Faculty & Staff Directory
Rachel Walsh-Peterson
Senior Co-op Coordinator & Assistant Director,
Cooperative Education
- ra.walsh@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4302
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
Lei Wang
Assistant Professor,
jointly appointed in
Bioengineering
& Biology
Synthetic biology and microfluidic systems for disease modeling, regenerative medicine and therapeutic development
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
Ning Wang
Professor,
Bioengineering
Mechanobiology and mechanomedicine investigating mechanomemory in cancer and stem cell systems
Qi “Ryan” Wang
Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Research,
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Urban and social resilience; geo-social networking; coupled, human-natural systems, natural disaster response and evacuation; urban computing
- q.wang@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7984
Yafeng Wang
Assistant Teaching Professor,
jointly appointed in
Philosophy and Religion
& First Year Engineering Program
Yanzhi Wang
Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Real-time and energy-efficient deep learning and artificial intelligence systems, model compression of deep neural networks (DNNs), neuromorphic computing and non-von Neumann computing paradigms
- yanz.wang@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8805
Meni Wanunu
Professor,
jointly appointed in
Physics
& Bioengineering
Our group investigates biomolecules at the single-molecule level. We develop nanopore-based and other nanotechnology-based methods for probing the structure and dynamic behavior of biomolecules. We employ optical waveguides and single-molecule enzymatic approaches for RNA sequencing, and utilize engineered nanopore sensors for applications in single-molecule proteomics. We are experimentalists, but we also use advanced computational tools to perform big data analysis.
- m.wanunu@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7412
Joseph Weber
Associate Teaching Professor and Director of Global Programs,
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Irvine W. Wei
Professor Emeritus,
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Ozonation & Chlorination of Water, Advanced Oxidation Processes, Chemical Precipitation & Coagulation, Kinetics & Mechanism of Chemical Processes
- i.wei@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3368
Jing-Ke Weng
Professor,
jointly appointed in
Chemistry & Chemical Biology
& Bioengineering
Plant biochemistry, agricultural biotechnology, food allergy, drug discovery
Richard West
Professor and Associate Chair for Research,
Chemical Engineering
AI and automated mechanism generation for sustainable fuels, catalysis, and combustion chemistry
- r.west@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5163
Richard Whalen
Director & Teaching Professor,
First Year Engineering Program
Engineering Education, Evidence-Based Teaching, Pedagogy, Assessment, Thermo-fluids Engineering, Microscale Heat Transfer, Numerical Modeling of Laser Welding of Plastics, Thermal Effects in Nonlinear Optical Material
- r.whalen@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4706
Paul Whitford
Affiliated Faculty,
jointly appointed in
Bioengineering
& Chemical Engineering
dynamics of large-scale molecular machines, working to identify the physical principles that guide biomolecular dynamics, using molecular simulation approaches to interpret experimental data from a wide range of techniques, including biochemical, small-angle X-ray scattering and cryogenic electron microscopy
- p.whitford@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2952
John “Peter” Whitney
Associate Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Human-safe robots, medical robotics, soft robotics and soft material manufacturing, MEMS, microrobotics, bio-inspired design, flapping aerodynamics and insect flight
- j.whitney@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3427
Ronald J. Willey
Professor Emeritus,
Chemical Engineering
Process safety education
High pressure chemical processes
Mark Williams
Affiliated Faculty,
Bioengineering
single molecule biophysics, molecular biophysics
- ma.williams@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5705
Rebecca Willits
Professor and Chairperson,
Chemical Engineering
Mechanobiology of neural systems;
Systems for nerve regeneration;
Inclusive workforce development
- r.willits@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2989
Beth A. Winkelstein
Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs,
Office of the Provost
mechanisms of bodily injury and pain – especially injuries from sports, automobile accidents, and/or degenerative diseases
Raimond Winslow
Professor,
jointly appointed in
Bioengineering
, Khoury College of Computer Sciences
& Clinical and Rehabilitation Sciences
Computational modeling of the cardiac myocyte to understand the molecular basis of arrhythmias; machine learning in critical care medicine to identify those patients who require urgent care
Kathy Wong
Assistant Co-op Coordinator, Seattle,
Information and Software Engineering
- ka.wong@northeastern.edu
- 206.467.5480
Benjamin Woolston
Assistant Professor,
Chemical Engineering
Metabolic engineering and synthetic biology for sustainable biochemical production and human health
- b.woolston@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5560
Mingzhong Wu
Professor,
jointly appointed in
Physics
& Electrical and Computer Engineering
Spintronic and magnonic devices for computing, memory, and microwave applications
Wei Xie
Associate Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Interpretable AI, IoT, computer simulation, data integrity and big data analytics, data-driven stochastic optimization, blockchain design and development for complex end-to-end cyber-physical system learning and risk management with applications, including biopharmaceutical manufacturing and supply chains, smart power grids with renewable energy, and health care
- w.xie@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.6917
Xiaolin Xu
Associate Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Security, Machine Learning, AI Security/Privacy, Energy-efficient Deep Learning, Computer Architecture, FPGA, Embedded Systems, VLSI
Mathew Yarossi
Assistant Professor,
jointly appointed in
Physical Therapy, Movement and Rehabilitation Sciences
& Electrical and Computer Engineering
Movement neuroscience, motor physiology, clinical research, physiological signal processing, and biomechanics
Mohammad Abbas Yaseen
Assistant Professor,
Bioengineering
Advanced microscopy for minimally invasive, in vivo characterization of brain function
- m.yaseen@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8584
Yasin Yazicioglu
Assistant Professor,
jointly appointed in
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
& Electrical and Computer Engineering
Multi-robot systems, planning and control, distributed autonomy
- y.yazicioglu@northeastern.edu
- (617) 373-4856
Gilbert Ye
Assistant Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Human-machine systems and embodied AI for civil infrastructure systems and workforce
- y.ye@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8021
Mishac K. Yegian
COE Distinguished Professor Emeritus,
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Geotechnical earthquake engineering; soil dynamics; geosynthetics; seismic response of landfills; base isolation; liquefaction; bridge engineering; use of shaking table in earthquake engineering
- m.yegian@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2448
Edmund Yeh
Professor and Chair,
Electrical and Computer Engineering
AI/machine learning, wireless communication networks, Internet, content distribution networks, edge computing, image and video processing.
- e.yeh@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5400
Sze Zheng Yong
Associate Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Control, estimation, planning, learning and analysis of hybrid systems, with
applications to autonomous, robotic and cyber-physical dynamic systems
and their safety, robustness and resilience.
Yoseob Yoon
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Ultrafast spectroscopy and coherent control of quantum materials through engineered light-matter interactions
Yuan Yuan
Assistant Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering
optoelectronic devices, single-photon detection, silicon photonics, large-scale photonic integrated circuits for interconnects and computing
Xubo Yue
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
AI and Statistical Learning for Smart Manufacturing