
PhD Candidate and Postdoc Talent Portal
Welcome to Northeastern University’s College of Engineering talent portal featuring PhD candidates and postdocs seeking career opportunities in industry and academia. As a leading engineering school and an R1 research institution we are excited to help our industry and academic partners identify skilled talent.

Eeshan Basu
Meteorology & Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling, GHG Emissions Inventory Analysis, Climate Change, Sustainability, High Performance Computing

Ivan Felipe Benavides
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Ecology, Climate Change, Species Distribution Models, Fisheries, Remote Sensing, Sustainability, Environmen

Adamos Christou
Printed electronics, Additive manufacturing, Large area electronics, Nanofabrication, Instrumentation development, Robotics, Human-machine interaction

Eliza Costigan
Industrial wastewater treatment, scale-up of treatment systems, nutrient recovery, sustainability, cradle-to-cradle design

Kyla Drewry
Private water quality, Disaster recovery and resilience, Community-led research, Scientific communication

Kiarash Farzad
Air quality and energy modeling, urban and environmental data analysis, urban resiliency and sustainability, applied machine learning

Wesley Hayes
Drinking Water Quality, Environmental Justice, Private Well Water, Data Analysis and Visualization, Environmental Sampling

Yang Hu
Biomaterials, biophysics, cell-based high throuput screening assay, in vitro cell migration

Fabio Izzi
biomedical technology, biorobotics, human-machine interaction, digital twins, neuromechanical simulation, wearable robotics, mobile robotics

Turner Jennings
Helmet ergonomics, helmet design optimization, high-strain-rate mechanics of materials, brain injury biomechanics, computational mechanics

Thomas Keller
Materials Science, Functional Materials, Energy, Engineering, Magnetism, Additive Manufacturing, Industrial Ecology, Recycling, Characterization

Kanchan Mishra
Polymer synthesis, Multistep small molecule synthesis, Nanostructured materials, Catalyst surface tunning, Method development, Customize instruments

Fatima Mumtaza Tourk
Medical Robotics, Rehabilitation, Exoskeletons, Assistive Robotics, Machine Learning

Yujia Wang
Material developments; crystal growth; semiconductor; 2D materials;

Vanessa Whittem
occupant behavior, thermal comfort,feedback to architects, elementary school design, Post Occupancy Evaluation (POE), IEQ, Integral Sustainable Design

Libo Zhang
air pollution emission, air quality modeling, meteorology, climate change, atmospheric chemistry, hydrological modeling, and wildland fire emission

Yuwei Zhang
Calorimetry, Thermal system design, COMSOL simulation, CFD, Mechanical Design, Physics Informed Neural Network

Dongqin Zhou
Traffic operations and control, Infrastructure resilience, Deep reinforcement learning, Graph neural networks
PhD candidates and postdocs please submit your profile to be included in the talent portal.