Faculty and Staff Directory
64 Items found
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
Rouzbeh Amini
Associate Professor,
jointly appointed in
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
& Bioengineering
Biomechanics, mechanobiology, biotransport
- r.amini@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7688
Ruobing Bai
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Multifunctional materials towards durable, intelligent, and sustainable mechanical systems
- ru.bai@northeastern.edu
- 617-373-7150
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
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
- a.busnaina@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2992
Randall Erb
Professor and Associate Chair for Research Affairs,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Advanced manufacturing, thermal management and RF materials, radiation shielding.
- 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
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
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 and Director of Global Programs,
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
Megan Hofmann
Assistant Professor,
jointly appointed in
Khoury College of Computer Sciences
& Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Accessibility and fabrication, digital fabrication in healthcare, automatic machine knitting
David Horsley
Professor,
jointly appointed in
Electrical and Computer Engineering
& Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Micro-electromechanical Systems (MEMS), design and manufacturing of microfabricated sensors and actuators, mechatronics and control systems.
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
Safa Jamali
Associate 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
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
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
Associate Dean of Graduate Education,
Office of the Dean
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
Hyeon Yu Kim
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Mechanobiology, tissue engineering, cardiovascular diseases, stem cells, organoids, 3D printing
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
COE Distinguished Professor and Chair,
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
- MIE-Chair@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8610
Jeffrey Ian Lipton
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Robotics, 3D Printing, and Mechanical Metamaterials with applications in Manufacturing
Yongmin Liu
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 Director of 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
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 and Vice President for Business Development,
Innovation Campus at Burlington
Research leadership, including complex multi-investigator and multi-institutional programs, research administration, compliance, development, finance, and technology transition. Review leader of multi-billion-dollar nation-scale research enterprises.
- 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; statistical and machine learning estimation and forecasting
Kayse Lee Maass
Associate Professor and Director of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research,
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
Craig Maloney
Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Undergraduate Education,
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
Tugce Martagan
Associate Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Stochastic modeling and optimization, Markov decision processes, and game theory with applications in the (bio)pharmaceutical industry
Jose Martinez Lorenzo
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
Hameed Metghalchi
Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Thermodynamics, combustion, chemical kinetics, renewable energy, exergy analysis
- m.metghalchi@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2973
Sinan Müftü
COE Distinguished 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; helmet and brain mechanics.
- s.muftu@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4743
Hamid Nayeb-Hashemi
Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Biomechanics and mechanics
- h.nayeb-hashemi@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5515
Beth Simone Noveck
Professor,
jointly appointed in
School of Law
& Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Industrial and software engineering; solving public problems
Ozan Cagatay 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
Peter Schindler
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Discovery of novel materials for renewable energy applications using high-throughput density functional theory calculations and data-driven materials property predictions. Additional focus on surface science of thin-film growth, semiconductor fabrication, and heterogeneous catalysis.
Shahin Shahrampour
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
- Optimization and Control
- Multi-Agent Systems
- Machine Learning
- Reinforcement Learning
- s.shahrampour@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5750
Sandra Shefelbine
Senior Associate Dean of Strategic 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
Wearable robotics and machine learning for personalized gait rehabilitation systems
Hanumant Singh
Professor,
jointly appointed in
Electrical and Computer Engineering
, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
& Institute of Experiential Robotics
Geometric and Machine Learning based methods for mapping, SLAM and field deployments of Unmanned Aerial, Marine and Ground vehicles in extreme environments
- ha.singh@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7286
Rifat Sipahi
Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
control theory and network control for autonomous and human-in-the-loop systems (robotics, transportation, manufacturing)
- r.sipahi@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.6011
Seungmoon Song
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Modeling the neuromechanics of human movement and applying it to assistive devices and rehabilitation treatment
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
Xiaoyu Tang
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Experimental and theoretical fluid mechanics in multiphase and multiscale systems for advanced manufacturing, energy, and medical applications
- 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
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
Associate 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
Multi-robot systems, planning and control, distributed autonomy
- y.yazicioglu@northeastern.edu
- (617) 373-4856
Sze Zheng Yong
Associate Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Control, estimation, planning, learning and analysis of hybrid systems, with
applications to autonomous, robotic and cyber-physical dynamic systems
and their safety, robustness and resilience.
Yoseob Yoon
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Optoelectronic and mechanical properties of quantum materials, van der Waals heterostructures, engineering light-matter interactions, ultrafast optical and THz spectroscopy, THz-induced phenomena, coherent control of material properties
Xubo Yue
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Federated data analytics, Bayesian optimization, continuous optimization, Gaussian processes, deep learning
Ibrahim Zeid
Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Mechanics; personalized medicine; simulation techniques and complex networks analysis
- I.Zeid@northeastern.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; Interfacial water desalination; Battery thermal management system; Proton-exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell; Biomass hydrogel; Energy storage system; Nanophotonics; Light-matter interaction
- y.zheng@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5558
Hongli (Julie) Zhu
Associate Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
All solid state batteries; Flow Batteries; Batteries fast charge; High energy density batteries; Advanced manufacturing; Sustainable biomass-derived material from Nature; Bendable, implantable, and biocompatible devices; and fundamental investigations of cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin, including materials–structure–performance–application correlations.
- h.zhu@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2735
Juner Zhu
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Electro-chemo-mechanics, energy storage systems, scientific machine learning, battery sustainability and safety