Faculty and Staff Directory

Mehdi Abedi
Assistant 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.neu.edu
- 617.373.3826

Muhammad Noor E Alam
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Applied operations research, healthcare, supply chain, large scale optimization, and big data analytics
- mnalam@neu.edu
- 781.353.9136

Michael Allshouse
Assistant 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,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Rapid solidification processing, droplet-based materials processing, powder metallurgy, material processing by severe plastic deformation, processing-structure-property relationships in materials
- tando@coe.neu.edu
- 617.373.3811

Ruobing Bai
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Solid mechanics and large deformation, soft active materials: hydrogels, liquid crystal elastomers, and biomaterials, fracture and adhesion of materials, multi-physics of materials: mechanics, thermodynamics, chemistry, optics, and electromagnetism, instability of materials

Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
Affiliated Faculty,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering - a.barabasi@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7774

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
Assistant Co-op Coordinator,
Cooperative Education - j.bleakney@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4418

Katherine Bradley
First-Year & Mechanical Engineering (H-N) and Class of 2020 & 2021 (H-R) Academic Advisor,
Undergraduate Academic Advising - k.bradley@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2154

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.neu.edu
- 617.373.2992

Peter Cardillo
Assistant Co-op Coordinator,
Cooperative Education - p.cardillo@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2349

Hugo Cardona
Academic Assistant,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering - h.cardona@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.6288

Heather Carpenter-Oliveira
Associate Co-op Coordinator and Assistant 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, Complex 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
Associate Co-op Coordinator,
Global Engineering Co-op - s.conant@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.6373

Umit Coskun
Associate 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

Roy Dalsheim
First-Year & Mechanical Engineering (A-G) and Class of 2020 & 2021 (S-Z) Academic Advisor,
Undergraduate Academic Advising - r.dalsheim@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4120

Mohammad Dehghani
Assistant Teaching Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Simulation optimization; healthcare operation management; supply chain finance
- m.dehghani@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4722

Charles DiMarzio
Associate Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Optics, microscopy, coherent detection, interaction of light and sound waves, hyperspectral imaging, diffusive optical tomography and ultrasound, landmine detection, magneto-optic sensors, and multi-model imaging. Activities include computer modeling, designing, building, and testing of hardware, and processing the resulting data
- dimarzio@ece.neu.edu
- 617.373.2034

Joy Erb
First-Year, NU Start (A-K), Study Abroad Programs, & Industrial Engineering Academic Advisor,
Undergraduate Academic Advising - j.erb@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2154

Randall Erb
Associate Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Structure/property relationships in composites and ceramics, magnetic manipulation, colloidal physics
- erb@coe.neu.edu
- 617.373.4649

Ozlem Ergun
Professor,
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,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Biomechanics, material science, engineering mechanics
- a.gouldstone@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4017

Jack Greenfield
Lab Technician,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering - j.greenfield@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2740

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,
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

Rozhin Hajian
Future Faculty Fellow,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering - r.hajian@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2740

Casper Harteveld
Affiliated Faculty,
jointly appointed in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering & Electrical and Computer Engineering - c.harteveld@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4027

Juan Heredia Juesas
Senior Research Engineer,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering - j.herediajuesas@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.6835

Babak Heydari
Associate Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering socio-technical systems, systems engineering and design, social and economic networks, resilience of networked systems, computational social sciences, platform-based systems, sharing economy systems, computational social sciences, game theory, artificial intelligence
- b.heydari@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5507

Carlos Hidrovo
Associate Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Multiscale and multiphase flow and transport phenomena, surface tension interactions in micro/nanoengineered structures, and electrokinetic ion transport in porous media for applications in energy storage, portable biochemical diagnostics, thermal management, and water treatment systems
- hidrovo@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7520