Short Bio
Riccardo Lattanzi is an Associate Professor of Radiology at the New York University (NYU) Grossman School of Medicine and has an affiliate appointment as Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. He is the Director of training of the Center for Advanced Imaging Innovation and Research (CAI2R). He is a faculty member at the NYU Vilcek Institute of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, where he serves as the Director of the biomedical imaging and technology Ph.D. program. He is currently the director of the course Practical Magnetic Resonance Imaging 1.
Riccardo received his Ph.D. in medical and electrical engineering from the Harvard-M.I.T. Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) in 2008, following a Master of Science in electrical engineering and computer science (2006) from M.I.T. and a laurea degree (2000) in electronics engineering from the University of Bologna (Bologna, Italy).
While working as a researcher at the Rizzoli Orthopedic Institutes in Bologna between 2000 and 2003, he was involved in the development of the Hip-Op preoperative planning system for total hip replacement surgery and later responsible for its technical and clinical validation. From September 2002 to March 2003 he was a Fulbright research scholar at the Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery (MRCAS) laboratory at Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA), working on accuracy evaluation of an image-based surgical navigation system for orthopedic surgery. Since 2004 his research focus has shifted to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). For four years he was a research assistant in the MRI unit at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and since 2008 he has worked at the Center for Biomedical Imaging of the NYU School of Medicine. In 2008 he won the I.I. Rabi Young Investigator Award of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), for his theoretical work on the electrodynamics of parallel transmission for MRI.
Riccardo served for three years as President of the Italian student association at M.I.T. and founded the New York Chapter of the Italian Scientists and Scholars in North America Foundation (ISSNAF), for which he currently serves as co-chair. He is a former Aspen Junior Fellow of the Aspen Institute Italia, has been selected for the Young Leaders Program of the Council for the United States and Italy in 2012, is a member of several scientific societies and was elected to the Sigma-Xi research honor society in 2006. He is a regular contributor of the Italian newspaper La Stampa and writes about science and technology for the Italian edition of the magazine Wired.
Curriculum Vitae
Current Academic Positions
09/2016-present Associate Professor of Radiology. New York University Grossman School of Medicine (New York, NY, USA), Department of Radiology.
09/2016-present Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. NYU Tandon School of Engineering (Brooklyn, NY, USA), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
08/2021-present Director of the Biomedical Imaging and Technology PhD program. The Vilcek Institute of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at the New York University Grossman School of Medicine (New York, NY, USA).
09/2014-present Director of Training. CAI2R (New York, NY, USA).
03/2012-present Faculty Member. NYU WIRELESS (Brooklyn, NY, USA).
Previous Employment
01/2011-07/2021 Graduate Advisor for the Biomedical Imaging and Technology PhD program. The Vilcek Institute of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at the New York University Grossman School of Medicine (New York, NY, USA).
09/2011-08/2016 Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. NYU Tandon School of Engineering (Brooklyn, NY, USA), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
01/2010-08/2016 Assistant Professor of Radiology. New York University School of Medicine (New York, NY, USA), Department of Radiology.
10/2008-12/2009 Post-Doctoral Research Fellow. New York University Langone Medical Center (New York, NY, USA), Department of Radiology, Center for Biomedical Imaging.
01/2004-09/2008 Graduate Research Assistant. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Boston, MA, USA), Department of Radiology, MRI research unit.
01/2001-05/2003 Research Scientist. Rizzoli Orthopedic Institutes (Bologna, Italy), Laboratory of Medical Technology.
09/2002-03/2003 Fulbright Research Scholar. Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA, USA), Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery (MRCAS) laboratory.
01/2000-12/2000 Student Research Assistant. Rizzoli Orthopedic Institutes (Bologna, Italy), Laboratory of Medical Technology.
Education
2008 Ph.D. in Medical and Electrical Engineering, Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA, USA). Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST).
2006 M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA, USA). Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS).
2000 Laurea in Electronics Engineering, University of Bologna (Bologna, Italy). Department of Electronics, Computer Sciences and Systems (DEIS).
Teaching Experience
Spring 2012-present Course Director, BMSC-GA 4427 Practical Magnetic Resonance Imaging 1. The Sackler Institute of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at the New York University School of Medicine (New York, NY, USA).
Spring 2012-2016 Instructor, BMSC-GA 4426 Medical Imaging. The Sackler Institute of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at the New York University School of Medicine (New York, NY, USA).
2011-2012 Course Director, Radiology Residency Medical Physics Course, New York University Langone Medical Center (New York, NY, USA).
Spring 2011 Course Director, BMSC-GA 4409 Advanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging. The Sackler Institute of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at the New York University School of Medicine (New York, NY, USA).
Spring 2009, 2010 Lecturer, The Sackler Institute of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at the New York University School of Medicine (New York, USA). Course “Advanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging”, director: Qun Chen, PhD.
Summer 2009 Lecturer, New York University School of Medicine (New York, NY, USA). MD Students’ lectures, director: Joshua Becker, MD.
Awards and Honors
2018. Outstanding Reviewer, Clinical Biomechanics
2018. Outstanding Reviewer, Osteoarthritis and Cartilage
2017. Senior Member, IEEE
2017. Invited to the EU-US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, National Academy of Engineering (60 selected participants)
2016-2017. Dean’s List , New York University School of Medicine
2016. Outstanding Reviewer, Journal of Magnetic Resonance
2016. Outstanding Reviewer, Osteoarthritis and Cartilage
2015-2016. Dean’s List , New York University School of Medicine
2015. European Young Leaders, Friends of Europe and EuropaNova.
2015. NSF CAREER Award
2015. Listed in Marquis Who’s Who in America
2014-2015. Dean’s List , New York University School of Medicine
2014. PrimiDieci Under 40, honoring the ten most distinguished Italian and Italian-American in the USA
2013. Testimonial, Marche is Good project
2013-present. Distinguished Reviewer, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
2011. Young Leaders Program, Council for the United States and Italy
2009. Full scholarship to participate to The Aspen Seminar, the Aspen Institute
2008. ISMRM I.I. Rabi Young Investigator Award
2008. Aspen Junior Fellow, Aspen Institute Italia.
2006. Sigma Xi scientific research honor society.
2006, 2008. ISMRM educational stipend.
2003. Harvard-MIT division of Health, Sciences and Technology fellowship.
2002-2003. Fulbright research scholarship.
2001-2002. Spinner research scholarship (sponsored by the European Social Fund).
2001. First prize on abstract competition at BIONOVA 2001 (2nd conference on biotechnologies and bioengineering. 28 November-1 December 2001, Padova, Italy).
Professional Societies and Organizations
International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM)
- Member (2005-present)
- Annual Meeting Program Committee (2017-2020)
IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS)
- Member (2000-2017)
- Senior Member (2017-present)
Sigma Xi
- Member (2006-present)
Italian Scientists and Scholars of North America Foundation (ISSNAF)
- Member (2007-present)
- Chairman, chapters committee (2010)
- Chairman and Co-Founder (2010), Co-Chairman (2013-present), New York Chapter
- Co-Chairman, Medical Imaging Science Chapter (2013-present)
Aspen Institute Italia
- Aspen Junior Fellow (2008-2010)
- Italian Talent Abroad Community (2009-present)
- Former AJF Network (2010-2020)
Professional Activities
National Institutes of Health (NIH):
- Early Career Reviewer (ECR) program, Center for Scientific Review (2014-2016)
- Ad-Hoc Member, Clinical Translational Imaging Science (CTIS) Study Section (2019,2020)
- Ad-Hoc Member, High End Instrumentation (SBIB-H31) Study Section (2019)
- Ad-Hoc Member, Imaging Technology Development (ITD) Study Section (2020,2021)
Editorial board membership:
- Frontiers in Biomedical Physics (review editorial board, 2013-present)
Peer review of scientific manuscripts for:
- Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
- Clinical Biomechanics
- IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
- NMR in Biomedicine
- Journal of Molecular Imaging & Dynamics
- Concepts in Magnetic Resonance Part B: Magnetic Resonance Engineering
- Scientific Reports
- Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
- Osteoarthritis and Cartilage
- IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques
- IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
- Annals of Biomedical Engineering
- Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications
- Journal of Magnetic Resonance
- Computing Surveys
- Frontiers in Physics
- IEEE Access
- Cartilage
- Neuroimage
- URSI Radio Science Letters
- Diagnostics
- Arthritis Care & Research
Peer review of grant applications for:
- National Science Foundation (NSF)
- National Institutes of Health (NHI)
- The U.S.-Italy Fulbright Commission
- Italian Ministry of Health
- Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (MIUR)
- Italian Medicines Agency (AIFA)
- U.S. Department of Defense
- Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NOW)
- Israel Science Foundation (ISF)
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Video Appearance
RAI Italia, June 29, 2021. Interviewed for the program “L’Italia con Voi“.
RAI Speciale TG1, October 21, 2018. Interviewed for the documentary “Little Italy”. The full documentary is available at this link.
i-Italy TV, February 2017. Meet the New Italian Scientists of New York. Also on YouTube.
RAI Italia, July 2, 2015. Interviewed for the program “Community” (starting at 6:56, ending at 21:20). Try this link if the video does not play.
i-Italy TV, November 2014. PrimiDieci – The ten most distinguished Italians in the USA today (starting at 2:00). Also on YouTube.
Interviewed for the Y-DNA Project, June 2014. Available with subtitles on YouTube.
RAI Scuola. Interviewed about the network Innovitalia.net. Try this link if the video does not play.
RAI Scuola. Interviewed about my research work. Try this link if the video does not play.
Ministry of Foreign Affair, October 4, 2012. Press conference about the launch of Innovitalia.net, the digital platform for Italian researcher.
RAI International, March 3, 2006. Interviewed during the conference “La rivolta della Generazione X”, co-organized by MITaly and Vision.
Radio Appearance
Radio 24, June 14, 2014. Interviewed for the program “Giovani talenti” (starting at time 4:48).
RAI Radio 3, May 18, 2012. Interviewed for the program “Giovani leader crescono. Ritratto di classe dirigente“.
RAI Radio 3, May 16, 2012. Interviewed for the program “Giovani leader crescono. Ritratto di classe dirigente“.
Radio 24, May 15, 2010. Interviewed for the program “La rosa purpurea” (starting at time 18:50).
Radio 24, March 13, 2010. Interviewed for the program “Giovani talenti“.
Radio RAI International, December 10, 2008. Interviewed for the program “Taccuino Italiano”.
Interviews and Coverage in Print Media
Riccardo, l’ingegnere senza confini. Corriere Adriatico, 12th October 2016. (download PDF)
Lattanzi è tra i migliori in America. Il Resto del Carlino, 12th October 2016. (download PDF)
Da Porto Sant’Elpidio a New York inseguendo la biomedicina. Mondo Lavoro, November 2015. (download PDF)
Elpidiense premiato in America. Corriere Adriatico, 27th October 2015. (download PDF)
Lattanzi in lizza tra i cinque ricercatori da premiare negli USA. Il Resto del Carlino, 27th October 2015. (download PDF)
Degenerazione dell’anca, prevenire si può. Corriere Adriatico, 16th May 2013. (download PDF)
Migliore risonanza per le diagnosi. Panorama, 29th May 2008. (download PDF)
Italiani al MIT. I nostri scienziati d’America. Panorama, 4th December 2007. (download PDF)
Interviews on the Internet
Italian Scientists Speak to the Next Generation. i-Italy, 23 February 2017. (link)
Work Out, Your Brain Will Improve Your Memory. La voce di New York, 21 July 2016. (link, also in Italian)
«Io, docente da New York a Napoli» Il prof che seleziona i migliori cervelli. Corriere del Mezzogiorno, 24 March 2016. (link or download PDF)
Stati Uniti. Biomedico nel segno dei Lakers. Messaggero di sant’Antonio, June 2015. (download PDF)
Medici e ingegneri insieme per diagnosi migliori. Aspen Institute Italia, 22nd July 2013. (link)
Faccia a faccia con…Riccardo Lattanzi. Info Fermo, April 2010. (link)
Interview with Riccardo Lattanzi: scientist and aspiring journalist. ISSNAF, 9th March 2009. (link)
Press Releases
Latest faculty-to-faculty event highlighted research on making the world healthier and more sustainable. 15th February 2018. (link or download PDF)
National Academy of Engineering selects young MRI researcher for prestigious Frontiers of Engineering Symposium. 15th November 2017. (link or download PDF)
National Science Foundation awards Riccardo Lattanzi NSF CAREER Award to Study Interaction of Electromagnetic Field With Biological Tissue. 24th March 2015. (link or download PDF)
National Science Foundation award will advance research on how radio waves interact with body. 24th March 2015. (link or download PDF)