David Luzzi
Senior Vice Provost for Research and Vice President,
Innovation Campus at Burlington
Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Contact
- d.luzzi@northeastern.edu
- 110 CH
360 Huntington Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts 02115
Social Media
Office
- 781.238.8452
Research Focus
Security, intelligence and resilience; corporate partnerships; intellectual property policy; technology readiness and transition; engineered materials; additive manufacturing; expeditionary cyber; cybersecurity; UAS swarms; workforce training and development
Honors & Awards
- Ellis Island Medal of Honor
Research Overview
Security, intelligence and resilience; corporate partnerships; intellectual property policy; technology readiness and transition; engineered materials; additive manufacturing; expeditionary cyber; cybersecurity; UAS swarms; workforce training and development
Selected Publications
- E. Abou-Hamad, Y. Kim, M. Bouhrara, Y. Saih, T. Wågberg, D.E. Luzzi, C. Goze-Bac, NMR Strategies to Study the Local Magnetic Properties of Carbon Nanotubes, Physics B: Condensed Matter, 407(4), 2012, 740-742
- Y. Kim, E. Abou-Hamad, A. Rubio, T. Wågberg, AV Talyzin, D.E. Boesch, S. Aloni, A. Zettl, D. Luzzi, C. Goze-Bac, Communications: Nanomagnetic Shielding: High-Resolution NMR in Carbon Allotropes, The Journal of Chemical Physics, 132(2), 2010, 21102
- E. Abou-Hamad, Y. Kim, T. Wågberg, D. Boesch, S. Aloni, A. Zettl, A. Rubio, D.E. Luzzi, C. Goze-Bac, Molecular Dynamics and Phase Transition in One-Dimensional Crystal of C60 Encapsulated Inside Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes, ACS nano, 3(12), 2009, 3878-3883
- E. Abou-Hamad, Y. Kim, A. Talyzin, C. Goze-Bac, D.E. Luzzi, C. Goze-Bac, A. Rubio, T. Wågberg, Hydrogenation of C60 in Peapods: Physical Chemistry in Nano Vessels, American Chemical Society, 113(2), 2009, 8583-8587
- P. Jaroenapibal, Y. Jung, S.Evoy, D.E. Luzzi, Electromechanical Properties of Individual Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Grown on Focused-Ion-Beam Patterned Substrates Ultramicroscopy, 109(2), 2009, 167-171
Sep 20, 2019
Creating the World’s Most Powerful Emulator of Wireless Systems
ECE Professor Tommaso Melodia is working with NSF and DARPA to create the next generation of wireless technology by building a testbed named Colosseum, which will be the world’s most powerful emulator of wireless systems.
Apr 09, 2019
Northeastern Opens State-of-the-Art Radio-Silient Drone Facilty
Northeastern University is collaborating with Hanscom Air Force Base on a $2.8M grant on a first-of-its-kind radio-silent drone testing facilty at Innovation Campus in Burlington.
Jan 14, 2016
Luzzi to Lead Northeastern's Initiatives in Security and Innovation
David E. Luzzi has been appointed vice provost for research innovation and development and vice president for the Northeastern University Innovation Campus in Burlington, Massachusetts.
Oct 11, 2013
How to develop cutting-edge technologies faster
When DuPont introduced Nylon in the 1940s, its creators had no idea that the material would be a critical component in today’s automobile engines. It took just as long for the world’s third-largest chemical company to develop a new kind of Nylon specifically for the auto industry. This story isn’t unique. Many of today’s technologies—from […]
May 15, 2012
Northeastern’s David Luzzi awarded prestigious Ellis Island medal
David Luzzi’s maternal grandfather emigrated with his widowed mother and five younger sisters from Ireland to New York in 1914, and at age 14 he worked long days. He attended high school and college classes in the evening. Eventually, he became the treasurer of the American-Hawaiian Steamship Company. Luzzi’s paternal grandfather, the son of Italian […]