Timothy Lannin
Teaching Professor and Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies,
Bioengineering
Contact
- t.lannin@northeastern.edu
- 360 Huntington Ave
Boston, MA 02115
Office
- 342 Snell Engineering
- 617.373.7805
About
Tim Lannin joined the Bioengineering Department as a teaching faculty in Fall 2017 and teaches numerous courses including Transport and Fluids for Bioengineers, Capstone Design, and Biomaterials. Prior to joining Northeastern, he taught for a year as a visitor at Lafayette College Mechanical Engineering, and prior to that, he completed his PhD at Cornell’s Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering under the advisement of Dr. Brian Kirby with the support of an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. His research included work on automating image analysis of cancer cells, measuring the electrical properties of cancer cells to use electric fields to separate them from blood cells, and measuring the electrical properties of algae cells to optimize their output for biofuels.
Education
- PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Cornell, 2016
Honors & Awards
- MathWorks Fellow
Department Research Areas
Nov 07, 2025
Northeastern Nominates 6 COE Students for Prestigious Knight-Hennessy Scholarship
Druhi Bhargava, E’24, computer engineering; Amanda Ferrante, E’26, bioengineering and biochemistry; Kevin Giordano, E’26, mechanical engineering and physics; Victoria Robbins, E’22, chemical engineering; Nishita Roy, E’26, bioengineering, and Zhenming Yang, E’26, electrical and computer engineering were were six of nine nominated by Northeastern for the Knight-Hennessy Scholarship, which develops a community of future global leaders to address complex challenges through collaboration and innovation.
Nov 07, 2025
Patent for Fast Accurate Viral Testing at the Point of Care
BioE Teaching Professor Timothy Lannin and Professor Jeffrey Ruberti were awarded a patent for creating a “Point of care viral detection system using turbo fluorescence in situ hybridization.”
May 08, 2024
2024 URF Scholars Recipients
Several engineering students received 2024 URF Scholars Awards from Northeastern’s Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships. URF Scholars are students who are graduating this year and who have earned a PEAK Experiences Award, applied for a distinguished fellowship, or participated in graduate school advising.
Sep 15, 2023
Fall 2023 PEAK Experiences Awardees for Undergrad Research
Several engineering and science students mentored by COE faculty are recipients of Fall 2023 PEAK Experiences Awards from Northeastern’s Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships.
Mar 30, 2020
Potts Awarded Fulbright Scholarship
Bioengineering BS/MS student Jake Potts was awarded a prestigious Fulbright Fellowship which he will use to conduct research at Sorbonne University to try to determine how certain cancerous mutations happen as DNA is “misrepaired,” a process that occurs when, say, radiation or harsh chemicals break the two strands of our DNA, and our cells respond by trying to repair this damage.