Faculty and Staff Directory
Emanuel Melachrinoudis
Professor Emeritus,
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, exergy analysis
- m.metghalchi@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2973
Sarah Mockler
Senior Co-op Coordinator & Assistant Director,
Cooperative Education
- s.mockler@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7299
Lorraine Mountain
Assistant Dean & Senior Co-op Coordinator,
Cooperative Education
Undergraduate programs across colleges including: COE, COS, DMSB, Khoury, Bouve, CAMD, and CSSH
- l.mountain@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2966
Ronald Mourant
Professor Emeritus,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Virtual Environments; 3D Simulation and Open Source Game Engines
- r.mourant@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3931
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
Hande Musdal Ondemir
Associate 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 Director Departmental Co-op and Senior Co-op Coordinator,
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
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
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
Lauren Pamas
Assistant Co-op Coordinator,
Cooperative Education
- l.pamas@northeastern.edu
- 617-373-3478
Paul Pei
Associate 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
- r.platt@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7681
Manish Ranjit
Associate Teaching Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
- m.ranjit@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2305
Jeffrey W. Ruberti
COE Distinguished 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
Peter Schindler
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
AI for Materials | Computational Materials Science
Shahin Shahrampour
Associate 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
Bridget Smyser
Teaching Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
- b.smyser@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5142
Sivasubramanian Somu
Executive Director of Core Research Facility,
Kostas Nanoscale Research Center
- s.somu@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5848
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
Sivarit (Tony) Sultornsanee
Associate Teaching Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Internet of Things (IoT) and intelligent factory transformation; Price recommendation and optimization using machine learning models; Image search engines and semantic segmentation; Applications of artificial intelligence in business; and Biomedical signal processing for healthcare applications
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
COE Distinguished Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Magnetoelectric materials and devices for wireless power and biomedical sensing
- n.sun@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3351
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
Computational Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer for Plasma Torches related to Additive Manufacturing technology, Fluid-Surface Interactions for Newtonian and non-Newtonian liquid droplets, Droplets in Levitated State, Droplets in Vacuum, Nano-sensors
- m.taslim@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5514