Welcome New 2022-2023 Faculty
Announcing Our Newest College of Engineering Faculty Joining in 2022-2023
The College of Engineering at Northeastern University welcomes 20 new tenured/tenure-track faculty for the 2022-2023 academic year, including ten jointly appointed in other colleges at Northeastern, fostering interdisciplinary research. These scholars add to our research strengths in key areas such as autonomous systems, biological sensing and imaging, environmental health and climate, internet of things, and sustainable energy.
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
PhD: Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014
Scholarship Focus: Autonomous systems, control theory, formal methods, machine learning, and aerospace systems
Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering, jointly appointed in Chemistry and Chemical Biology
PhD: TU Dortmund University, Germany, 2017
Scholarship Focus: Discovery and scale-up of (electro)chemical CO2 utilization methods; accelerating the adoption of carbon neutral chemical manufacturing
Ravinder Dahiya
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
(Joining January 2023)
PhD: Italian Institute of Technology, 2009
Scholarship Focus: Flexible printed electronics, robotics (soft robotics), electronic skin, tactile sensing, haptics, intelligent interactive systems, wearable systems
Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, jointly appointed in Marine and Environmental Sciences
PhD: Stanford University, 2018
Scholarship Focus: Ecohydrologic modeling for water resources and conservation
Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering
PhD: Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009
Scholarship Focus: Semiconductor quantum dots for biomedical imaging and biosensing
Ken Duffy
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, jointly appointed in Mathematics
(Joining January 2023)
PhD: Trinity College Dublin, 2000
Scholarship Focus: Algorithms for communication systems, the life sciences, and DNA forensics
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, jointly appointed in Khoury College of Computer Sciences
(Joining January 2023)
PhD: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020
Scholarship Focus: Robotics, motion planning, control theory, neural network verification, reinforcement learning
Assistant Professor, Bioengineering, jointly appointed in Physics
PhD: University of California-Santa Cruz, 2017
Scholarship Focus: Nanopore technology, single-cell techniques, computational biology
Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
PhD: University of Connecticut, 2018
Scholarship Focus: Nonlinear systems and control; modeling and control of partial differential equations described systems; stochastic control and optimization; statistical and machine learning estimation and forecasting
Yu Miao
Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, jointly appointed in Marine and Environmental Sciences
(Joining January 2023)
PhD: University of California, Los Angeles, 2019
Scholarship Focus: Environmental biotechnology for water and soil quality, resource recovery, and ecosystem and public health
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, jointly appointed in Physics
PhD: University of Texas, Austin, 2008
Scholarship Focus: Modeling of geographic patterns, fluid flow, and atmospheric global pollution transport; disease outbreak prediction platforms; mathematical solutions to healthcare
Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
PhD: University of Vienna, 2015
Scholarship Focus: Data-driven surface science for materials discovery in renewable energy and semiconductor applications
Cristina Schultz
Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, jointly appointed in Marine and Environmental Sciences
(Joining January 2023)
PhD: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019
Scholarship Focus: Ocean modeling, impacts of long-term climate change and of climate variability on ocean biogeochemistry
Rebecca Sherbo
Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering, jointly appointed in Chemistry and Chemical Biology
(Joining January 2023)
PhD: University of British Columbia, 2019
Scholarship Focus: Electrochemical and biological ways to make important chemical products from gases and renewable energy
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
PhD: University of California, Davis, 2017
Scholarship Focus: Low-power integrated circuits and systems, micro/nanofabrication; wireless biomedical devices and systems, neural interfaces, closed-loop therapeutic systems
Tao Sun
Assistant Professor, Bioengineering
(Joining January 2023)
PhD: Tufts University, 2018
Scholarship Focus: Ultrasound, cavitation, immunomodulation and drug delivery in diseased and aging brains
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, jointly appointed in Physical Therapy, Movement, and Rehabilitation Sciences
PhD: Rutgers University, 2017
Scholarship Focus: Movement neuroscience, motor physiology, clinical research, physiological signal processing, and biomechanics
Associate Professor, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
PhD: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016
Scholarship Focus: Control, estimation, identification, and analysis of autonomous, robotic, and cyber-physical systems
Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
PhD: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019
Scholarship Focus: Electro-chemo-mechanics in energy story systems, applications of scientific machine learning, battery sustainability and safety
Note: one new faculty member starting in January 2023 is not profiled.