Faculty & Staff Directory
33 Items found

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

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

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

Dana Brooks
Research Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Biomedical signal and image processing; medical imaging; statistical signal processing; inverse problems; electrocardiography; bio-optical imaging; magnetic resonance imaging; transcranial neuromodulation; estimation of protein conformations from Xray scattering; regularization; optimization
- brooks@ece.neu.edu
- 617.373.3352

Rebecca L. Carrier
Professor,
Chemical Engineering intestinal tissue engineering, retinal regenerative medicine, oral drug delivery
- r.carrier@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7126

Heather Clark
Professor,
jointly appointed in Bioengineering & Chemistry and Chemical Biology Optical nanosensors for biological analysis
- h.clark@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3091

Erin J. Cram
Affiliated Faculty,
Bioengineering Cell migration and mechanotransduction in C. elegans, improving production of drug compounds by medicinal plants
- e.cram@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7533

Jack Dennerlein
Affiliated Faculty,
Bioengineering musculoskeletal disorders; work place injury prevention and health; occupational biomechanics; biomechanics of human movement
- j.dennerlein@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5428

Charles DiMarzio
Associate Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Optics, microscopy, coherent detection, interaction of light and sound waves, hyperspectral imaging, diffusive optical tomography and ultrasound, landmine detection, magneto-optic sensors, and multi-model imaging. Activities include computer modeling, designing, building, and testing of hardware, and processing the resulting data
- dimarzio@ece.neu.edu
- 617.373.2034

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

Deniz Erdogmus
Professor and Vice Chair of Research,
Electrical and Computer Engineering machine learning, signal and image analytics, cyber-human systems
- erdogmus@ece.neu.edu
- 617.373.3021

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

Christopher Hasson
Affiliated Faculty,
Bioengineering to understand how the complex interactions between the nervous system, musculoskeletal system, and the environment affect movement control and learning in humans
- c.hasson@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8745

Alain Karma
Affiliated Faculty,
Bioengineering computational modeling of cardiac arrhythmia mechanisms from cellular to organ scales including systems biology approaches
- a.karma@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2929

Ryan Koppes
Assistant Professor,
Chemical Engineering neural interface technology, tissue engineering, and musculoskeletal biomechanics
- r.koppes@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8547

Miriam Leeser
Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Accelerators for compute intensive applications: reconfigurable hardware and graphics processing units (GPUs). Applications including biocomputing, machine learning, software-defined radio. Uses and implementations of computer arithmetic.
- mel@ece.neu.edu
- 617.373.3814

Kim Lewis
Affiliated Faculty,
Bioengineering Antimicrobial drug tolerance, antibiotic discovery, microbiome therapeutics
- k.lewis@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8238

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

Lee Makowski
Professor and Chair,
jointly appointed in Bioengineering & Chemistry and Chemical Biology image and signal processing as applied to biophysical data designed to answer fundamental questions about the molecular basis of living systems, and progression of Alzheimer's Disease
- l.makowski@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3006

Nicol McGruer
Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering MEMS, NEMS, RF MEMS; nanotechnology; micro/nanofabrication; microsystems; microrelay; nanoswitch; microspectrometer; microfluidics; organic FETs, organic solar cells
- mcgruer@ece.neu.edu
- 617.373.2066

Sarah Ostadabbas
Assistant Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Machine learning/pattern recognition; computer vision, affective computing, human-machine interaction
- ostadabbas@ece.neu.edu
- 617.373.4992

Taskin Padir
Associate Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Humanoid robots, dexterous manipulation, model-based robot design, human-supervised robot autonomy, medical cyber-physical systems
- t.padir@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8114

Rupal Patel
Affiliated Faculty,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Speech communication and human computer interfaces
- r.patel@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5842

Jeffrey W. Ruberti
Professor,
Bioengineering tissue engineering of load-bearing matrix (bone, cornea); bioreactor design; multi-scale mechanobiochemistry; statistical mechanics; energetics microscopy; high-resolution imaging; biopolymer self-assembly
- j.ruberti@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3984

Sandra Shefelbine
Professor,
jointly appointed in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering & Bioengineering 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

Srinivas Sridhar
Affiliated Faculty,
Bioengineering nanomedicine; neurotechnology; drug delivery, MRI imaging
- s.sridhar@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2930

Dagmar Sternad
University Distinguished Professor,
jointly appointed in Biology & Electrical and Computer Engineering Motor control and learning, variability and stability, virtual rehabilitation, dynamic modeling, rhythmic and discrete movements as primitives for action
- d.sternad@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5093

Gilead Tadmor
Professor Emeritus,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Control systems; dynamical systems; low order modeling and estimation in complex systems; medical imaging
- tadmor@coe.neu.edu
- 617.373.5277

Eugene Tunik
Affiliated Faculty,
jointly appointed in Bioengineering & Electrical and Computer Engineering Human motor control / learning, neurorehabilitation neuroscience, brain stimulation, brain imaging, virtual reality
- e.tunik@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2924

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

Thomas J. Webster
Professor, Art Zafiropoulo Chair in Engineering,
Chemical Engineering design, synthesis, and evaluation of nanomaterials for various medical applications, including self-assembled chemistries, nanoparticles, nanotubes, and nanostructured surfaces

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