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
Alp Akcay
Associate Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Simulation-based optimization, digital twins, data analytics, predictive maintenance, semiconductor manufacturing and supply chains
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
Rehab Ali
Assistant Teaching Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Healthcare, supply chain, food security, machine learning, blockchain, lean manufacturing, quality management, simulation and modeling
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 Solid mechanics and large deformation; Damage, fracture, fatigue, debonding, strengthening, toughening, and adhesion; Stimuli-responsive actuation and instability; Multifunctional materials and sustainable materials; Multiphysical processes
- 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
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 and Assistant Director,
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
Senior Data and Student Services Associate,
Cooperative Education - t.cantave@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2770
Heather Carpenter-Oliveira
COE Distinguished Senior Co-op Coordinator & Senior Associate Director,
Cooperative Education - he.carpenter@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4307
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
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
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