Bennett A. Landman, director of the Vanderbilt Lab for Immersive AI Translation (VALIANT) and Stevenson Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been elevated to IEEE Fellow by the Board of Directors of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
The award recognizes Landman for contributions to MRI harmonization—the integration of diverse imaging data acquired across multiple sites—and data-driven modeling in medical image processing. Landman leads the Medical‐image Analysis and Statistical Interpretation (MASI) lab at Vanderbilt.
Landman is a preeminent scholar who holds joint appointments in computer science, biomedical engineering, radiology and radiological sciences, psychiatry and behavioral sciences, biomedical informatics, and neurology. In addition to medical image analysis, his research interests include neuroimaging, body imaging, informatics, and machine learning.
Landman founded the Vanderbilt University Institute of Image Science’s (VUIIS) Center for Computational Imaging and serves as principal scientist of the Vanderbilt University Medical Center radiology research archive, ImageVU, with 1+ billion images.
Landman has received grant funding from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Defense, and industry support. He is highly collaborative with 340+ co-authors across disciplines, career stages and institutions, resulting in 450+ peer-reviewed publications and 24,000+ citations.
He has been elected a fellow of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. Landman is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Medical Imaging (JMI) and on the editorial boards of the IEEE Transactions of Medical Imaging (2015-) and SIIM Journal of Digital Imaging.
Landman earned a bachelor of science and master of engineering in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a doctorate in biomedical engineering from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He joined the Vanderbilt engineering faculty in 2010. In 2021, when the School of Engineering created two new departments from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Landman was named chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Contact: brenda.ellis@vanderbilt.edu