= Richard M Leahy =
== Professor Electrical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Radiology ==
Richard  Leahy was born in Surrey, England in 1960. He received the B.Sc. and Ph.D.  degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne,  England in 1981 and 1985 respectively. In 1985 he joined USC where he is  currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and a member of the Signal and Image Processing Institute. He holds joint  appointments with the Departments of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering at  USC. His research interests lie in the application of signal and image  processing theory to biomedical inverse problems. His current research involves  the development of inverse methods for imaging of biological function with  applications to functional neuroimaging and oncology.