Faculty & Staff Directory
Lorenzo Torresani
Affiliated Faculty,
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Computer Vision, Artificial intelligence, Machine learning
Ali Touran
Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Risk assessment; construction cost/schedule uncertainty; project delivery systems; simulation; construction productivity
- a.touran@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5508
Geoffrey C. Trussell
Chair and Doherty Professor ,
Marine and Environmental Sciences
Evolutionary and community ecology; coastal sustainability
- g.trussell@northeastern.edu
- (781) 581-7370
Eugene Tunik
Affiliated Faculty,
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Human motor control / learning, neurorehabilitation neuroscience, brain stimulation, brain imaging, virtual reality
- e.tunik@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2924
Josie Unger Flanagan
Associate Co-op Coordinator,
Cooperative Education
- j.flanagan@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3429
Moneesh Upmanyu
Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Computational techniques that span multiple scales, atomic- to continuum, to quantify the structure property relations in established and emerging material systems, both in technology and nature
- mupmanyu@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3186
Muhammad Usama
Postdoctoral Research Associate,
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Traffic Emission Modelling, Active Transportation, Intelligent Transportation Systems.
Amir Vahabikashi
Assistant Professor,
Bioengineering
Cell and nucleus mechanobiology, soft bioelectronics for organoid/tissue scale mechanobiology and regenerative engineering, mechanotransduction, implantable bioelectronics
Kiran Vanaja
Assistant Research Professor,
Bioengineering
Systems biology of signaling networks in cancer (and) therapeutics, metastasis and embryonic development
Julia Varshavsky
Assistant Professor,
jointly appointed in
Department of Health Sciences
& Civil and Environmental Engineering
Human health impacts of environmental pollutants and interventions to protect susceptible and highly exposed populations
- j.varshavsky@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7348
Carmine Vittoria
COE Distinguished Professor Emeritus,
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Elemagnetic wave propagation in anisotropic media, physics of magnetism, high tc superconductors and weak link devices, and ferrites and composites magnetic metal alloys and magnetic superlattices miniature microwave circuits.
- c.vittoria@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2061
Sara Wadia-Fascetti
Professor and Vice Provost of PhD Network,
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Condition assessment methodologies for infrastructure systems; life cycle and life span analysis; structural and earthquake engineering uncertainty
- s.wadia-fascetti@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5828
Jacob Walker
Senior Co-op Coordinator & Assistant Director,
Cooperative Education
- jw.walker@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5393
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