Faculty and Staff Directory

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
Assistant 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
Associate 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
Electronic Lab Technician,
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

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
Affiliated Faculty,
Mechanical and Industrial 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,
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