H. Harry Hu received a B.S. degree in biomedical and biochemical engineering from the University of Southern California (USC) in 2001. Harry was the 2001 recipient of USC’s Fred S. Grodin Award in Undergraduate Excellence. After USC, Harry went on to study medical physics and magnetic resonance imaging at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, where he earned a Ph.D. degree in 2006. His doctoral thesis focused on rapid MRI data acquisition strategies and the study of intracranial and whole-body angiography to assess vascular diseases. From 2006 - 2009, he was a postdoctoral research associate in the Magnetic Resonance Engineering Laboratory at USC (http://mrel.usc.edu/). Harry is presently a Research Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering in the Viterbi School of Engineering. His current research focuses on the development of rapid quantitative fat-water MRI methods to study obesity, brown fat, and metabolism. His main interest is in translational research, where he promotes the use of new non-invasive MRI techniques to address questions in obesity research. His work has involved collaborations with colleagues from USC’s Keck School of Medicine to study hepatic and pancreatic fat infiltrations in overweight adolescents and from Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles and the University of Alabama at Birmingham to characterize brown fat in mice and humans. Harry’s thesis and postdoctoral work has resulted in more than 40 conference presentations, ten first-author manuscripts, and one U.S. patent. Harry is also a co-author on multiple articles in journals including Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Journal of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance, Radiology, and Obesity.
