Faculty & Staff Directory
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;
Diversity and equity in engineering
- r.willits@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2989
Monica Wing
Grants Manager of Pre Award,
Administrative Resource Center - m.wing@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8310
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,
Multidisciplinary Masters Co-op Programs - ka.wong@northeastern.edu
- 206.467.5480
Megan Woodbury
Postdoctoral Research Associate,
PROTECT Prenatal exposures and neurodevelopment, neurotoxicology, environmental epidemiology, environmental health, public health, endocrine disrupting chemicals, drugs and supplements, interactive effects of exposures
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
Kimberly Wright
Academic Advisor and Program Manager, Silicon Valley,
Graduate School of Engineering 
Mingzhong Wu
Professor,
jointly appointed in
Physics & Electrical and Computer Engineering
Topological quantum materials, magnetic thin films, spin transport, spin torque, spin waves, and ferromagnetic resonance
Wei Xie
Assistant 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
Assistant 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-AI/robot teaming, automation and AI in engineering, training and assistive technology
Adetoun Yeaman
Assistant Teaching Professor,
First Year Engineering Program Empathy in engineering, design education, character education, community engagement and multimedia learning
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 Department Chair,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Networked machine learning;
networking and systems for data-intensive engineering, science, health applications;
caching, edge computing;
wireless network optimization;
coding for low latency, network coding, polar codes;
interdependent networks, cascading failure, information dissemination; network economics.
- eyeh@ece.northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5400
Roi Yehoshua
Assistant Teaching Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering - r.yehoshua@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2462
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 Optoelectronic and mechanical properties of quantum materials, van der Waals heterostructures, engineering light-matter interactions, ultrafast optical and THz spectroscopy, THz-induced phenomena, coherent control of material properties
Chen-Hsiang "Jones" Yu
Teaching Professor,
Multidisciplinary Graduate Engineering Programs HCI (Human-Computer Interaction), AI on mobiles, web customization and automation, readability enhancement
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 Federated data analytics, Bayesian optimization, continuous optimization, Gaussian processes, deep learning
Adel A. Zadeh
Teaching Professor,
College of Professional Studies organizational transformation, change leadership, AI in project management, agile project management, construction management, sustainable construction, and green buildings
Victor Zappi
Affiliated Faculty,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Computational Acoustics, Digital Musical Instruments, Speech Synthesis, Virtual Reality
- v.zappi@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4060