Faculty and Staff Directory
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
Cydney Hodder
Associate Co-op Coordinator,
Cooperative Education - c.hodder@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3839
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
Beverly Kris Jaeger-Helton
Teaching Professor and Director of Industrial Engineering Undergraduate Curriculum,
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
- bk.jaeger-helton@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5995
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
Noah Japhet
Academic Support Coordinator,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering - n.japhet@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2186
Mohammad Amin Javadi
Assistant Teaching Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Manufacturing Execution System, Internet of Things, Integrated Automation
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
Nivii Kalavakonda Chandrasekar
Assistant Teaching Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering robot manipulation, machine learning, and controls, with an interest in
courses on robot learning for unstructured and dynamic human-robot interaction scenarios
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
Alain Karma
Affiliated Faculty,
jointly appointed in
Bioengineering & Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
computational modeling of cardiac arrhythmia mechanisms from cellular to organ scales including systems biology approaches
- a.karma@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2929
Rick Kennedy
Makerspace Manager,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering - ri.kennedy@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5636
Hyeon Yu Kim
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Mechanobiology, tissue engineering, cardiovascular diseases, stem cells, organoids, 3D printing
Haris Koutsopoulos
Professor and 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
- g.kowalski@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2971
Victoria Lee
Assistant Co-op Coordinator,
Cooperative Education - vi.lee@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3762
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 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 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
Georgia Looney
Associate 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 and Vice President for Business Development,
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
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
Ben Macalister
Lab Operations Manager,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering - b.macalister@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3707