Faculty & Staff Directory

Vinod Sahney
Professor Emeritus,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Health care initiatives; industrial engineering; operations research

Iman Salama
Teaching Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering - i.salama@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5386

Brittany Salazar
Assistant Co-op Coordinator,
Cooperative Education - b.salazar@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.6103

Masoud Salehi
Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies ,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Error correcting codes; information theory; digital communications
- salehi@ece.northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2446

Nora Salmon
Assistant Co-op Coordinator,
Cooperative Education - n.salmon@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3720

Mauricio Santillana
Professor,
jointly appointed in
Physics & Electrical and Computer Engineering
Modeling of geographic patterns of population growth, modeling fluid flow to inform coastal floods simulations and atmospheric global pollution transport models, and design and implementation of disease outbreaks prediction platforms and mathematical solutions to healthcare

Mehrdad Sasani
Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Progressive collapse of structures; earthquake engineering; structural integrity and reliability; building and community resilience
- sasani@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5222

Behrooz Satvat
Teaching Professor,
Chemical Engineering Engineering education, development of new applied mathematics courses for chemical engineering students. Mentors graduate and undergraduate students. Research in the field of separation technologies, thermodynamics and reaction engineering.
- b.satvat@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3461

Marybeth Savicki
Senior Director of Corporate Relations,
Corporations and Foundations - m.savicki@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5464

Hannah Sayre
Assistant Professor,
jointly appointed in
Chemistry and Chemical Biology & Chemical Engineering
Design photocatalysts to improve efficiency and reactivity. Understand light-activated chemical reactions with time-resolved spectroscopy.

Peter Schindler
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Discovery of novel materials for renewable energy applications using high-throughput density functional theory calculations and data-driven materials property predictions. Additional focus on surface science of thin-film growth, semiconductor fabrication, and heterogeneous catalysis.

Gunar Schirner
Associate Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Embedded computer systems; novel architectures for embedded vision; cyber-physical systems; system-level design and methodologies; hardware/software co-design
- schirner@ece.northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5707

Kathryn Schulte Grahame
Teaching Professor and Associate Director,
First Year Engineering Program Service-learning in engineering, first year engineering success, sustainable urban design; alternative energy sources; green roof technology; soil-liquid infiltration physics
- k.schulte@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2854

Cristina Schultz
Foley Family Assistant Professor,
jointly appointed in
Marine and Environmental Sciences & Civil and Environmental Engineering
Influence of long-term climate change and of climate variability on ocean biogeochemistry

Gail Schwartz
Assistant Co-op Coordinator,
Multidisciplinary Masters Co-op Programs - g.schwartz@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2422

Max Sederer
Associate Co-op Coordinator,
Cooperative Education - m.sederer@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.6370

Bahram Shafai
Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Control Systems and Signal Processing; Robust and Optimal Control, Positive Dynamic Systems, Fault Detection, Observer Theory, Robotics and Distributed Control of Multi-Agent Systems, Control of Biological Systems
- shafai@ece.northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2984

Shahin Shahrampour
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Machine learning, optimization and control, distributed and sequential learning, with a focus on developing computationally efficient methods for data analytics
- s.shahrampour@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5750

Thomas C. Sheahan
Executive Vice Provost,
Office of the Provost Soft ground engineering, coastal adaptation, education and training for engineers and scientists
- t.sheahan@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3995

Sandra Shefelbine
Associate Dean of Space and Special Initiatives,
Office of the Dean Multi-scale bone biomechanics–how the structure and composition of bone influences its mechanical properties; mechano-adaptation of bone and joint– how tissue responds to mechanical signals
- s.shefelbine@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3199

Max Shepherd
Assistant Professor,
jointly appointed in
Physical Therapy, Movement and Rehabilitation Sciences & Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Prosthetics and wearable robotics design and control, gait rehabilitation, preference optimization, and machine learning

Rebecca Sherbo
Assistant Professor,
jointly appointed in
Chemistry and Chemical Biology & Chemical Engineering
Electrochemical and biological ways to make important chemical products from gases and renewable energy

David A. Sherman
Assistant Professor,
jointly appointed in
Physical Therapy, Movement, and Rehabilitation Sciences & Electrical and Computer Engineering
Movement neuroscience, sensorimotor physiology, clinical research, orthopedics, rehabilitation

Namratha Shetty
Assistant Director of Student Retention & Engagement,
Office of the Dean - na.shetty@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8793

Shiaoming Shi
Associate Teaching Professor,
Bioengineering Cancer detection and drug discovery technologies
- s.shi@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2989

Weiyan Shi
Assistant Professor,
jointly appointed in
Electrical and Computer Engineering & Khoury College of Computer Sciences
Persuasive dialogues, dialogue systems, natural language processing, AI safety, machine learning, artificial intelligence