Faculty & Staff Directory
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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

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

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

Jennifer Dy
Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Machine learning; data mining; statistical pattern recognition; computer vision and image processing
- jdy@ece.neu.edu
- 617.373.3062

Matthew J. Eckelman
Associate Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Environmental engineering and sustainability; life cycle assessment; energy efficiency and emissions modeling; environmental assessment of bio and nanomaterials; material and energy use in urban buildings and infrastructure
- m.eckelman@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4256

Loretta A. Fernandez
Associate Professor,
jointly appointed in Civil and Environmental Engineering & Marine and Environmental Sciences Environmental organic chemistry; passive sampling methods for organic contaminants in water and sediments; transport and transformation of contaminants in indoor and natural environments
- l.fernandez@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5461

Edgar D. Goluch
Associate Professor,
Chemical Engineering detection of biomolecules at the nanoscale in micro and nanofluidic channels; biophysics; micro and systems biology; environmental sensing; analytical instrumentation
- e.goluch@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3500

Tarik Gouhier
Affiliated Faculty,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Theoretical Ecology
- t.gouhier@northeastern.edu
- 781.581.7370

Jacqueline Griffin
Associate Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering health care resource allocation with multi-objective resource allocation models; modeling resiliency in complex systems; design and management of outpatient health care clinics; simulation: discrete event simulation and systems dynamics; deterministic and stochastic optimization
- ja.griffin@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7635

Carlos Hidrovo
Associate Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Multiscale and multiphase flow and transport phenomena, surface tension interactions in micro/nanoengineered structures, and electrokinetic ion transport in porous media for applications in energy storage, portable biochemical diagnostics, thermal management, and water treatment systems
- hidrovo@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7520

Julia Hopkins
Assistant Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering coastal morphodynamics, including effects of extreme weather events on sediment transport in the surf zone; wave-current interactions in the nearshore; developing and implementing field-verified numerical models to study coastal processes, informing coastal management with process-based research

David Kaeli
COE Distinguished Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Computer architecture; GPUs; heterogeneous computing; performance analysis; security and information assurance; hardware reliability and recovery; Big Data analytics; workload characterization
- kaeli@ece.neu.edu
- 617.373.5413

Philip Larese-Casanova
Associate Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Environmental chemistry and mineralogy; transformation and remediation of water pollutants; nanomaterial sorbents for water treatment
- phil@coe.neu.edu
- 617.373.2899

Annalisa Onnis-Hayden
Teaching Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Biological treatment processes; ecotoxicology and toxicity assessment; microbial population dynamics and ecology in engineered biological systems
- aonnis@coe.neu.edu
- 617.373.2005

Mark Patterson
Professor,
jointly appointed in Marine and Environmental Sciences & Civil and Environmental Engineering Development of autonomous underwater robots for civil infrastructure and marine sensing; decision support tools for gray/green infrastructure like tide gates; environmental fluid mechanics; biomechanics and mass transfer in living systems
- m.patterson@northeastern.edu
- 781.581.7370 x313

Kelsey Pieper
Assistant Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Applied environmental chemistry; corrosion; drinking water quality, treatment, and infrastructure; post-disaster drinking water recovery; public health engineering

Ameet Pinto
Assistant Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Microbial ecology and physiology, drinking water treatment and distribution, wastewater treatment, public health microbiology, molecular microbiology, 'omics analyses
- a.pinto@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5241

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

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

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

Yang Zhang
Professor and Distinguished Fellow and Associate Chair for Research,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Air quality; atmospheric chemistry; cloud/aerosol microphysics; sensitivity and uncertainty analysis; multiscale atmospheric modeling and forecasting; climate and Earth system modeling; health impact assessment; eco-environmental sustainability; human-Earth system interactions

Hongli (Julie) Zhu
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Advanced manufacturing; Multifunctional bio-inspired material from nature; Sustainable energy storage; Nano/micro fabrication of devices and materials; Bendable, implantable and biocompatible electronics; Application of sustainable biomaterial, like the cellulose, hemicelluloses and lignin, in life science. Zhu Lab’s research interests include sustainable energy storage, multifunctional materials, and advanced manufacturing. In focusing on sustainable energy storage, biodegradable materials, and manufacturing, Zhu Lab’s objective is to better address the needs of society by linking nature with people through technology. Their work has made strides in identifying sustainable natural materials to develop multifunctional materials and advanced devices for future technologies to reduce our dependence on petroleum.
- h.zhu@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2735