Faculty & Staff Directory
29 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.northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3352

Rebecca L. Carrier
Professor & Associate Chair of Research,
Chemical Engineering Intestinal tissue engineering, retinal regenerative medicine, oral drug delivery
- r.carrier@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7126

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 multi-model
imaging and remote sensing. Activities include computer modeling,
designing, building, and testing of hardware, and processing the
resulting data
- dimarzio@ece.northeastern.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.northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3062

Deniz Erdogmus
Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Statistical signal and image analysis, machine learning, neural interfaces, biomedical data analysis, human-intent inference for CPS
- erdogmus@ece.northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3021

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 computer intensive applications from the edge to the cloud. Applications of FPGAs including wireless communications, machine learning and data privacy
- mel@ece.northeastern.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.northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2066

Sarah Ostadabbas
Assistant Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Computer Vision; Machine Learning; Artificial Intelligence; Augmented Cognition with Medical Applications; Augmented/Virtual Reality
- ostadabbas@ece.northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4992

Taskin Padir
Director,
Institute for Experiential Robotics Experiential robotics, human-robot teaming at the extremes, embodied artificial intelligence
- t.padir@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8114

Rupal Patel
Affiliated Faculty,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Speech acoustics, Speech signal processing, AI Voice, voice analytics
- 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
Associate Dean for 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

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.northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5277

Eugene Tunik
Affiliated Faculty,
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

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

Hongli (Julie) Zhu
Associate Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Energy storage; Advanced manufacturing; Multifunctional bio-inspired material from nature; Nano/microfabrication of devices and materials; Bendable, implantable, and biocompatible electronics; Investigations of sustainable biomaterial, like cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin, in life science and engineering
- h.zhu@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2735