI²R)

NIH / NIBIB • Co-Investigator (Effort: 5%)

R01 NS102904 2018 – 2024

Quantitative Imaging of Mouse Brain Development

NIH / NINDS • Co-Investigator (Effort: 11.6%)

R01 EB025133 2017 – 2020

Resolving Fine Architectures of Human Gray Matter with Ultra-High-Resolution Diffusion MRI

NIH / NIBIB • Co-Investigator (Effort: 9%)

$102,000 Award 2018

Study of the correlation between power density and temperature increase

Mobile & Wireless Forum IVZW (MWF) • Multi-PI (MPI: Cem M. Deniz & Leeor Alon)

R01 EB011551 2011 – 2016

RF Technology Innovation for Advancing High Field MR

NIH / NIBIB • Co-Investigator (Effort: 30%)

R01 EB002568 2007 – 2016

High-Performance High-Field Parallel MRI

NIH / NIBIB • Postdoctoral Fellow / Researcher (Effort: 68.5%)

Grant Application Review Groups

US Department of Defense (DoD) October 2020

Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) - Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program Arthritis

Ad-hoc Scientific Reviewer

Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) November 2014

The Dutch Technology Foundation STW

Ad-hoc Scientific Reviewer

Institutional Service

Junior Faculty Committee June 2018 – Sept 2021

Department of Radiology, NYU School of Medicine

Role: Member

RF Coil Safety Committee October 2016 – Present

Department of Radiology, NYU School of Medicine

Role: Member

Peer Review & Editorial Service

Editorial Appointments & Verified Peer Review

Web of Science: GWR-1783-2022 ↗

Academic Editor

Scientific Reports (June 2023 – Present)
PLOS ONE (October 2018 – March 2025)

Journal Peer Reviewer

✓ Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (MRM), ISMRM (03.2015 – Present)
✓ NeuroImage (01.2017)
✓ NMR in Biomedicine (01.2017 – Present)
✓ IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (JBHI) (08.2017 – Present)
✓ IEEE Journal on Electromagnetics, RF, and Microwaves in Medicine and Biology (08.2017 – Present)
✓ PLOS ONE (04.2018 – Present)
✓ Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering (12.2018)
✓ Scientific Reports (06.2020 – Present)
✓ Pain Medicine (07.2020 – Present)
Professional Memberships

Affiliations & Standards Committees

International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) 2008 – Present
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2008 – 2019
The Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions Society (MICCAI) 2016 – Present
Bioelectromagnetics Society (BEMS) 2013 – 2019
American National Standards Institute (ANSI) 2015 – 2019
International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) / IEEE TC34 Technical Committee 2013 – 2016

Invited Expert: Wireless Handset SAR Certification – Recommended Practice for Determining Spatial Peak SAR in the Human Body