Faculty & Staff Directory
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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

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

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

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

Ahmed Busnaina
WL Smith Chair and University Distinguished Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Nanomanufacturing; nano and microscale printing of sensors and electronics; nano and micro-scale defects in semiconductor manufacturing; high rate nanomanufacturing; power electronics, RF, NEMS devices and nanomaterials based nanoelectronics, flexible and hybrid electronics
- busnaina@coe.neu.edu
- 617.373.2992

Octavia Camps
Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
- camps@ece.neu.edu
- 617.373.4663

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

Ozlem Ergun
Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Design and management of large-scale networks, supply chain design and resilience, collaboration and crowdsourcing in logistics, humanitarian logistics
- o.ergun@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.6254

Stephen Flynn
Affiliated Faculty,
Civil and Environmental Engineering critical infrastructure resilience; public policy
- s.flynn@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4220

Peter G. Furth
Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Traffic signal control; transit signal priority; transit operations modeling; transit data collection and sampling
- pfurth@coe.neu.edu
- 617.373.2447

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

Jerome F. Hajjar
CDM Smith Professor and Chair,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Steel and composite steel/concrete structures; earthquake engineering; structural stability; large-scale experimental testing of structures; regional simulation
- jf.hajjar@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3242

Brian Helmuth
Affiliated Faculty,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Ecological forecasting and resilience of coastal environments
- b.helmuth@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2059

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

Haris Koutsopoulos
Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Urban transportation networks and informatics, mobility on demand, intelligent transportation systems, public transportation operations
- h.koutsopoulos@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.6263

Carolyn W.T. Lee-Parsons
Associate Professor,
jointly appointed in Chemical Engineering & Chemistry & Chemical Biology Production of valuable pharmaceutical compounds from plant cell cultures, specifically the production of important anti-cancer drug molecules from cell cultures of Catharanthus roseus
- ca.lee@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3634

Yiannis Levendis
COE Distinguished Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Gasification and combustion of solid fuels, generation and containment of combustion-generated pollution, synthesis and characterization of combustion-generated materials, fire suppression – fire extinction, engine design and operation
- y.levendis@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3806

Carol Livermore
Associate Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering MEMS-enabled systems for assistive technologies, energy harvesting, and microscale vacuum applications; origami-enabled microfluidics and tissue engineering; carbon nanomaterials
- livermore@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4922

Sanjeev Mukerjee
Affiliated Faculty,
Chemical Engineering Physical/materials chemistry
- s.mukerjee@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2382

Andrew T. Myers
Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Fixed and floating offshore wind structures; multi-scale experimental testing of structures; computational simulation; probabilistic modeling
- atm@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3813

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

Wil Robertson
Associate Professor,
jointly appointed in Khoury College of Computer Sciences & Electrical and Computer Engineering Trustworthy computing architectures, web security, statistical machine learning for anomaly detection, malware analysis using adversarial program analysis, reverse engineering, intrusion detection.
- wkr@ccs.neu.edu
- 617.373.2136

Mehrdad Sasani
Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Progressive collapse of structures; earthquake engineering; structural integrity and reliability; building and community resilience
- sasani@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5222

Craig Shillaber
Assistant Teaching Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Geotechnical subsurface characterization through in-situ and laboratory methods; quantification of construction energy and carbon; sustainable geotechnics
- c.shillaber@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3825

Michael B. Silevitch
Robert D. Black Professor, COE Distinguished Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Subsurface sensing and imaging systems, detection of explosives-related anomalies, engineered system development and engineering leadership
- m.silevitch@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3033

Mario Sznaier
Dennis Picard Trustee Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Robust control, control oriented identification, semi-algebraic optimization, information extraction from high volume data streams, dynamics-enabled machine learning
- msznaier@ece.neu.edu
- 617.373.5364

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

Edmund Yeh
Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Networking and systems for data-intensive engineering, science, health applications;
caching, fog/edge computing, networked distributed learning;
wireless network optimization, coding
for low latency, network coding, polar codes;
interdependent networks, cascading failure,
information dissemination; network economics.
- eyeh@ece.neu.edu
- 617.373.5400

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