Department Directory
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
- Optimization and Control
- Multi-Agent Systems
- Machine Learning
- Reinforcement Learning
- s.shahrampour@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5750
Sandra Shefelbine
Senior Associate Dean of Strategic 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
Wearable robotics and machine learning for personalized gait rehabilitation systems
Hanumant Singh
Professor,
jointly appointed in
Electrical and Computer Engineering
, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
& Institute of Experiential Robotics
Geometric and Machine Learning based methods for mapping, SLAM and field deployments of Unmanned Aerial, Marine and Ground vehicles in extreme environments
- ha.singh@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7286
Rifat Sipahi
Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
control theory and network control for autonomous and human-in-the-loop systems (robotics, transportation, manufacturing)
- r.sipahi@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.6011
Bridget Smyser
Teaching Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
- b.smyser@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5142
Sivasubramanian Somu
Executive Director of Core Research Facility,
Kostas Nanoscale Research Center
- s.somu@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
Magnetoelectric materials and devices for wireless power and biomedical sensing
- n.sun@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3351
Xiaoyu Tang
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Experimental and theoretical fluid mechanics in multiphase and multiscale systems for advanced manufacturing, energy, and medical applications
- x.tang@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8404
Mohammad E. Taslim
Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Computational Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer for Plasma Torches related to Additive Manufacturing technology, Fluid-Surface Interactions for Newtonian and non-Newtonian liquid droplets, Droplets in Levitated State, Droplets in Vacuum, 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
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