Faculty & Staff Directory

Michelle Laboy
Assistant 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
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 - IT Infrastructure & Architecture,
Electrical and Computer Engineering 
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

Brian Lejeune
Lab Operations & Safety Manager,
Chemical Engineering - b.lejeune@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3603

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

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,
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

Jeffrey Ian Lipton
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering 3D Printing and Robotics

Handan Liu
Associate Teaching Professor,
Multidisciplinary Graduate Engineering Programs High-performance parallel computing, General algorithms and applications of machine learning, Multi-GPU distributed computing, Graph Machine Learning/Graph Neural Networks, Natural language processing.
- h.liu@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5424

Yongmin Liu
Associate Professor,
jointly appointed in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering & Electrical and Computer Engineering Nano optics, nanoscale materials and engineering, nano devices, plasmonics, metamaterials, and applied physics
- y.liu@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4457

Carol Livermore
Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Operations,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering MEMS-enabled actuator systems (assistive technologies, energy harvesting, and flow control); origami-enabled microfluidics and tissue engineering; carbon nanomaterials
- livermore@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4922

Fabrizio Lombardi
ITC Endowed Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Fault-tolerant computing, VLSI CAD, testing, configurable computing, distributed systems
- lombardi@ece.northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4854

Georgia Looney
Associate Co-op Coordinator,
Cooperative Education - g.looney@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3340