Faculty & Staff Directory
Laura H. Lewis
Distinguished University and Cabot Professor,
jointly appointed in
Chemical Engineering
& Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Structure-property relationships in magnetofunctional materials for energy transformations including advanced permanent magnet materials and magnetocaloric materials; strategic materials and supply chains for technological application
- lhlewis@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3419
Xian Li
Assistant Teaching Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Assistive and Wearable Robotics; Human-Robot Interaction and Collaboration; Wearable Electronics; Cyber-Physical Systems; Smart Health
Yaning Li
Associate Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Mechanics of materials and structures, Architected materials and metamaterials, Bio-Inspired Engineering, Additive manufacturing, AI-aided design
- y.li@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3027
Yanjing Li
Associate Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering
AI and optimization for secure IoT and cyber-physical systems
Maijia Liao
Affiliated Faculty,
Bioengineering
Quantitative Neuroscience, Cell Mechanics, Cytoskeleton in Neurons, Biotransport, Advanced Imaging Method, Physics of Living Matter
Elizabeth Libby
Assistant Professor,
Bioengineering
Synthetic biology, microbiology, biosensor development
Hongfei Lin
Arthur W. Zafiropoulo Professor,
Chemical Engineering
developing AI-driven catalysis for sustainable manufacturing, critical materials recovery, and clean energy
Xue "Shelley" Lin
Associate Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Robust and Secure Machine Learning; Deep Learning on the Edge; Cyber-Physical Systems
- xue.lin@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4030
Yingzi Lin
COE Distinguished Professor and Chair,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Human-machine systems, human factors, biosensing and smart systems, human state and behavior modeling, transportation safety, healthcare and patient safety, human-friendly mechatronics, and human-robot interaction
- MIE-Chair@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8610
Jeffrey Ian Lipton
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Robotics, 3D Printing, and Mechanical Metamaterials with applications in Manufacturing
Handan Liu
Teaching Professor,
Information and Software Engineering
My research focuses on scalable AI systems and efficient large language models through high-performance computing and distributed machine learning.
- h.liu@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5424
Shang Liu
Assistant Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Air pollutant origin, transport, and formation; aerosol chemistry, physics, and optics; indoor air quality
- shang.liu@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4641
Yongmin Liu
Professor,
jointly appointed in
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
& Electrical and Computer Engineering
Nano optics, nanoscale materials and engineering, nano devices, plasmonics, metamaterials, and applied physics
- y.liu@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4457
Carol Livermore
Associate Professor and Director of Operations,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
MEMS-enabled actuator systems (assistive technologies, energy harvesting, and flow control); origami-enabled microfluidics and tissue engineering; carbon nanomaterials
- livermore@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4922
Fabrizio Lombardi
ITC Endowed Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Fault-tolerant computing, VLSI CAD, testing, configurable computing, distributed systems
- F.Lombardi@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4854
Georgia Looney
Associate Co-op Coordinator,
Cooperative Education
- g.looney@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3340
Francis Loth
Professor,
jointly appointed in
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
& Bioengineering
Biological flows, experimental fluid mechanics, computational fluid mechanics, blood flow simulation, cerebrospinal fluid simulation, Chiari malformation, syringomyelia, medical image processing, magnetic resonance imaging
- f.loth@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8232
Jennifer Love
Associate Teaching Professor and Associate Director,
Michael B. Silevitch and Claire J. Duggan Center for STEM Education
preK-20 engineering education, STEAM, makerspace, project-based learning, teacher professional development
- j.love@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3551
Mingyang Lu
Associate Professor,
Bioengineering
Computational systems biology, an integration of mathematical modeling and bioinformatics for studying gene regulatory networks, single cell genomics, epithelial-mesenchymal transition, coarse-graining, reverse engineering, machine learning, stochasticity and heterogeneity in gene expression
Kimberly Lurie
Assistant Co-op Coordinator,
Cooperative Education
- k.lurie@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3763
Steve Lustig
Associate Professor,
Chemical Engineering
Design and manipulation of molecular/materials chemistry and structure for new property discovery, new functionality and technology development by combining theoretical and experimental methods; high performance computing, quantum chemistry, statistical mechanics, polymer physics, materials and biomolecular engineering
- s.lustig@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5900
David Luzzi
Senior Vice Provost and Vice President for Business Development,
SVP and VP
Research leadership, including complex multi-investigator and multi-institutional programs, research administration, compliance, development, finance, and technology transition. Review leader of multi-billion-dollar nation-scale research enterprises.
- d.luzzi@northeastern.edu
- 857-445-1105
Tong Ma
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Dynamics, Control, and AI for Automation
Kayse Lee Maass
Associate Professor and Director of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Stochastic optimization, network theory, facility location modeling, and supply chain design for applications regarding equity, access, human trafficking, mental health, and humanitarian logistics
- k.maass@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3629
Robin MacIlroy
Associate Co-op Coordinator,
Cooperative Education
- r.macilroy@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5765
Hessam Mahdavifar
Associate Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Coding and information theory, wireless communications, data privacy and security, privacy-preserving computing and learning
Bala Maheswaran
COE Distinguished Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering and First Year Engineering Program
Current Research: Experiential Engineering Education via Innovation and Invention. Focus on the Technical Design, Energy System, and Medical Engineering (MedEng) Design Innovations via Prototyping and Proof of Concept.
Past Research: High-Temperature Superconductors, Two-Dimensional Electron Gas, and Engineering Physics Education.
- b.maheswaran@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5905
Lee Makowski
Professor,
jointly appointed in
Bioengineering
& Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Image and signal processing as applied to biophysical data designed to answer fundamental questions about the molecular basis of living systems, and progression of Alzheimer's Disease
- l.makowski@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3006
Craig Maloney
Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Undergraduate Education,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Theory, simulation, and modeling of disordered materials and soft matter systems.
- c.maloney@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.6255
Edwin Marengo
Associate Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Electromagnetic theory and wavefield imaging
- e.marengo@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3358
Tucker Marion
Associate Professor,
jointly appointed in
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group
& Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
New product development process, lean processes for innovation, IT and design tools, sourcing and cost engineering
- t.marion@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2241
Julius Marpaung
Teaching Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Computer Architecture, Engineering & Law, Intellectual Property Law
Tugce Martagan
Associate Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Stochastic modeling and optimization, Markov decision processes, and game theory with applications in the (bio)pharmaceutical industry
Jose Martinez Lorenzo
Professor,
jointly appointed in
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
& Electrical and Computer Engineering
Devices, circuits and sensing; antenna analysis, modeling, design, and optimization; subsurface scattering analysis; computational methods of electromagnetics; novel radar system specification and design; explosives detection
- j.martinez-lorenzo@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.6835
Marguerite Matherne
Associate Teaching Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
- m.matherne@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4668
Nicol McGruer
Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering
MEMS, NEMS, RF MEMS; nanotechnology; micro/nanofabrication; microsystems; microrelay; nanoswitch; microspectrometer; microfluidics; organic FETs, organic solar cells
- n.mcgruer@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2066
Stephen W. McKnight
Professor Emeritus,
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Submillimeter devices and materials, optical and infrared materials and systems, magnetic materials, engineering education.
Hugh McManus
Associate Teaching Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
- h.mcmanus@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4665