Department Directory
170 Items found

Mehdi Abedi
Associate Teaching Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering - m.abedi@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4427

George G. Adams
Professor Emeritus,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Contact mechanics including adhesion, friction, and plasticity; modeling and analysis of MEMS; modeling and analysis in nanomechanics
- adams_g@coe.northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3826

Michael Ahern
Interdisciplinary Associate Co-op Coordinator,
Cooperative Education - m.ahern@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5578

Muhammad Noor E Alam
Associate Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Applied operations research, healthcare, supply chain, large scale optimization, and big data analytics
- md.alam@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2275

Michael Allshouse
Associate Teaching Professor ,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Nonlinear dynamics, geophysical fluid dynamics, computational fluid mechanics, disaster response, experimental fluids
- m.allshouse@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2138

Rouzbeh Amini
Associate Professor,
jointly appointed in
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering & Bioengineering
Biomechanics, mechanobiology, biotransport
- r.amini@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7688

Teiichi Ando
Professor Emeritus,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Thermodynamics and kinetics of materials, high strain-rate powder processing, modeling of rapid solidification

Ruobing Bai
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Research focus in the Bai group includes:
Solid mechanics and large deformation; Damage, fracture, fatigue, debonding, strengthening, toughening, and adhesion; Stimuli-responsive actuation and instability; Soft active materials and sustainable materials; Multi-physics of materials: mechanics, thermodynamics, chemistry, optics, and electromagnetism
- ru.bai@northeastern.edu
- 617-373-7150

Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
Affiliated Faculty,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering - a.barabasi@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7774

Maureen Basmajian
Senior Co-op Coordinator,
Cooperative Education - m.basmajian@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5240

Mehdi Behroozi
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Geographic resource allocation, logistics, scheduling, multimodal transport systems, shared mobility, decentralized systems and resilient networks, data visualization, computational social science; Data-driven robust optimization, computational geometry, geometric probability theory, and geospatial analysis.
- m.behroozi@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2032

James Benneyan
Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Healthcare systems engineering, operations research, quality and reliability engineering, statistical quality control, high reliability design, patient safety
- j.benneyan@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.6450

John Bleakney
Associate Co-op Coordinator,
Cooperative Education - j.bleakney@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4418

Ahmed Busnaina
WL Smith Chair and University Distinguished Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Nanomanufacturing; nano and microscale printing of sensors and electronics; nano and micro-scale defects in semiconductor manufacturing; high rate nanomanufacturing; power electronics, RF, NEMS devices and nanomaterials based nanoelectronics, flexible and hybrid electronics
- busnaina@coe.northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2992

Terrell Cantave
Data and Student Services Associate,
Cooperative Education - t.cantave@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2770

Heather Carpenter-Oliveira
Senior Co-op Coordinator & Senior Associate Director,
Cooperative Education - he.carpenter@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4307

Chun-An Chou
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Mathematical Optimization, Data Mining, Machine Learning, Healthcare Analytics, Computational Neuroscience, Decision Support Systems
- ch.chou@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3865

John W. Cipolla
Professor Emeritus,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Mathematical methods and modeling; thermodynamics; fluid dynamics; kinetic theory of gases; thermophoresis of aerosols
- j.cipolla@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3805

Sally Conant
Senior Co-op Coordinator, Global Engineering & Associate Director, Global, Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering, and Civil & Environmental Engineering,
Global Engineering Co-op - s.conant@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.6373

Umit Coskun
Teaching Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering - a.coskun@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5314

Joyce Crain
Administrative Assistant,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering - j.crain@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2740

Thomas Cullinane
Professor Emeritus,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering analysis and design of efficient facilities focusing on inventory space control, materials handling and staffing levels
- t.cullinane@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4851

Mohammad Dehghani
Associate Teaching Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Reinforcement Learning, Simulation Optimization; Healthcare Operations
- m.dehghani@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4722

Natalia Diaz
Program Coordinator,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering - n.diaz@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2820

Charles DiMarzio
Associate Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Optics, microscopy, coherent detection, interaction of light and sound
waves, hyperspectral imaging, diffusive optical tomography multi-model
imaging and remote sensing. Activities include computer modeling,
designing, building, and testing of hardware, and processing the
resulting data
- dimarzio@ece.northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2034

Randall Erb
Associate Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Structure/property relationships in composites and ceramics, magnetic manipulation, colloidal physics
- r.erb@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4649

Ozlem Ergun
COE Distinguished Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Affairs,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Design and management of large-scale networks, supply chain design and resilience, collaboration and crowdsourcing in logistics, humanitarian logistics
- o.ergun@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.6254

Nasser Fard
Associate Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Systems reliability, accelerated life testing in reliability prediction; big data-data driven decision making in spatiotemporal streaming environment; life data (survival data) analysis; robust design of experiments
- n.fard@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4113

Andrew Gouldstone
Professor and Associate Chair for Undergraduate Affairs,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Biomechanics, material science, engineering mechanics
- a.gouldstone@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3699

Jack Greenfield
Senior Lab Technician,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering - j.greenfield@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2626

Jacqueline Griffin
Associate Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Health care resource allocation with multi-objective resource allocation models; modeling resiliency in complex systems; design and management of outpatient health care clinics; simulation: discrete event simulation and systems dynamics; deterministic and stochastic optimization
- ja.griffin@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7635

Surendra M. Gupta
Professor Emeritus,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Green manufacturing; green supply chains; disassembly modeling; remanufacturing; reverse logistics; managing end of life products; environmentally conscious manufacturing; manufacturing sustainability; reverse and closed-loop supply chains; just-in-time (jit) manufacturing and materials management; operations research: stochastic and simulation modeling
- s.gupta@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4846

Andrei Guschin
Associate Teaching Professor - Seattle,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering - a.guschin@northeastern.edu
- 206.467.5480

Cynthia Hajal
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Tissue engineering, microfluidics, cancer

Kristina Hals
Associate Co-op Coordinator,
Cooperative Education - k.hals@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.6483

Casper Harteveld
Affiliated Faculty,
jointly appointed in
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering & Electrical and Computer Engineering
- c.harteveld@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4027

Sara M. Hashmi
Assistant Professor,
Chemical Engineering Complex fluids, biomaterials & soft materials: manipulation of nanoscale and single-particle properties to control macroscale transport & assembly; microfluidics for biomedical, pharmaceutical & energy applications
- s.hashmi@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.6985

Babak Heydari
Associate Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Socio-technical systems, systems engineering and design, social and economic networks, resilience of networked systems, computational social sciences, platform-based systems, sharing economy systems, computational social sciences, game theory, artificial intelligence
- b.heydari@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5507

Carlos Hidrovo
Associate Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Multiscale and multiphase flow and transport phenomena, surface tension interactions in micro/nanoengineered structures, and electrokinetic ion transport in porous media for applications in energy storage, portable biochemical diagnostics, thermal management, and water treatment systems
- hidrovo@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7520

Cydney Hodder
Assistant Co-op Coordinator,
Cooperative Education - c.hodder@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3839

Megan Hofmann
Assistant Professor,
jointly appointed in
Khoury College of Computer Sciences & Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Accessibility and fabrication, digital fabrication in healthcare, automatic machine knitting

Jacqueline Isaacs
Professor and Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs,
Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Economic-environmental assessment of alternative manu/nanomanufacturing routes towards sustainable design and manufacturing, societal implications of nanomanufacturing, with interdisciplinary collaborations in political science, philosophy, industrial hygiene and industrial engineering, development and assessment of educational games for engineering students and for K-12 outreach activities.
- j.isaacs@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3989

Beverly Kris Jaeger-Helton
Teaching Professor and Director for Industrial Engineering Undergraduate Curriculum,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Biomechanics and Mechanobiology, Motor Control, Healthcare Systems, Human Factors Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Logistics and Operations Research, Business, Data Management and Statistics, Engineering Training and Education, Safety Management, Information Processing, Cognition/Cognitive Psychology, Human Performance Engineering, Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing, Process Control
- bkjaeger@coe.northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5995

Safa Jamali
Associate Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Microstructure-macroscopic properties relationship in complex fluids; rheology and physics of complex and structured fluids; colloidal suspensions; mesoscale computational science; computational fluid dynamics; physics of living systems; hemorheology and hemodynamics
- s.jamali@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5782

Noah Japhet
Academic Support Coordinator,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering - n.japhet@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2186

Mohammad Amin Javadi
Assistant Teaching Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering data/sensor fusion, analytics and simulation in manufacturing and automotive industries, and healthcare

Xiaoning “Sarah” Jin
Associate Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Developing advanced models for prognostics and health management using physics-based models and data analytics; designing preventive strategies for manufacturing operations
- xi.jin@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8733

Xuemin Jin
Teaching Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering data mining, data management, mathematical methods, machine learning, data analytics, emotion detection, remote sensing, atmospheric compensation, data analytics engineering student organization (DAESO)
- x.jin@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.6769

Yung Joon Jung
Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Synthesis of low dimensional nanomaterials and engineering their molecular structures; assembly, transfer and integration of nanomaterials and nanostructured architectures and study properties and underlying fundamental science; nanoelectronics, flexible devices, chemical sensors and energy application
- y.jung@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4843

Sagar Kamarthi
Associate Dean for Graduate Education,
Office of the Dean Sensing, diagnostics and prognostics for manufacturing machines and equipment, AI for smart and sustainable manufacturing and manufacturing systems integration, Machine learning models for personalized medicine and healthcare, Computational methods for pain assessment physiological sensing systems, Engineering education, personalized learning, and mass-customized instruction model
- s.kamarthi@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3070

Alain Karma
Affiliated Faculty,
jointly appointed in
Bioengineering & Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
computational modeling of cardiac arrhythmia mechanisms from cellular to organ scales including systems biology approaches
- a.karma@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2929

Rick Kennedy
Maker Space Specialist,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering - ri.kennedy@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5636

Hyeon Yu Kim
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Mechanobiology, tissue engineering, cardiovascular diseases, stem cells, organoids, 3D printing

Haris Koutsopoulos
Professor and Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Urban transportation networks and informatics, public transportation operations, mobility on demand
- h.koutsopoulos@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.6263

Gregory Kowalski
Associate Professor Emeritus,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Energy related and calorimeter studies related to pharmaceutical developments; simulation of thermal effects on laser beam propagation through heated materials; simulating microscale heat transfer phenomena and its effects on laser beam propagation; Simulation of laser welding processes
- gkowal@coe.northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2971

Kristina Kutsukos
Assistant Co-op Coordinator,
Global Engineering Co-op - k.kutsukos@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3808

Victoria Lee
Assistant Co-op Coordinator,
Cooperative Education - vi.lee@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3762

Jack Lesko
Professor,
jointly appointed in
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering & Civil and Environmental Engineering
emerging interdisciplinary design involving lightweight polymeric multifunctional materials, structural design and reliability, packaging, and energy systems
- j.lesko@northeastern.edu
- 540-553-5456

Laurent Lessard
Associate Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Control theory, linear systems, optimization algorithms, machine learning
- l.lessard@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8039

Yiannis Levendis
COE Distinguished Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Gasification and combustion of solid fuels, generation and containment of combustion-generated pollution, synthesis and characterization of combustion-generated materials, fire suppression – fire extinction, engine design and operation
- y.levendis@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3806

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

Yaning Li
Associate Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Mechanics of materials, bio-inspired engineering, and additive manufacturing; mechanics of innovative architectured materials; mechanical metamaterials; biological materials
- y.li@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3027

Yingzi Lin
Professor,
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
- yi.lin@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8610

Jeffrey Ian Lipton
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering 3D Printing and Robotics

Yongmin Liu
Associate 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 Associate Chair for 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

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

Lucy Siying Lu
Associate Co-op Coordinator,
Cooperative Education - si.lu@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3447

David Luzzi
Senior Vice Provost for Research and Vice President,
Innovation Campus at Burlington Growth, reputation, and impact of the University's research portfolio including its strategic emphasis on Health, Security and Sustainability. Facilitating the success of Northeastern's faculty, staff and student researchers and scholars across ideation, articulation, execution and translation. Security, intelligence and resilience; corporate partnerships; intellectual property policy; technology readiness and transition.
- d.luzzi@northeastern.edu
- 781.238.8460

Tong Ma
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Nonlinear systems and control; modeling and control of partial differential equations described systems; stochastic control and optimization; statistical and machine learning estimation and forecasting

Kayse Lee Maass
Assistant Professor,
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

Ben Macalister
Senior Machinist,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering - b.macalister@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3707

Robin MacIlroy
Associate Co-op Coordinator,
Cooperative Education - r.macilroy@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5765

Craig Maloney
Associate Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Modeling, simulation, and theory of nanoscale mechanics, soft matter, and glasses and amorphous materials
- c.maloney@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.6255

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

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
Assistant Teaching Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering - m.matherne@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4668

Kevin McCue
Senior Electronic Lab Technician,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering - k.mccue@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4548

Nicol McGruer
Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering MEMS, NEMS, RF MEMS; nanotechnology; micro/nanofabrication; microsystems; microrelay; nanoswitch; microspectrometer; microfluidics; organic FETs, organic solar cells
- mcgruer@ece.northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2066

David McKee Jr
Clean Room Engineering Specialist,
George J. Kostas Center - d.mckee@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2163

Hugh McManus
Associate Teaching Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering - h.mcmanus@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4665

Sophia McMonagle
Senior Data & Student Services Associate,
Cooperative Education - s.mcmonagle@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8033

Emanuel Melachrinoudis
Professor Emeritus,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Deterministic operations research and multi-criteria optimization; facility location; supply chain, transportation and logistics; wireless sensor networks wildfire prediction and mitigation
- e.melachrinoudis@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4850

Hameed Metghalchi
Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Thermodynamics, combustion, chemical kinetics, renewable energy, exergy analysis
- metghalchi@coe.northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2973

Marilyn L. Minus
Professor and Chair,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Process-structure-properties relationships in polymer-based nano-composites fibers; polymer/nano-carbon interfacial interactions and interphase formations; lightweight composite materials; carbon-carbon composites
- m.minus@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2608

Sarah Mockler
Associate Co-op Coordinator & Assistant Director,
Cooperative Education - s.mockler@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7299

Mohsen Moghaddam
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Human-Machine Teaming, Extended Reality, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- mohsen@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.6256

Lorraine Mountain
Assistant Dean & Senior Co-op Coordinator,
Cooperative Education Departmental Programs: Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Data Analytics, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Energy Systems, Engineering Management, Engineering Public Policy, Environmental Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, Operations Research, Robotics, and Sustainable Building Systems.
- l.mountain@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2966

Ronald Mourant
Professor Emeritus,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Virtual Environments; 3D Simulation and Open Source Game Engines
- mourant@coe.northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3931

Sinan Müftü
COE Distinguished Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Cold-spray additive manufacturing; high-velocity impact of micron-scale particles; mechanics and tribology of axially moving materials; numerical simulation of tissue healing and bone remodeling
- s.muftu@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4743

Hande Musdal Ondemir
Assistant Teaching Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering - h.musdal@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4723

Uichiro Narusawa
Associate Professor Emeritus,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Biomechanics on respiratory systems, Turbine blade cooling
- u.narusawa@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5507

Hamid Nayeb-Hashemi
Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Biomechanics and mechanics
- h.nayeb-hashemi@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5515

Alison Nogueira
Senior Co-op Coordinator & Senior Director of Co-op,
Cooperative Education - a.nogueira@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3835

Ahmad Nourian Avval
Assistant Research Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Mechanical performance of metallic materials, Process-microstructure-performance relationship, Additive Manufacturing, Advanced materials

Beth Simone Noveck
Professor,
jointly appointed in
School of Law & Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Industrial and software engineering; solving public problems

Thomas Olson
Computer Systems Manager,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering - t.olson@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3821

Ozan Ozdemir
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Advanced metal additive manufacturing, compressible flows, multiphase flows, heat and mass transfer, thermodynamics, and failure analysis
- o.ozdemir@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2159

Jahir Pabon
Associate Teaching Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering - j.pabon@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7151

Himlona Palikhe
Associate Teaching Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering - h.palikhe@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4288

Paul Pei
Assistant Teaching Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering - ji.pei@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4449

Robert Platt
Affiliated Faculty,
jointly appointed in
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering & Electrical and Computer Engineering
- rplatt@ccs.neu.edu
- 617.373.7681

Nathan Post
Associate Research Professor,
jointly appointed in
Civil and Environmental Engineering & Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
optimization of structures and components for a circular economy and climate resilience with a focus on composite materials, advanced manufacturing, uncertainty analysis, and applied AI; applications include the wind industry, energy-efficient construction, managing extreme weather events, orthopedic implants.

Srinivasan Radhakrishnan
Associate Teaching Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering - s.radhakrishnan@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8685

Manish Ranjit
Assistant Teaching Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering - m.ranjit@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2305

Jeffrey W. Ruberti
Professor,
Bioengineering Tissue engineering of load-bearing matrix (bone, cornea); bioreactor design; multi-scale mechanobiochemistry; statistical mechanics; energetics microscopy; high-resolution imaging; biopolymer self-assembly
- j.ruberti@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3984

Vinod Sahney
Professor Emeritus,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Health care initiatives; industrial engineering; operations research

Peter Schindler
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Discovery of novel materials for renewable energy applications using high-throughput density functional theory calculations and data-driven materials property predictions. Additional focus on surface science of thin-film growth, semiconductor fabrication, and heterogeneous catalysis.

Shahin Shahrampour
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Machine learning, optimization and control, distributed and sequential learning, with a focus on developing computationally efficient methods for data analytics
- s.shahrampour@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5750

Sandra Shefelbine
Associate Dean for Space and Special Initiatives,
Office of the Dean Multi-scale bone biomechanics–how the structure and composition of bone influences its mechanical properties; mechano-adaptation of bone and joint– how tissue responds to mechanical signals
- s.shefelbine@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3199

Max Shepherd
Assistant Professor,
jointly appointed in
Physical Therapy, Movement and Rehabilitation Sciences & Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Prosthetics and wearable robotics design and control, gait rehabilitation, preference optimization, and machine learning

Hanumant Singh
Professor,
jointly appointed in
Electrical and Computer Engineering & Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Machine Learning for Fisheries, SLAM in the presence of Dynamic Moving Objects, Counter UAS methodologies , Manipulation Underwater, and Imaging in Visually Degraded Environments including underwater and in polar regions
- ha.singh@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7286

Rifat Sipahi
Professor and Associate Chair for Research Affairs,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Control systems and mechatronics; stability analysis and control synthesis of dynamical systems with delays; interplay between stability, delays, and graphs; control-systems-aided human-machine systems; engineering education research; disability research; systems biology
- r.sipahi@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.6011

Bridget Smyser
Teaching Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering - b.smyser@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5142

Sivasubramanian Somu
Director of Core Research Facility,
Kostas Nanoscale Research Center - ssomu@ece.northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5848

Seungmoon Song
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Modeling the neuromechanics of human movement and applying it to assistive devices and rehabilitation treatment

Allen Soyster
Professor Emeritus,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Industrial engineering/operations research

Sivarit (Tony) Sultornsanee
Associate Teaching Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Internet of Things (IoT) and intelligent factory transformation; Price recommendation and optimization using machine learning models; Image search engines and semantic segmentation; Applications of artificial intelligence in business; and Biomedical signal processing for healthcare applications

Hongwei Sun
Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Multiphase thermal transport phenomena, acoustic wave bio and chemical sensors and actuators, thermal management of fibers and films, thermal energy storage materials and processing, microchannel cooling systems, nanoimprinting process and applications, MEMS/NEMS fabrication, microfluidics and bioMEMS; nanoscale magnetic assembly and applications
- ho.sun@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7124

Nian X. Sun
COE Distinguished Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering New magnetic and magnetoelectric materials and device physics; integrated magnetic, ferroelectric and multiferroic materials and microsystems for sensing, memory, power, RF and microwave electronics; novel electrochemical sensors for sensing different pathogens and biomarkers for the diagnosis of various diseases, including COVID-19, Alzheimer’s disease, lung cancer, drug abuse, diabetes, etc.
- nian@ece.northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3351

Xiaoyu Tang
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Fluid mechanics, soft matter, microfluidics, active colloidal systems, electrokinetic flow, interfacial phenomena, complex fluids, reactive flow, biological flow; additive manufacturing, material synthesis and processing in flow, oil/gas recovery and remediation
- x.tang@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8404

Mohammad E. Taslim
Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Experimental and numerical research in gas turbine cooling technology, solar and wind energy, non-newtonian liquid droplet interactions with hydrophobic surfaces, nano-sensors
- m.taslim@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5514

Yustianto Tjiptowidjojo
Associate Teaching Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering - y.tjiptowidjojo@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.6932

Jillian Tucker
Business Manager,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering - j.tucker@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2820

Moneesh Upmanyu
Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Computational techniques that span multiple scales, atomic- to continuum, to quantify the structure property relations in established and emerging material systems, both in technology and nature
- mupmanyu@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3186

Kai-tak Wan
Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Cellular biomechanics; water filtration; thin film adhesion and characterization; subsurface mechano-sensing; shell adhesion; fundamental intersurface forces
- k.wan@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2248

John “Peter” Whitney
Associate Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Human-safe robots, medical robotics, soft robotics and soft material manufacturing, MEMS, microrobotics, bio-inspired design, flapping aerodynamics and insect flight
- j.whitney@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3427

Wei Xie
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Interpretable AI, IoT, computer simulation, data integrity and big data analytics, data-driven stochastic optimization, blockchain design and development for complex end-to-end cyber-physical system learning and risk management with applications, including biopharmaceutical manufacturing and supply chains, smart power grids with renewable energy, and health care
- w.xie@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.6917

Yasin Yazicioglu
Assistant Professor,
jointly appointed in
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering & Electrical and Computer Engineering
Control theory, robotics, multi-agent systems, networks

Sze Zheng Yong
Associate Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Control, estimation, planning, learning and analysis of hybrid systems, with
applications to autonomous, robotic and cyber-physical dynamic systems
and their safety, robustness and resilience.

Yoseob Yoon
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Optoelectronic and mechanical properties of quantum materials, van der Waals heterostructures, engineering light-matter interactions, ultrafast optical and THz spectroscopy

Xubo Yue
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Federated data analytics, Bayesian optimization, continuous optimization, Gaussian processes, deep learning

Ibrahim Zeid
Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Mechanics; personalized medicine; simulation techniques and complex networks analysis
- zeid@coe.northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3817

Cheng Zeng
Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Data Science; Computational Materials Science; Additive Manufacturing; Corrosion and Protection
- c.zeng@northeastern.edu
- 4013966668

Yi Zheng
Associate Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Nanoscale thermal transport; Nanoengineered materials; Multifunctional composites; Microfluidics; Chemical and biological nanosensors; Renewable energy harvesting; Thermophotovoltaics; Photon-based radiative cooling
- y.zheng@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5558

Hongli (Julie) Zhu
Associate Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering All solid state batteries; Flow Batteries; Batteries fast charge; High energy density batteries; Advanced manufacturing; Sustainable biomass-derived material from Nature; Bendable, implantable, and biocompatible electronics; Investigations of sustainable biomaterial, like cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin, materials-structure-performance-application correlations.
- h.zhu@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2735

Juner Zhu
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Electro-chemo-mechanics, energy storage systems, scientific machine learning, battery sustainability and safety