Faculty & Staff Directory

Ruobing Bai
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Research focus in the Bai group includes:
Solid mechanics and large deformation; Damage, fracture, fatigue, debonding, strengthening, toughening, and adhesion; Stimuli-responsive actuation and instability; Soft active materials and sustainable materials; Multi-physics of materials: mechanics, thermodynamics, chemistry, optics, and electromagnetism
- 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
Professor and Director of Global Programs,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Wireless networks; ad hoc networks; underwater and terrestrial sensor networking; protocol design and testing
- basagni@ece.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 - Oakland,
First Year Engineering Program Engineering education; decision making; engineering design process, especially novice engineers; social implications of and within engineering

Mehdi Behroozi
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Geographic resource allocation, logistics, scheduling, multimodal transport systems, shared mobility, decentralized systems and resilient networks, data visualization, computational social science; Data-driven robust optimization, computational geometry, geometric probability theory, and geospatial analysis.
- m.behroozi@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2032

R. Edward Beighley
Professor and Associate Chair for Faculty,
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

Deanna Beirne
Senior Director of Research Computing and Technology Transfer,
jointly appointed in Gordon-CenSSIS, ALERT & Gordon Institute of Engineering Leadership - d.beirne@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3473

Chiara Bellini
Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies,
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

Sidi A. Bencherif
Assistant Research Professor,
Chemical Engineering polymer chemistry and engineering; biomaterials; biomedical engineering; drug delivery; tissue engineering; regenerative medicine; immunotherapy; immunoengineering; vaccines
- s.bencherif@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7103

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
- bernal@coe.northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4417

Elena Bernal Mor
Assistant Teaching Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering - e.bernalmor@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3895

Penny Beuning
Affiliated Faculty,
Bioengineering chemical biology and biotechnology; DNA replication and repair; enzyme function
- p.beuning@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2865

Sujit Bhandari
Laboratory Manager,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Large-scale structural testing
- su.bhandari@northeastern.edu
- (781) 238-8419

Timothy Bickmore
Affiliated Faculty,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Human-Computer Interaction, Health Informatics, Dialog systems, Conversational agents
- t.bickmore@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5477

John Bleakney
Associate Co-op Coordinator,
Cooperative Education - j.bleakney@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4418

Martha Bogaty
Senior Financial Analyst of Grants,
Administrative Resource Center - m.bogaty@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8692

Laurie Bowater
Senior Associate Director of Gift Planning,
Development and Alumni Affairs - l.bowater@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5627

John Bowen
Assistant VP of Advancement,
Development and Alumni Affairs - j.bowen@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4944

David Brady
Teaching Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering - d.brady@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.6992

Kurt Braun
Senior Laboratory Technician,
Civil and Environmental Engineering - k.braun@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5931

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

Nicholas Brown
Associate Teaching Professor,
Multidisciplinary Graduate Engineering Programs - ni.brown@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5621