Annual Report
2024-2025
The College of Engineering continues to make extraordinary strides — advancing solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges through innovation, collaboration, and the drive of our remarkable students, faculty, and partners.
This past year has been defined by groundbreaking research, transformative learning experiences, and an ever-growing impact that reaches far beyond campus. Together, we are shaping a more sustainable, connected, and equitable world through engineering.
I invite you to explore our digital annual report to discover more of the stories, people, and achievements that make Northeastern’s College of Engineering such an exceptional community.
Gregory D. Abowd
Dean, Northeastern University College of Engineering
Top Stories
Eduardo Sontag, university distinguished professor of ECE/BioE, was elected a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
The College of Engineering at Northeastern University is pleased to announce sixteen early career grants awarded to faculty during the 2024-2025 academic year.
Enrollment, Outcomes, and Programs
Total Enrollment (fall 2024)
63% graduate, 37% undergraduate
MS Enrollment Growth (fall 2020 to 2024)
PhD Enrollment Growth (fall 2020 to 2024)
First-year fall 2024 undergraduate students are women (up from 34% in 2020)
Students are employed or in graduate school within nine months of graduation (Class of 2024)
Engineering departments and teaching units
Degrees, minors, and graduate certificates
Undergraduates participated in a global experience (Class of 2024)
Experiential Learning
Total co-op hires (AY2025)
60% undergraduate, 40% graduate
Co-op employer partners (AY2023-2025)
Students are offered a job by a previous co-op employer (Class of 2024)
Research and Faculty Recognition
Tenured/tenure-track faculty
10 new in AY2025-2026, including 119 hired since AY2018
Early career awards
including 81 NSF CAREER awards and 24 DOD early career awards
Professional society fellowships
Patents (2018 to Oct 2025)
External research awards (FY2025), up 36% vs FY2020
Development and Alumni
Gifts (FY2020-2024)
Alumni (2025)
New Faculty
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Beth A. Winkelstein joined Northeastern University in August 2025 as Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and as a professor in bioengineering. |
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Yonina Eldar joined the electrical and computer engineering department in August 2025 as a Professor and Joseph E. Aoun Chair. |
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Hongfei Lin joined Northeastern in July 2025 as the Arthur W. Zafiropoulo professor of chemical engineering. |
NEW Dual MS with UC Dublin
University College Dublin and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northeastern launched a double MS in sustainability engineering leadership, which will enable students to study in both Boston and Dublin to address the global demand for sustainability expertise in engineering.
Academy Members and Fellows of Professional Societies
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Gregory D. Abowd, dean of the College of Engineering and ECE professor, was elected a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in the area of Computer Sciences. Abowd also received the Association of Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (ACM SIGCHI) Special Recognition Award “for his extraordinary ability to inspire and mentor individuals from diverse backgrounds and his commitment to fostering collaboration, creativity, and impact.” |
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Abraham Joy, BioE professor and chair, has been inducted into the 2025 Class of the AIMBE College of Fellows “for seminal innovations in the design, fabrication and translation of synthetic biomimetic biomaterials into novel therapeutic and diagnostic medical products.” |
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ECE Distinguished Professor Nian Sun and William Lincoln Smith Professor Tommaso Melodia were selected as Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Sun was also selected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society by the Topical Group on Magnetism and its Applications (GMAG) for his innovations in high magnetization materials, magnetoelastic and magnetoelectric thin film materials, microsystems, and device physics. |
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ECE/Khoury Professor Yun Raymond Fu was elected a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence for significant contributions to transformative technology innovation in computer vision, augmented human-machine interaction, and leadership in AI technology commercialization. |
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Bouvé/ChE University Distinguished Professor Mansoor Amiji was elected as an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2024 Fellow in the Pharmaceutical Sciences section for distinguished contributions in pharmaceutical sciences with a specific focus on targeted drug delivery for a variety of diseases including cancer, inflammatory diseases, and CNS diseases. |
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BioE Professor Guohao Dai was selected as a Fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) for contributions in vascular mechanobiology, 3D bioprinting vascular networks for tissue engineering, regenerative medicine applications, and transcriptional regulation of arterial venous vascular differentiation in health and diseases. |
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ECE Professor Hossein Mosallaei was selected as an Optica Fellow (formerly OSA) for outstanding contributions in active and time-modulated optical nanoantennas and metasurfaces. |
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Carrier Selected as Fellow of the Controlled Release Society ChE Distinguished Professor Rebecca Carrier was elevated to the College of Fellows of the Controlled Release Society. |
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Lustig Named Senior Member of National Academy of Inventors ChE Associate Professor Steve Lustig was selected as a National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Senior Member. |
Faculty Honors
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Jerome Hajjar, the CEE University Distinguished and CDM Smith Professor (and former chair), was honored with three prestigious awards in 2025: the William H. Wisely American Civil Engineer Award for his exceptional leadership in advancing civil engineering education and his work on resilient and sustainable steel and composite structures, including computational analysis and earthquake engineering; the BSCES College Educator Award from the Boston Society of Civil Engineers Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers for his inspirational teaching and mentorship of students; and the Structural Stability Research Council (SSRC) Distinguished Member Award, which recognizes his years of active service and outstanding contributions to the organization’s mission, highlighting his significant impact across the profession, academia, and specialized research. |
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ECE University Distinguished Professor Ali Abur received the 2025 IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) Charles Concordia Power Systems Engineering Award “for contributions to power system state and network model estimation.” |
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ECE Professor Matteo Rinaldi received the IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium (IFCS) 2025 Walter G. Cady Award for his technical contributions in the area of piezoelectric frequency control devices. |
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ECE Associate Professor Sarah Ostadabbas received the 2024 Cade Prize for Inventivity in the technology category for AiWover, a groundbreaking spin-off from her lab that uses AI to transform visual monitoring of babies and toddlers and enhances both safety and developmental tracking. |
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MIE Distinguished Professor Yiannis Levendis is the recipient of the 2025 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Robert G. Quinn Award in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the promotion of excellence in experimentation and laboratory instruction. |
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ECE Assistant Professor Xiaolin Xu was named a recipient of the 2025 IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC) Under-40 Innovators Award. |
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ECE Associate Professor Cristian Cassella is the recipient of the European Frequency and Time Forum (EFTF) Young Scientist Award “for his seminal research on metamaterials in RF microacoustics as well as for his pioneering contributions on long-range remote sensors and lower-noise frequency generators through parametric nonlinearities.” |
Student Successes
| Current students and alumni were recipients of the 2025 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Awards. Four were offered awards and sixteen received honorable mentions. This prestigious program recognizes outstanding graduate students who have demonstrated the potential to be high achieving scientists and engineers early in their careers. | |
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Matthew Coughlin, E’25, mechanical engineering, has been named a Knight-Hennessy Scholar at Stanford University, becoming the fifth Husky to receive the prestigious fully-funded graduate scholarship. |
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Aleksei Krotov, PhD’25, bioengineering, advised by COS/ECE University Distinguished Professor Dagmar Sternad, received first place in the 2025 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting Student E-Poster Competition in the Brain and Behavior category. |
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The Northeastern University student chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) was selected as an Outstanding Student Chapter for the 2023 – 2024 school year. |
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RoboTwin, technology that could enable human workers to seamlessly collaborate in real time with robotic systems from anywhere in the world over non-specialized networks, earned the Best Demo Award at HotMobile 2025. |
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Negar Asadi, PhD ’26, interdisciplinary engineering, under the supervision of CEE/Khoury Assistant Professor Fatemeh Ghoreishi, received the Best Paper Finalist Award at the 2025 AIAA SciTech Forum. |
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Shaobo Yang, PhD’24, bioengineering, advised by BioE Associate Professor Chiara Bellini, published research on “Non-Pathogenic E. Coli Displaying Decoy-Resistant IL18 Mutein Boosts Anti-Tumor and CAR NK Cell Responses” in Nature Biotechnology. |
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As part of their capstone project, bioengineering students developed Flextab, a circular silicon-based tab that replaces stickers on an electrocardiogram (EKG), after learning about healthcare professionals’ needs in rural Maine working with the Roux Institute at Northeastern. |
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Nazira Cisse, E’24, environmental engineering, received a Graduate Education for Minorities (GEM) PhD Engineering Fellowship, which funds graduate studies in science and engineering for outstanding students from underrepresented communities. |
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2025 AHA Predoctoral Fellowship Selina Banerjee, PhD’26, chemical engineering, won an American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship for her neurovascular organ chip project. |
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Natalee Barber, E’26, industrial engineering, received the Harold and Inge Marcus Scholarship from the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) in recognition of her academic achievement and campus leadership. |
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Madeline Szoo, E’25, chemical engineering and biochemistry, was awarded a Stabile Scholarship from Tau Beta Pi, a prestigious engineering honor society, which supports students based on their academic work, campus leadership, and service, as well as their promise of future contributions to the engineering profession. |
PhD Spotlights
Kyla Drewry, PhD'25, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Kyla Drewry, PhD'25, civil and environmental engineering, researched access to safe drinking water supplied by private wells. She presented at various conferences, was published in Environmental Science and Technology, and is starting a full time position in fall 2025 as a water resources engineer.
Lluvia "Weijia" Jing, PhD'25, Industrial Engineering
Lluvia "Weijia" Jing, PhD'25, industrial engineering, focused on optimizing global humanitarian supply chains. As part of a multi-year collaboration with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Jing led the development of advanced models to support decision-making for both pre- and post-disaster planning strategies in regions affected by food insecurity.
John Moody, PhD'25, Civil and Environmental Engineering
John Moody, PhD'25, civil and environmental engineering, focused his research on improving the maintenance of urban rail systems, designing strategies to increase available time for maintenance activities and frameworks to quantify and act on the trade-offs between maintenance and revenue of passenger-carrying service.
Duschia Bodet, PhD'25, Electrical Engineering
Duschia Bodet, PhD'25, electrical engineering, conducts research at the forefront of wireless communications with a focus on modulation techniques and beam control for sub-terahertz, multiple antenna systems. In addition to being published, she won Best Paper Award at GLOBECOM and received the Paul Baran Young Scholar Award from the Marconi Society.
Ruyi Ding, PhD'25, Computer Engineering
Ruyi Ding, PhD'25, computer engineering, focuses his research on the intersection of artificial intelligence security and hardware security, following a software–hardware co design paradigm. In fall 2025, Ding will join the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Louisiana State University as an assistant professor.
Justin Hayes, PhD'25, Chemical Engineering
Justin Hayes, PhD'25, chemical engineering, focuses on understanding how gut microbial metabolism impacts human health. He is an inventor on the pending patent and founder and CEO of Concordance Therapeutics Inc. He was awarded the Northeastern University chapter of the National Academy of Inventors Student Innovation Impact Award.
Turner Jennings, PhD'25, Mechanical Engineering
Turner Jennings, PhD'25, mechanical engineering, authored a dissertation on improving helmet impact response that focused on using granular materials instead of polymeric foams to absorb impact energy. Following graduation, Jennings joined Northeastern as a postdoctoral research associate.
Aria Masoomi, PhD'24, Computer Engineering, and Mathematics
Aria Masoomi, PhD'24, computer engineering, and PhD'24, mathematics, focused his dissertation research for computer engineering on "Making Deep Neural Networks Transparent." His mathematics thesis was "Poisson Geometry of Flag Varieties and Representation Theory of Their Quantum Deformation."
Joseph Rodriguez, PhD'25, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Joseph Rodriguez, PhD'25, civil and environmental engineering, conducted research funded by the Department of Energy on developing AI-based control strategies to improve transit reliability and efficiency. The proposed strategies and technologies have the potential to transform how frontline transit staff deliver service.
Narges Yazdani, PhD'24, Bioengineering
Narges Yazdani, PhD'24, bioengineering, focused her research on integrin-mediated mechanotransduction and its effects on neural stem cell behavior. Her work contributed to peer-reviewed publications and presentations at conferences and had a co-op at AbbVie Bioresearch Center.
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