Department Directory

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