Faculty & Staff Directory
Mehdi Abedi
Associate Teaching Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
- m.abedi@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4427
Emad Aboelela
Teaching Professor and Vice Chair for Undergraduate Education,
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Wireless Sensor Networks, Internet of Things, Embedded Systems, Quality-of-Service for Multimedia Networking, Computer Networks Management and Design.
- e.aboelela@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3386
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
George G. Adams
Professor Emeritus,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Contact mechanics including adhesion, friction, and plasticity; modeling and analysis of MEMS; modeling and analysis in nanomechanics
- g.adams@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3826
Michael Ahern
Associate Co-op Coordinator,
Cooperative Education
- m.ahern@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5578
Sergey Aityan
Teaching Professor,
Information and Software Engineering
Artificial Intelligence; data science; statistics, mathematical modeling, simulation, and optimization; biomedical research, economic theory; risk management
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
Rehab Ali
Assistant Teaching Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Healthcare, supply chain, food security, machine learning, blockchain, lean manufacturing, quality management, simulation and modeling
Arwa Alkhateeb
Associate Co-op Coordinator,
Cooperative Education
- a.alkhateeb@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.6836
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
Saeed Amal
Assistant Research Professor,
Bioengineering
AI and multi modal data for improving disease care, Cancer research, Cardiovascular disease research, Artificial intelligence including deep learning and machine learning for healthcare, natural language processing (NLP) and image processing for healthcare, recommender systems for healthcare
Christopher Amato
Affiliated Faculty,
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Robotics
- c.amato@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5807
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
Parisa Andalib
Associate Research Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering
- p.andalib@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5185
Teiichi Ando
Professor Emeritus,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Thermodynamics and kinetics of materials, high strain-rate powder processing, modeling of rapid solidification
Javier Apfeld
Affiliated Faculty,
jointly appointed in
Bioengineering
& Chemical Engineering
Our goal is to determine how the brain regulates aging and resilience to stress.
- j.apfeld@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4495
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
Joseph Ayers
Affiliated Faculty,
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
Omar Badreldin
Associate Teaching Professor and Associate Director,
Information and Software Engineering
predicting software evolution using a variety of approaches, including software quality predictive analysis, with the goal of enhancing upfront software designs, and enabling effective continuous design refactoring
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
Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
Affiliated Faculty,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
- a.barabasi@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7774
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.
Sumner Barenberg
Professor of the Practice,
Bioengineering
Design Medical Implants; Medical Implant Due Diligence; Biomaterials, Biopolymers, Biomemetics, Polymer Physics; Biodegradation; Interfacial Phenomena, Chemotaxis, Accelerated Aging
- s.barenberg@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7805
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
Maureen Basmajian
Senior Co-op Coordinator,
Cooperative Education
- m.basmajian@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5240
Nicole Batrouny
Assistant Teaching Professor,
First Year Engineering Program
Engineering education; decision making; engineering design process, especially novice engineers; social implications of and within engineering
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