Department Directory
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