Faculty & Staff Directory

Michelle Laboy
Associate Professor,
School of Architecture Building and site systems integration; structures and landscape performance; building and urban resilience; green infrastructure; socio-ecological factors in design, transdisciplinary teaching and learning
- m.laboy@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5320

Luke Landherr
COE Distinguished Teaching Professor and Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies,
Chemical Engineering Development of comics, visualization, and modules for novel STEM teaching tools for all-ages education
- l.landherr@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8646

Timothy Lannin
Associate Teaching Professor and Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies,
Bioengineering - t.lannin@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7805

Philip Larese-Casanova
Associate Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Physical, chemical, and electrochemical transformation processes of metallic, inorganic, and organic water pollutants, with applications to groundwater environments and unit operations
- phil@coe.northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2899

Alexis Lavallee
Senior Academic Advisor,
Undergraduate Academic Advising - a.lavallee@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2154

Janet LeClair
Director, Marketing and Communications,
Office of the Dean - j.leclair@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.6029

Perry Lee
Associate Director of IT Infrastructure & Architecture,
Electrical and Computer Engineering 
Victoria Lee
Assistant Co-op Coordinator,
Cooperative Education - vi.lee@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3762

Carolyn W.T. Lee-Parsons
Associate Professor,
jointly appointed in
Chemical Engineering & Chemistry & Chemical Biology
Production of valuable pharmaceutical compounds from plant cell cultures, specifically the production of important anti-cancer drug molecules from cell cultures of Catharanthus roseus
- ca.lee@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3634

Miriam Leeser
Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Accelerators for computer intensive applications from the edge to the cloud. Applications of FPGAs including wireless communications, machine learning and data privacy
- mel@ece.northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3814

Bradley Lehman
Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Power electronics, dc-dc converters, pulse width modulation, motion control, electric motor drives, analog circuits, control theory, differential equations, time delays, nonlinear systems and control, industrial control
- lehman@ece.northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3052

Maureen Leite
Associate Director of Pre Award Administration,
Administrative Resource Center - m.leite@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2272

Brian Lejeune
Assistant Teaching Professor,
Chemical Engineering Integrating computational resources and AI into the classroom creating an interactive environment for a diverse range of learners and adapting to the cutting edge tools and resources industry expects. I leveraging examples in energy, sustainability and Materials focus areas working to inspire students to envision unique solutions to environmental, societal, and technological challenges.
- b.lejeune@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.6190

Jack Lesko
Professor,
jointly appointed in
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering & Civil and Environmental Engineering
emerging interdisciplinary design involving lightweight polymeric multifunctional materials, structural design and reliability, packaging, and energy systems
- j.lesko@northeastern.edu
- 540-553-5456

Laurent Lessard
Associate Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Control theory, linear systems, optimization algorithms, machine learning
- l.lessard@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8039

Hanoch Lev-Ari
Professor Emeritus,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Adaptive filtering, Statistical signal processing, spectrum analysis and estimation, networked dynamic state estimation.

Yiannis Levendis
COE Distinguished Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Gasification and combustion of solid fuels, generation and containment of combustion-generated pollution, synthesis and characterization of combustion-generated materials, fire suppression – fire extinction, engine design and operation
- y.levendis@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3806

Erel Levine
Associate Professor,
Bioengineering Systems and synthetic biology of the Brain-Immune-Gut super-system; Interactions among hosts and microbes; Deep learning approaches to interpreting biological data and designing biomedical solutions

Herbert Levine
University Distinguished Professor,
jointly appointed in
Physics & Bioengineering
Physical modeling of cancer progression, metastasis and interaction with the immune system. Most recent interests include the role of metabolic plasticity in these processes and the co-evolution of the tumor and the adaptive immune system. Other areas include spatial organization of the actin cytoskeleton, the mechanics of collective cell motility, and the analysis of genetic circuits involved in cell fate decisions.
- h.levine@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7201

Lindsay Levy
Associate Director of Faculty and Staff Affairs,
Administrative Resource Center - l.levy@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5387

Kim Lewis
Affiliated Faculty,
Bioengineering Antimicrobial drug tolerance, antibiotic discovery, microbiome therapeutics
- k.lewis@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8238

Laura H. Lewis
Distinguished University and Cabot Professor,
jointly appointed in
Chemical Engineering & Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Structure-property relationships in magnetofunctional materials for energy transformations including advanced permanent magnet materials and magnetocaloric materials; strategic materials and supply chains for technological application
- lhlewis@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3419

Yaning Li
Associate Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Mechanics of materials, bio-inspired engineering, and additive manufacturing; mechanics of innovative architectured materials; mechanical metamaterials; biological materials
- y.li@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3027

Maijia Liao
Affiliated Faculty,
Bioengineering Quantitative Neuroscience, Cell Mechanics, Cytoskeleton in Neurons, Biotransport, Advanced Imaging Method, Physics of Living Matter

Elizabeth Libby
Assistant Professor,
Bioengineering Synthetic biology, microbiology, biosensor development

Xue "Shelley" Lin
Associate Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Robust and Secure Machine Learning; Deep Learning on the Edge; Cyber-Physical Systems
- xue.lin@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4030

Yingzi Lin
Professor and Interim Chair,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Human-machine systems, human factors, biosensing and smart systems, human state and behavior modeling, transportation safety, healthcare and patient safety, human-friendly mechatronics, and human-robot interaction
- yi.lin@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8610