Faculty and Staff Directory
145 Items found

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.neu.edu
- 617.373.3826

Michael Ahern
Assistant Co-op Coordinator,
Cooperative Education - m.ahern@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5578

Muhammad Noor E Alam
Assistant 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
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 Densification and metallurgical bonding in high strain-rate deformation powder processing, modeling of rapid solidification
- tando@coe.neu.edu
- 617.373.3811

Ruobing Bai
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Research focus in the Bai group includes:
Solid mechanics and large deformation; Mechanical failures: damage, fracture, fatigue, and debonding; Stimuli-responsive actuation and instability; Soft active materials: hydrogels, liquid crystal elastomers, and biomaterials; 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.neu.edu
- 617.373.2992

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

Heather Carpenter-Oliveira
Senior Co-op Coordinator & Assistant Director,
Cooperative Education - he.carpenter@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4307

Anthony Childress
Postdoctoral Research Associate,
Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing - a.childress@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.6012

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
Associate Co-op Coordinator Global Engineering & Assistant Director, Global 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.neu.edu
- 617.373.2034

Rodrigo Donascimento
Senior Machinist,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering - r.donascimento@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2980

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 Experiential Innovation,
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,
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
Postdoctoral Research Associate,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering - r.hajian@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2740

Kristina Hals
Assistant 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

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

Cydney Hodder
Assistant Co-op Coordinator,
Cooperative Education - c.hodder@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3839

Jacqueline Isaacs
Professor and Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs,
Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Economic-environmental assessment of alternative manu/nanomanufacturing routes towards sustainable design and manufacturing, societal implications of nanomanufacturing, with interdisciplinary collaborations in political science, philosophy, industrial hygiene and industrial engineering, development and assessment of educational games for engineering students and for K-12 outreach activities.
- j.isaacs@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3989

Beverly Kris Jaeger-Helton
Teaching Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Biomechanics and Mechanobiology, Motor Control, Healthcare Systems, Human Factors Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Logistics and Operations Research, Business, Data Management and Statistics, Engineering Training and Education, Safety Management, Information Processing, Cognition/Cognitive Psychology, Human Performance Engineering, Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing, Process Control
- bkjaeger@coe.neu.edu
- 617.373.5995

Safa Jamali
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Microstructure-macroscopic properties relationship in complex fluids; rheology and physics of complex and structured fluids; colloidal suspensions; mesoscale computational science; computational fluid dynamics; physics of living systems; hemorheology and hemodynamics
- s.jamali@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5782

Noah Japhet
Academic Support Coordinator,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering - n.japhet@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2186

Xiaoning “Sarah” Jin
Associate Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Developing advanced models for prognostics and health management using physics-based models and data analytics; designing preventive strategies for manufacturing operations
- xi.jin@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8733

Xuemin Jin
Teaching Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering data mining, data management, mathematical methods, machine learning, data analytics, emotion detection, remote sensing, atmospheric compensation, data analytics engineering student organization (DAESO)
- x.jin@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.6769

Yung Joon Jung
Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Synthesis of low dimensional nanomaterials and engineering their molecular structures; assembly, transfer and integration of nanomaterials and nanostructured architectures and study properties and underlying fundamental science; nanoelectronics, flexible devices, chemical sensors and energy application
- y.jung@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4843

Sagar Kamarthi
Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Sensing, diagnostics and prognostics for manufacturing machines and equipment, AI for smart and sustainable manufacturing and manufacturing systems integration, Machine learning models for personalized medicine and healthcare, Computational methods for pain assessment physiological sensing systems, Engineering education, personalized learning, and mass-customized instruction model
- s.kamarthi@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3070

Rick Kennedy
Maker Space Specialist,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering - ri.kennedy@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5636

Haris Koutsopoulos
Professor & Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Urban transportation networks and informatics, public transportation operations, mobility on demand
- h.koutsopoulos@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.6263

Gregory Kowalski
Associate Professor Emeritus,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Energy related and calorimeter studies related to pharmaceutical developments; simulation of thermal effects on laser beam propagation through heated materials; simulating microscale heat transfer phenomena and its effects on laser beam propagation; Simulation of laser welding processes
- gkowal@coe.neu.edu
- 617.373.2971

Kristina Kutsukos
Assistant Co-op Coordinator,
Global Engineering Co-op - k.kutsukos@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3808

Jack Lesko
Professor,
jointly appointed in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering & Civil and Environmental Engineering emerging interdisciplinary design involving lightweight polymeric multifunctional materials, structural design and reliability, packaging, and energy systems
- j.lesko@northeastern.edu
- 540-553-5456

Laurent Lessard
Associate Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Control theory, linear systems, optimization algorithms, machine learning
- l.lessard@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8039

Yiannis Levendis
COE Distinguished Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Gasification and combustion of solid fuels, generation and containment of combustion-generated pollution, synthesis and characterization of combustion-generated materials, fire suppression – fire extinction, engine design and operation
- y.levendis@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3806

Laura H. Lewis
Distinguished University and Cabot Professor,
jointly appointed in Chemical Engineering & Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Structure-property relationships in magnetofunctional materials for energy transformations including advanced permanent magnet materials and magnetocaloric materials; strategic materials and supply chains for technological application
- lhlewis@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3419

Yaning Li
Associate Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Mechanics of materials, bio-inspired engineering, and additive manufacturing; mechanics of innovative architectured materials; mechanical metamaterials; biological materials
- y.li@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3027

Yingzi Lin
Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Human-machine systems, human factors, biosensing and smart systems, human state and behavior modeling, transportation safety, healthcare and patient safety, human-friendly mechatronics, and human-robot interaction
- yi.lin@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8610

Yongmin Liu
Associate Professor,
jointly appointed in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering & Electrical and Computer Engineering Nano optics, nanoscale materials and engineering, nano devices, plasmonics, metamaterials, and applied physics
- y.liu@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4457

Carol Livermore
Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Operations,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering MEMS-enabled actuator systems (assistive technologies, energy harvesting, and flow control); origami-enabled microfluidics and tissue engineering; carbon nanomaterials
- livermore@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4922

Georgia Looney
Assistant Co-op Coordinator,
Cooperative Education - g.looney@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3340

Francis Loth
Professor,
jointly appointed in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering & Bioengineering Biological flows, experimental fluid mechanics, computational fluid mechanics, blood flow simulation, cerebrospinal fluid simulation, Chiari malformation, syringomyelia, medical image processing, magnetic resonance imaging
- f.loth@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8232

David Luzzi
Senior Vice Provost for Research and Vice President,
Innovation Campus at Burlington Growth, reputation, and impact of the University's research portfolio including its strategic emphasis on Health, Security and Sustainability. Facilitating the success of Northeastern's faculty, staff and student researchers and scholars across ideation, articulation, execution and translation. Security, intelligence and resilience; corporate partnerships; intellectual property policy; technology readiness and transition.
- d.luzzi@northeastern.edu
- 781.238.8460

Tong Ma
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Nonlinear systems and control; modeling and control of partial differential equations described systems; stochastic control and optimization; estimation and forecasting using statistical and machine learning techniques; data-driven modeling, control, and optimization

Kayse Lee Maass
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Stochastic optimization, network theory, facility location modeling, and supply chain design for applications regarding equity, access, human trafficking, mental health, and humanitarian logistics
- k.maass@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3629

Ben Macalister
Senior Machinist,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering - b.macalister@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3707

Robin MacIlroy
Assistant Co-op Coordinator,
Cooperative Education - r.macilroy@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5765

Craig Maloney
Associate Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Modeling, simulation, and theory of nanoscale mechanics, soft matter, and glasses and amorphous materials
- c.maloney@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.6255

Tucker Marion
Associate Professor,
jointly appointed in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group & Mechanical and Industrial Engineering New product development process, lean processes for innovation, IT and design tools, sourcing and cost engineering
- t.marion@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2241

Jose Martinez Lorenzo
Associate Professor,
jointly appointed in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering & Electrical and Computer Engineering Devices, circuits and sensing; antenna analysis, modeling, design, and optimization; subsurface scattering analysis; computational methods of electromagnetics; novel radar system specification and design; explosives detection
- j.martinez-lorenzo@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.6835

Marguerite Matherne
Assistant Teaching Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering - m.matherne@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4668

Nicol McGruer
Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering MEMS, NEMS, RF MEMS; nanotechnology; micro/nanofabrication; microsystems; microrelay; nanoswitch; microspectrometer; microfluidics; organic FETs, organic solar cells
- mcgruer@ece.neu.edu
- 617.373.2066

David McKee Jr
Clean Room Engineering Specialist,
George J. Kostas Center - d.mckee@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2163

Hugh McManus
Associate Teaching Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering - h.mcmanus@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4665

Sophia McMonagle
Student Services and Data Manager,
Cooperative Education - s.mcmonagle@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8033

Emanuel Melachrinoudis
Professor and Associate Chair for Operations and Director for Industrial Engineering Undergraduate Curriculum,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Deterministic operations research and multi-criteria optimization; facility location; supply chain, transportation and logistics; wireless sensor networks wildfire prediction and mitigation
- e.melachrinoudis@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4850

Hameed Metghalchi
Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Thermodynamics, combustion, chemical kinetics, renewable energy, energy analysis
- metghalchi@coe.neu.edu
- 617.373.2973

Marilyn L. Minus
Professor and Chair,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Process-structure-properties relationships in polymer-based nano-composites fibers; polymer/nano-carbon interfacial interactions and interphase formations; lightweight composite materials; carbon-carbon composites
- m.minus@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2608

Sarah Mockler
Associate Co-op Coordinator,
Cooperative Education - s.mockler@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7299

Mohsen Moghaddam
Assistant Professor,
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Human-Machine Teaming, Extended Reality, User-Centered Design, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- mohsen@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.6256

Lorraine Mountain
Assistant Dean & Senior Co-op Coordinator,
Cooperative Education Departmental Programs: Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Data Analytics, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Energy Systems, Engineering Management, Engineering Public Policy, Environmental Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, Operations Research, Robotics, and Sustainable Building Systems.
- l.mountain@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2966

Ronald Mourant
Professor Emeritus,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Virtual Environments; 3D Simulation and Open Source Game Engines
- mourant@coe.neu.edu
- 617.373.3931

Sinan Müftü
Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Cold-spray additive manufacturing; high-velocity impact of micron-scale particles; mechanics and tribology of axially moving materials; numerical simulation of tissue healing and bone remodeling
- s.muftu@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4743

Hande Musdal Ondemir
Assistant Teaching Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering - h.musdal@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4723

Uichiro Narusawa
Associate Professor Emeritus,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Biomechanics on respiratory systems, Turbine blade cooling
- u.narusawa@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5507

Hamid Nayeb-Hashemi
Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Biomechanics and mechanics
- h.nayeb-hashemi@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5515

Alison Nogueira
Senior Co-op Coordinator & Director of Co-op,
Cooperative Education - a.nogueira@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3835

Beth Simone Noveck
Professor,
jointly appointed in School of Law & Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Industrial and software engineering; solving public problems

Thomas Olson
Computer Systems Manager,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering - t.olson@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3821

Ozan Ozdemir
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Advanced metal additive manufacturing, compressible flows, multiphase flows, heat and mass transfer, thermodynamics, and failure analysis
- o.ozdemir@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2159

Jahir Pabon
Associate Teaching Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering - j.pabon@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7151

Himlona Palikhe
Associate Teaching Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering - h.palikhe@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4288

Paul Pei
Assistant Teaching Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering - ji.pei@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4449

Robert Platt
Affiliated Faculty,
jointly appointed in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering & Electrical and Computer Engineering - rplatt@ccs.neu.edu
- 617.373.7681

Nathan Post
Research Associate Professor,
jointly appointed in Civil and Environmental Engineering & Mechanical and Industrial Engineering 
Srinivasan Radhakrishnan
Assistant Teaching Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering - s.radhakrishnan@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8685

Manish Ranjit
Assistant Teaching Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering - m.ranjit@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2305

Jeffrey W. Ruberti
Professor,
Bioengineering Tissue engineering of load-bearing matrix (bone, cornea); bioreactor design; multi-scale mechanobiochemistry; statistical mechanics; energetics microscopy; high-resolution imaging; biopolymer self-assembly
- j.ruberti@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3984

Vinod Sahney
Professor Emeritus,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Health care initiatives; industrial engineering; operations research

Shahin Shahrampour
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Machine learning, optimization and control, distributed and sequential learning, with a focus on developing computationally efficient methods for data analytics
- s.shahrampour@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5750

Sandra Shefelbine
Associate Dean for Space and Special 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 Prosthetics and wearable robotics design and control, gait rehabilitation, preference optimization, and machine learning

Hanumant Singh
Professor,
jointly appointed in Electrical and Computer Engineering & Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Machine Learning for Fisheries, SLAM in the presence of Dynamic Moving Objects, Counter UAS methodologies , Manipulation Underwater, and Imaging in Visually Degraded Environments including underwater and in polar regions
- ha.singh@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7286

Rifat Sipahi
Professor and Associate Chair for Research Affairs,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Control systems and mechatronics; stability analysis and control synthesis of dynamical systems with delays; interplay between stability, delays, and graphs; control-systems-aided human-machine systems; engineering education research; disability research; systems biology
- r.sipahi@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.6011

Kyle Skene
Senior Student Services and Data Manager,
Cooperative Education - k.skene@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2353

Bridget Smyser
Teaching Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering - b.smyser@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5142

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

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
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.neu.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
Assistant 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

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

Kelly White
Senior Business Manager,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering - k.white@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3603

John “Peter” Whitney
Assistant 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

Ibrahim Zeid
Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Mechanics; personalized medicine; simulation techniques and complex networks analysis
- zeid@coe.neu.edu
- 617.373.3817

Yi Zheng
Associate Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Nanoscale thermal transport; Nanoengineered materials; Multifunctional composites; Microfluidics; Chemical and biological nanosensors; Renewable energy harvesting; Thermophotovoltaics; Photon-based radiative cooling
- y.zheng@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5558

Hongli (Julie) Zhu
Associate Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Energy storage; Advanced manufacturing; Multifunctional bio-inspired material from nature; Nano/microfabrication of devices and materials; Bendable, implantable, and biocompatible electronics; Investigations of sustainable biomaterial, like cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin, in life science and engineering
- h.zhu@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2735

Nathanial Ziegler
Associate Co-op Coordinator & Data Strategy Lead for Co-op,
Cooperative Education - n.ziegler@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3478