Faculty & Staff Directory
Gregory D. Abowd
Dean of the College of Engineering,
Office of the Dean
Human-Computer Interaction, Ubiquitous Computing, Software Engineering
Ali Abur
University Distinguished Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Monitoring power grid operating state during normal and faulted conditions.
Modeling and estimation of power system operating condition to facilitate improve reliability and operating efficiency.
- a.abur@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3051
Alp Akcay
Associate Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Simulation-based optimization, digital twins, data analytics, predictive maintenance, semiconductor manufacturing and supply chains
Derya Aksaray
Assistant Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Planning, learning, and control of autonomous robots with theoretical guarantees
Muhammad Noor E Alam
Associate Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Operations Research, Machine Learning, and Causal AI to develop interpretable solutions for public health, energy, and manufacturing
- md.alam@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2275
Serena Alexander
Associate Professor,
jointly appointed in
School for Public Policy and Urban Affairs
& Civil and Environmental Engineering
Climate change, sustainable and resilient transportation systems, environmental policy
Akram N. Alshawabkeh
George A. Snell Professor of Engineering and University Distinguished Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Geoenvironmental engineering, soil and groundwater remediation; electrokinetic and electrochemical processes; contaminant fate and transport environmental restoration
- a.alshawabkeh@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3994
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
Associate 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
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; breast cancer
- d.auguste@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.6243
Ruobing Bai
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Multifunctional materials towards durable, intelligent, and sustainable mechanical systems
- ru.bai@northeastern.edu
- 617-373-7150
Ambika Bajpayee
Associate Professor,
Bioengineering
Drug delivery; bio-electrostatics; transport phenomena in biological systems; biomechanics; osteoarthritis
- a.bajpayee@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7018
Magda Barecka
Assistant Professor,
jointly appointed in
Chemical Engineering
& Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Electrochemical methods for transformation of CO2 into the next generation of chemical building blocks.
Stefano Basagni
Associate Dean of the Global Engineering Campus,
Office of the Dean
Wireless networks; ad hoc networks; underwater and terrestrial sensor networking; protocol design and testing
- s.basagni@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3061
R. Edward Beighley
COE Distinguished Professor and Chair,
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
Chiara Bellini
Associate Professor and Associate Chair for PhD Program and Research,
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
James Benneyan
Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Healthcare systems engineering, operations research, quality and reliability engineering, statistical quality control, high reliability design, patient safety
- j.benneyan@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.6450
Dionisio P. Bernal
Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering
System identification, fault detection and fault localization, earthquake engineering, soil structure interaction, structural stability
- D.Bernal@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4417
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
- a.busnaina@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2992
Octavia Camps
Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
- o.camps@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3010
Adam Caparco
DiPietro Assistant Professor,
jointly appointed in
Chemical Engineering
& Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Engineering proteins and nanobiomaterials to improve sustainable agriculture and environmental biotechnology
Luca Caracoglia
Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Fluid-structure interactions
- l.caracoglia@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5186
Rebecca L. Carrier
COE Distinguished Professor,
Chemical Engineering
Intestinal tissue engineering, retinal regenerative medicine, oral drug delivery
- r.carrier@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7126
Cristian Cassella
Associate Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Acoustic resonators, nonreciprocal components, zero-power sensors for IoT, nonlinear dynamics, ultrasonic transducers
- c.cassella@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7509
Srirupa Chakraborty
Assistant Professor,
jointly appointed in
Chemical Engineering
& Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Theoretical biology and biophysics;
Computational modeling and simulations;
Structure-dynamics of complex bio-systems;
Rational design of glycoprotein-based therapeutic strategies
- s.chakraborty@northeastern.edu
- (617) 373-8258
Kenle Chen
Associate Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering
AI-driven design, heterogeneous integration, and co-design of spectrum- and energy-efficient wireless systems
Qin Jim Chen
Professor,
jointly appointed in
Civil and Environmental Engineering
& Marine and Environmental Sciences
Adaptive Coastal Intelligence and Nature-based Solutions for Climate Resilience
- q.chen@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5465
Samuel Chung
Associate Professor,
Bioengineering
Cell type-specific genetics of neuroregeneration,
Long-term longitudinal imaging at subcellular resolution,
High-speed and low-cost confocal imaging
- s.chung@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7805
Pau Closas
Associate Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Statistical and array signal processing; estimation and detection theory; Bayesian inference; stochastic filtering; robust statistics; and game theory, with applications to positioning systems (GNSS and indoor technologies); wireless communications, and mathematical biology
- closas@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3778
Arthur J. Coury
University Distinguished Professor,
Chemical Engineering
Polymeric biomaterials for medical products such as implantable electronic devices, hydrogel-based devices and drug delivery systems
- a.coury@northeastern.edu
- 617-834-9179
Ravinder Dahiya
Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Flexible printed electronics, robotics (soft robotics), electronic skin, tactile sensing, haptics, intelligent interactive systems, wearable systems
Guohao Dai
Professor,
Bioengineering
3-D bioprinting technology, stem cells technology and vascular bioengineering
- g.dai@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2207
Damilola Daramola
Assistant Professor,
jointly appointed in
Chemical Engineering
& Chemistry & Chemical Biology
Electrochemical engineering for wastewater treatment, polymer upcycling, and sustainable resource recovery
Mallesham Dasari
Assistant Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Networked systems and optimization for immersive XR and spatial computing
Benyamin Davaji
Assistant Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering
MEMS and integrated microsystems; ultrasound based sensing and computation; digital twins and AI/ML for MEMS, semiconductor manufacturing, and flexible hybrid electronics; microcalorimetry; and BioMEMS and microfluidics for microbiology and biosensor development.
- b.davaji@northeastern.edu
- (617) 373-5603
Lital Davidi
Assistant Professor,
jointly appointed in
Biology
& Bioengineering
Phyto-molecular biotechnology, with a focus on biofuels, natural products, and extreme environment adaptation
Enrique M. del Castillo
Assistant Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Computational geomechanics; granular materials and flows; failure and fracture in natural and engineered materials; geohazards impacting infrastructure resilience
Peter "James" Dennedy-Frank
Assistant Professor,
jointly appointed in
Marine and Environmental Sciences
& Civil and Environmental Engineering
Ecohydrologic modeling for water resources and conservation
- pjdf@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2426