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
Bipin Rajendran
Professor,
Intelligent Networked Systems Institute
hardware–software co-design, novel devices and architectures, neuromorphic algorithms
Alireza Ramezani
Associate Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Design, Modeling and Control of Bioinspired Locomotion Robots
- 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
Artificial Intelligence, Computer Networks, Cyber-Physical Systems
- f.restuccia@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3655
Matteo Rinaldi
Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering
MEMS, piezoelectric and acoustic devices for sensing, RF, and semiconductor 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. Elucidate light-activated chemical reaction mechanisms 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
- Optimization and Control
- Multi-Agent Systems
- Machine Learning
- Reinforcement Learning
- s.shahrampour@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5750
Thomas C. Sheahan
Executive Vice Provost,
Office of the Provost
Geotechnical testing and soil characterization for infrastructure and sustainability applications.
- t.sheahan@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3995
Sandra Shefelbine
Senior Associate Dean of Strategic 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
Wearable robotics and machine learning for personalized gait rehabilitation systems
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
Distributed optimization and learning for networked cyber-physical systems
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
Osvaldo Simeone
Professor,
Intelligent Networked Systems Institute
Information theory, Quantum information processing, Machine learning, Neuromorphic computing, Wireless communications
Hanumant Singh
Professor,
jointly appointed in
Electrical and Computer Engineering
, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
& Institute of Experiential Robotics
Geometric and Machine Learning based methods for mapping, SLAM and field deployments of Unmanned Aerial, Marine and Ground vehicles in extreme environments
- ha.singh@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7286
Rifat Sipahi
Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
control theory and network control for autonomous and human-in-the-loop systems (robotics, transportation, manufacturing)
- r.sipahi@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.6011
Nikolai Slavov
COE Distinguished Professor,
Bioengineering
Single-cell proteomics, immunology, cancer drug resistance, translational regulation, quantitative systems biology, mass spectrometry, RNA decoding, protein synthesis and degradation, macrophage polarization, aging, 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
Computational motor neuroscience, human movement control and learning, human-robot interaction, and clinical applications
- 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