Faculty & Staff Directory

Mehdi Abedi
Assistant Teaching Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering - m.abedi@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4427

Emad Aboelela
Associate Teaching Professor and Vice Chair for Undergraduate Education,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Wireless Sensor Networks, Internet of Things, Embedded Systems, Quality-of-Service for Multimedia Networking, Computer Networks Management and Design.
- e.aboelela@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3386

Ali Abur
Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Power system monitoring, estimation and optimization, fault location and identification in power grids
- abur@ece.neu.edu
- 617.373.3051

George G. Adams
Professor Emeritus,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Contact mechanics including adhesion, friction, and plasticity; modeling and analysis of MEMS; modeling and analysis in nanomechanics
- adams_g@coe.neu.edu
- 617.373.3826

Laura Adrien
Assistant Co-op Coordinator,
Cooperative Education Area of Focus: Telecommunication Networks, Software Engineering Systems, Internet of Things
- l.adrien@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3585

Michael Ahern
Assistant Co-op Coordinator,
Cooperative Education - m.ahern@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5578

Muhammad Noor E Alam
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Applied operations research, healthcare, supply chain, large scale optimization, and big data analytics
- mnalam@neu.edu
- 781.353.9136

Brian Albrecht
Associate Co-op Coordinator & Assistant Director,
Cooperative Education - b.albrecht@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.6836

Muhammad Ali
Associate Research Scientist,
Electrical and Computer Engineering - m.ali@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.6992

Michael Allshouse
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Nonlinear dynamics, geophysical fluid dynamics, computational fluid mechanics, disaster response, experimental fluids
- m.allshouse@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2138

Akram N. Alshawabkeh
Senior Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education,
Office of the Dean Geoenvironmental engineering, soil and groundwater remediation; electrokinetic and electrochemical processes; contaminant fate and transport environmental restoration
- a.alshawabkeh@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3994

Christopher Amato
Affiliated Faculty,
Electrical and Computer Engineering - c.amato@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5807

Mansoor Amiji
University Distinguished Professor,
jointly appointed in Pharmaceutical Sciences & Chemical Engineering Polymeric biomaterials, drug delivery systems, nanomedical technologies
- m.amiji@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3137

Rouzbeh Amini
Associate Professor,
jointly appointed in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering & Bioengineering Biomechanics, mechanobiology, biotransport
- r.amini@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7688

Mahshid Amirabadi
Assistant Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering design, modeling and control of power converters, power electronics for renewable energy systems, microgrids, variable speed drives and wireless power transfer
- m.amirabadi@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8177

Parisa Andalib
Associate Research Scientist,
Electrical and Computer Engineering - p.andalib@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5185

Christopher Anderson
Postdoctoral Research Associate,
Civil and Environmental Engineering - c.anderson@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5241

Gregory Anderson
Senior Systems Coordinator,
Engineering Computer Center - ganderson@coe.neu.edu
- 617.373.4848

Teiichi Ando
Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Rapid solidification processing, droplet-based materials processing, powder metallurgy, material processing by severe plastic deformation, processing-structure-property relationships in materials
- tando@coe.neu.edu
- 617.373.3811

Javier Apfeld
Affiliated Faculty,
Bioengineering Studies how protein networks transmit oxidative information in health and with aging in a simple model organism, the nematode C. elegans.
- j.apfeld@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4495

Ian Armstrong
Lab Operationss & Safety Manager,
Bioengineering - i.armstrong@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8591

Cheryl Arruda
Associate Co-op Coordinator,
Cooperative Education - c.arruda@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3988

Anand Asthagiri
Associate Professor,
Bioengineering cell and tissue engineering, quantitative principles of cancer cell biology and developmental biology
- a.asthagiri@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2996

Debra Auguste
Professor,
Chemical Engineering Bioresponsive drug delivery; cell and tissue engineering; tissue architecture; targeted therapeutics
- d.auguste@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.6243

Joseph Ayers
Affiliated Faculty,
jointly appointed in Bioengineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering & Electrical and Computer Engineering Development of underwater robots for civil infrastructure and explosive sensing; neurophysiology and behavior biomimetics
- j.ayers@northeastern.edu
- (781) 581-7370

Ruobing Bai
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Solid mechanics and large deformation, soft active materials: hydrogels, liquid crystal elastomers, and biomaterials, fracture and adhesion of materials, multi-physics of materials: mechanics, thermodynamics, chemistry, optics, and electromagnetism, instability of materials

Ambika Bajpayee
Assistant Professor,
Bioengineering drug delivery; bio-electrostatics; transport phenomena in biological systems; biomechanics; osteoarthritis
- a.bajpayee@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7018

Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
Affiliated Faculty,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering - a.barabasi@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7774

Sumner Barenberg
Professor of the Practice,
Bioengineering Design Medical Implants; Medical Implant Due Diligence; Biomaterials, Biopolymers, Biomemetics, Polymer Physics; Biodegradation; Interfacial Phenomena, Chemotaxis, Accelerated Aging
- s.barenberg@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7805

Jennifer Barnhart
Program Assistant,
Edward G. Galante Engineering Business Program - j.barnhart@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4722

Stefano Basagni
Associate Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Wireless networks; ad hoc networks; underwater and terrestrial sensor networking; protocol design and testing
- basagni@ece.neu.edu
- 617.373.3061

Sarah Batista-Pereira
Senior Development Associate,
Development and Alumni Affairs - s.batista-pereira@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3931

Anxhela Becolli
Administrative Access Assistant,
Bioengineering - a.becolli@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2031

Mehdi Behroozi
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Geographic resource allocation, logistics, scheduling, multimodal transport systems, shared mobility, decentralized systems and resilient networks, data visualization, computational social science; Data-driven robust optimization, computational geometry, geometric probability theory, and geospatial analysis.
- m.behroozi@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2032

R. Edward Beighley
Professor & Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Hydrologic and hydraulic modeling; remote sensing of the hydrologic cycle; hydrologic impacts of climate and/or land use change; flood hazard and risk assessment
- r.beighley@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3368

Deanna Beirne
Senior Director of Research Computing and Technology Transfer,
jointly appointed in Gordon-CenSSIS, ALERT & Gordon Institute of Engineering Leadership - d.beirne@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3473

Chiara Bellini
Assistant Professor,
Bioengineering Diseases of the cardiovascular system; effects of cellmediated growth and remodeling processes on tissue and organ mechanics
- c.bellini@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2550