Faculty & Staff Directory
Taskin Padir
Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Experiential robotics, human-robot teaming at the extremes, embodied artificial intelligence
- t.padir@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8114
Harikrishnan Parameswaran
Associate Professor,
Bioengineering We study cell-cell and cell-extracellular matrix interactions in the airway to understand the fundamental mechanisms that regulate airway caliber and why they fail in diseases like asthma.
- h.parameswaran@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7049
Mark Patterson
Professor,
jointly appointed in
Marine and Environmental Sciences & Civil and Environmental Engineering
Development of autonomous underwater robots for civil infrastructure and marine sensing; decision support tools for gray/green infrastructure like tide gates; environmental fluid mechanics; biomechanics and mass transfer in living systems
- m.patterson@northeastern.edu
- 781.581.7370 x313
Alireza Ramezani
Associate Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Design and development of robots with nontrivial morphologies; Analysis and closed-loop feedback design of nonlinear systems; Robot locomotion (legged & fluidic-based); Robotics-inspired biology
- a.ramezani@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4027
Carey Rappaport
COE Distinguished Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Electromagnetics, antennas, computational modeling, imaging radar hardware and alogorithms, bioelectromagnetic sensing and treatment
- c.rappaport@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2043
Purnima Ratilal-Makris
Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Remote sensing, underwater acoustics, acoustical oceanography, bioacoustics, ultrasound imaging, nonlinear scattering, wave propagation in random media, signal, image and array processing, statistical inference theory
- p.ratilal@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8458
Francesco Restuccia
Assistant Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Resilient and Efficient AI/ML, Mobile Computing, FPGAs, Embedded Systems, Wireless Networking
- f.restuccia@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3655
Matteo Rinaldi
Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Understanding and exploiting the fundamental properties of micro/nanomechanical structures and advanced nanomaterials to engineer new classes of micro and nanoelectromechanical systems (M/NEMS) with unique and enabling features applied to the areas of chemical, physical and biological sensing and low power reconfigurable radio communication systems
- m.rinaldi@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2751
Wil Robertson
Professor,
jointly appointed in
Khoury College of Computer Sciences & Electrical and Computer Engineering
Trustworthy computing architectures, web security, statistical machine learning for anomaly detection, malware analysis using adversarial program analysis, reverse engineering, intrusion detection
- w.robertson@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2136
David M. Rosen
Assistant Professor,
jointly appointed in
Electrical and Computer Engineering & Mathematics
Robotics, computer vision, machine learning, optimization, geometry and topology, probability and statistics
Sara Rouhanifard
Associate Professor,
Bioengineering Developing chemical approaches to track and quantify important RNA processing events and modifications in single cells; DNA: protein interactions that drive differences in gene expression; understanding differences in RNA expression and the impacts on disease and development
- s.rouhanifard@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2226
Jeffrey W. Ruberti
COE Distinguished Professor,
Bioengineering Tissue engineering of load-bearing matrix (bone, cornea); bioreactor design; multi-scale mechanobiochemistry; statistical mechanics; energetics microscopy; high-resolution imaging; biopolymer self-assembly
- j.ruberti@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3984
Masoud Salehi
Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies ,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Error correcting codes; information theory; digital communications
- m.salehi@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2446
Mauricio Santillana
Professor,
jointly appointed in
Physics & Electrical and Computer Engineering
Modeling of geographic patterns of population growth, modeling fluid flow to inform coastal floods simulations and atmospheric global pollution transport models, and design and implementation of disease outbreaks prediction platforms and mathematical solutions to healthcare
Mehrdad Sasani
Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Progressive collapse of structures; earthquake engineering; structural integrity and reliability; building and community resilience
- sasani@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5222
Hannah Sayre
Assistant Professor,
jointly appointed in
Chemistry and Chemical Biology & Chemical Engineering
Design photocatalysts to improve efficiency and reactivity. Understand light-activated chemical reactions with time-resolved spectroscopy.
Peter Schindler
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Discovery of novel materials for renewable energy applications using high-throughput density functional theory calculations and data-driven materials property predictions. Additional focus on surface science of thin-film growth, semiconductor fabrication, and heterogeneous catalysis.
Gunar Schirner
Associate Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Embedded computer systems; novel architectures for embedded vision; cyber-physical systems; system-level design and methodologies; hardware/software co-design
- G.Schirner@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5707
Cristina Schultz
Foley Family Assistant Professor,
jointly appointed in
Marine and Environmental Sciences & Civil and Environmental Engineering
Influence of long-term climate change and of climate variability on ocean biogeochemistry
Bahram Shafai
Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Control Systems and Signal Processing; Robust and Optimal Control, Positive Dynamic Systems, Fault Detection, Observer Theory, Robotics and Distributed Control of Multi-Agent Systems, Control of Biological Systems
- b.shafai@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2984
Shahin Shahrampour
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Machine learning, optimization and control, distributed and sequential learning, with a focus on developing computationally efficient methods for data analytics
- s.shahrampour@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5750
Thomas C. Sheahan
Executive Vice Provost,
Office of the Provost Soft ground engineering, coastal adaptation, education and training for engineers and scientists
- t.sheahan@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3995
Sandra Shefelbine
Associate Dean of Space and Special Initiatives,
Office of the Dean Multi-scale bone biomechanics–how the structure and composition of bone influences its mechanical properties; mechano-adaptation of bone and joint– how tissue responds to mechanical signals
- s.shefelbine@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3199
Max Shepherd
Assistant Professor,
jointly appointed in
Physical Therapy, Movement and Rehabilitation Sciences & Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Prosthetics and wearable robotics design and control, gait rehabilitation, preference optimization, and machine learning
Rebecca Sherbo
Assistant Professor,
jointly appointed in
Chemistry and Chemical Biology & Chemical Engineering
Electrochemical and biological ways to make important chemical products from gases and renewable energy
David A. Sherman
Assistant Professor,
jointly appointed in
Physical Therapy, Movement, and Rehabilitation Sciences & Electrical and Computer Engineering
Movement neuroscience, sensorimotor physiology, clinical research, orthopedics, rehabilitation
Weiyan Shi
Assistant Professor,
jointly appointed in
Electrical and Computer Engineering & Khoury College of Computer Sciences
Persuasive dialogues, dialogue systems, natural language processing, AI safety, machine learning, artificial intelligence
Aatmesh Shrivastava
Associate Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Ultra-low Power Circuits and Systems, Analog Computing, Precision Circuits, Hardware Security
- f.aatmesh@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2063
Milad Siami
Associate Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Sparse Sensing and Control in Cyber-Physical Networks and Robotics; Distributed Systems Theory and Applications; Network Optimization and Control; Hard Limits and Tradeoff s in Large-Scale Dynamical Networks
Michael B. Silevitch
Robert D. Black Professor, COE Distinguished Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Subsurface sensing and imaging systems, detection of explosives-related anomalies, engineered system development and engineering leadership
- m.silevitch@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3033
Hanumant Singh
Professor,
jointly appointed in
Electrical and Computer Engineering & Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Machine Learning for Fisheries, SLAM in the presence of Dynamic Moving Objects, Counter UAS methodologies , Manipulation Underwater, and Imaging in Visually Degraded Environments including underwater and in polar regions
- ha.singh@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7286
Rifat Sipahi
Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Control systems and mechatronics; stability analysis and control synthesis of dynamical systems with delays; interplay between stability, delays, and graphs; control-systems-aided human-machine systems; engineering education research; disability research; systems biology
- r.sipahi@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.6011
Nikolai Slavov
Professor,
Bioengineering Single-cell proteomics, immunology, cancer drug resistance, translational regulation, quantitative systems biology, mass spectrometry, RNA decoding, protein synthesis and degradation, macrophage polarization, neurodegenerative diseases
- n.slavov@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.6405
Seungmoon Song
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Modeling the neuromechanics of human movement and applying it to assistive devices and rehabilitation treatment
Soner Sonmezoglu
Assistant Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Integrated Circuits, Micro/Nano Electro Mechanical Systems (M/NEMS), Implantable and Wearable Medical Devices and Systems, Neural Interfaces
Eduardo Sontag
University Distinguished Professor,
jointly appointed in
Electrical and Computer Engineering & Bioengineering
Feedback control theory, systems biology, cancer, and biomedicine
Dagmar Sternad
University Distinguished Professor,
jointly appointed in
Biology & Electrical and Computer Engineering
Motor control and learning, variability and stability, virtual rehabilitation, dynamic modeling, rhythmic and discrete movements as primitives for action
- d.sternad@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5093
Milica Stojanovic
Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Wireless communications and networks, underwater acoustic transmission, statistical system characterization, adaptive signal processing
- m.stojanovic@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5112
Aron Stubbins
Professor,
jointly appointed in
Marine and Environmental Sciences, Chemistry and Chemical Biology
& Civil and Environmental Engineering
Environmental chemistry; geochemistry; the carbon cycle; freshwater, coastal and ocean biogeochemistry; feedbacks between natural biogeochemical cycles and climate change; permafrost; black carbon; aquatic microplastics
- a.stubbins@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5872
Lili Su
Assistant Professor,
Electrical & Computer Engineering Distributed machine learning, security and fault-tolerance, neural computation, bio-inspired distributed algorithms, blockchains, autonomous cars, algorithm design