Faculty and Staff Directory

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

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

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