Faculty & Staff Directory
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Sara Wadia-Fascetti
Professor and Vice Provost of PhD Network,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Condition assessment methodologies for infrastructure systems; life cycle and life span analysis; structural and earthquake engineering uncertainty
- s.wadia-fascetti@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5828

Jacob Walker
Associate Co-op Coordinator & Assistant Director,
Cooperative Education - jw.walker@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5393

Rachel Walsh-Peterson
Senior Co-op Coordinator,
Cooperative Education - ra.walsh@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4302

Kai-tak Wan
Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Cellular biomechanics; water filtration; thin film adhesion and characterization; subsurface mechano-sensing; shell adhesion; fundamental intersurface forces
- k.wan@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2248

Lei Wang
Assistant Professor,
jointly appointed in Bioengineering & Biology Mammalian synthetic biology tools to advance cancer cellular therapy, regenerative medicine, and microfluidic human organ models

Ming L. Wang
COE Distinguished Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Network-wide pavement and bridge deck inspections: sensor technology for infrastructure; saliva-based sensor technology for disease diagnosis and monitoring; structural health monitoring for bridges; subsurface fault detection using air-coupled GPR systems
- mi.wang@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3900

Ning Wang
Professor,
Bioengineering Cellular and molecular mechanomedicine, Cancer cell biology and mechanics, Embryonic stem cell biology and mechanics, Mechanical biotechnologies and their applications to cells, tissues, and organisms, Mechanotransduction: nuclear deformation and gene expression

Qi “Ryan” Wang
Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Research,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Urban and social resilience; geo-social networking; coupled, human-natural systems, natural disaster response and evacuation; urban computing
- q.wang@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7984

Yanzhi Wang
Associate Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Real-time and energy-efficient deep learning and artificial intelligence systems, model compression of deep neural networks (DNNs), neuromorphic computing and non-von Neumann computing paradigms
- yanz.wang@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8805

Meni Wanunu
Professor,
jointly appointed in Physics & Bioengineering development of next-generation DNA and RNA sequencing methods; nanopores as molecular sensors; bioinspired sustainability solutions; optical and electrical analysis of biomolecular systems; electron microscopy and electron-beam shaping of nanomaterials
- m.wanunu@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7412

Irvine W. Wei
Professor Emeritus,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Ozonation & Chlorination of Water, Advanced Oxidation Processes, Chemical Precipitation & Coagulation, Kinetics & Mechanism of Chemical Processes
- iwei@coe.northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3368

Jing-Ke Weng
Professor,
jointly appointed in Chemistry & Chemical Biology & Bioengineering Natural product biochemistry, plant abiotic and biotic interactions, carbon sequestration, agricultural biotechnology, food allergy, drug discovery

Richard West
Associate Professor,
Chemical Engineering Development of detailed microkinetic models for complex reacting systems; automating the discovery and calculation of reaction pathways; heterogeneous catalysis
- r.west@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5163

Richard Whalen
Director & Teaching Professor,
First Year Engineering Program Engineering Education, Evidence-Based Teaching, Pedagogy, Assessment, Thermo-fluids Engineering, Microscale Heat Transfer, Numerical Modeling of Laser Welding of Plastics, Thermal Effects in Nonlinear Optical Material
- r.whalen@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4706

Paul Whitford
Affiliated Faculty,
Bioengineering dynamics of large-scale molecular machines, working to identify the physical principles that guide biomolecular dynamics, using molecular simulation approaches to interpret experimental data from a wide range of techniques, including biochemical, small-angle X-ray scattering and cryogenic electron microscopy
- p.whitford@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2952

John “Peter” Whitney
Associate Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Human-safe robots, medical robotics, soft robotics and soft material manufacturing, MEMS, microrobotics, bio-inspired design, flapping aerodynamics and insect flight
- j.whitney@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3427

Ronald J. Willey
Professor Emeritus,
Chemical Engineering Process safety education
High pressure chemical processes

Mark Williams
Affiliated Faculty,
Bioengineering single molecule biophysics, molecular biophysics
- ma.williams@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5705

Rebecca Willits
Professor and Chairperson,
Chemical Engineering Mechanobiology of neural systems;
Systems for nerve regeneration;
Diversity and equity in engineering
- r.willits@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2989

Monica Wing
Grants Manager - Pre Award,
Administrative Resource Center - m.wing@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8310

Raimond Winslow
Professor,
jointly appointed in Bioengineering, Khoury College of Computer Sciences & Clinical and Rehabilitation Sciences Computational modeling of the cardiac myocyte to understand the molecular basis of arrhythmias; machine learning in critical care medicine to identify those patients who require urgent care

Kathy Wong
Assistant Co-op Coordinator, Seattle,
Multidisciplinary Masters Co-op Programs - ka.wong@northeastern.edu
- 206.467.5480

Megan Woodbury
Postdoctoral Research Associate,
PROTECT Prenatal exposures and neurodevelopment, neurotoxicology, environmental epidemiology, environmental health, public health, endocrine disrupting chemicals, drugs and supplements, interactive effects of exposures

Maureen Woodward
Assistant Director of Pre Award Administration,
Administrative Resource Center - m.woodward@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2272

Benjamin Woolston
Assistant Professor,
Chemical Engineering Metabolic engineering and synthetic biology for sustainable biochemical production and human health
- b.woolston@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5560

Kimberly Wright
Academic Advisor and Program Manager, Silicon Valley,
Graduate School of Engineering 
Mingzhong Wu
Professor,
jointly appointed in Physics & Electrical and Computer Engineering Topological quantum materials, magnetic thin films, spin transport, spin torque, spin waves, and ferromagnetic resonance