Faculty and Staff Directory
66 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 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
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
- busnaina@coe.northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2992
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
Cynthia Hajal
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Tissue engineering, microfluidics, cancer
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
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
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
Professor and Interim 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
- yi.lin@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8610
Jeffrey Ian Lipton
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering 3D Printing and Robotics
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 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
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; statistical and machine learning estimation and forecasting
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
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
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
- metghalchi@coe.northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2973
Mohsen Moghaddam
Associate Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Human-Machine Interaction, Extended Reality, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- mohsen@northeastern.edu
- +1 617 373 6256
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
- 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 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 of 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
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 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
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
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
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
- zeid@coe.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 electronics; Investigations of sustainable biomaterial, like cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin, 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