Department Directory

Saeed Amal
Assistant Research Professor,
Bioengineering Artificial Intelligent including Deep Learning and Machine Learning for Healthcare, Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Image Processing for Healthcare, Recommender Systems for Healthcare

Mansoor Amiji
University Distinguished Professor,
jointly appointed in Pharmaceutical Sciences & Chemical Engineering Polymeric biomaterials, drug delivery systems, nanomedical technologies
- m.amiji@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3137

Rouzbeh Amini
Associate Professor,
jointly appointed in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering & Bioengineering Biomechanics, mechanobiology, biotransport
- r.amini@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7688

Javier Apfeld
Affiliated Faculty,
Bioengineering Our goal is to determine how the brain regulates aging and resilience to stress.
- j.apfeld@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4495

Anand Asthagiri
Associate Professor,
Bioengineering cell and tissue engineering, quantitative principles of cancer cell biology and developmental biology
- a.asthagiri@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2996

Joseph Ayers
Affiliated Faculty,
jointly appointed in Bioengineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering & Electrical and Computer Engineering Development of underwater robots for civil infrastructure and explosive sensing; neurophysiology and behavior biomimetics
- j.ayers@northeastern.edu
- (781) 581-7370

Ambika Bajpayee
Associate Professor,
Bioengineering drug delivery; bio-electrostatics; transport phenomena in biological systems; biomechanics; osteoarthritis
- a.bajpayee@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7018

Sumner Barenberg
Professor of the Practice,
Bioengineering Design Medical Implants; Medical Implant Due Diligence; Biomaterials, Biopolymers, Biomemetics, Polymer Physics; Biodegradation; Interfacial Phenomena, Chemotaxis, Accelerated Aging
- s.barenberg@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7805

Chiara Bellini
Associate Professor,
Bioengineering Diseases of the cardiovascular system; effects of cellmediated growth and remodeling processes on tissue and organ mechanics
- c.bellini@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2550

Sidi A. Bencherif
Assistant Professor,
Chemical Engineering polymer chemistry and engineering; biomaterials; biomedical engineering; drug delivery; tissue engineering; regenerative medicine; immunotherapy; immunoengineering; vaccines
- s.bencherif@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7103

Penny Beuning
Affiliated Faculty,
Bioengineering chemical biology and biotechnology; DNA replication and repair; enzyme function
- p.beuning@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2865

Dana Brooks
Research Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Biomedical signal and image processing; medical imaging; statistical signal processing; inverse problems; electrocardiography; bio-optical imaging; magnetic resonance imaging; transcranial neuromodulation; estimation of protein conformations from Xray scattering; regularization; optimization
- brooks@ece.northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3352

Rebecca L. Carrier
Professor & Associate Chair of Research,
Chemical Engineering Intestinal tissue engineering, retinal regenerative medicine, oral drug delivery
- r.carrier@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7126

Samuel Chung
Assistant Professor,
Bioengineering Brain cell regeneration, automated microscopy and laser surgery, user-friendly and low-cost fluorescence microscopy
- s.chung@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7805

Sally Conant
Associate Co-op Coordinator Global Engineering & Assistant Director, Global, Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering, and Civil & Environmental Engineering,
Global Engineering Co-op - s.conant@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.6373

Arthur J. Coury
University Distinguished Professor,
Chemical Engineering Polymeric biomaterials for medical products such as implantable electronic devices, hydrogel-based devices and drug delivery systems
- a.coury@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2525

Erin J. Cram
Affiliated Faculty,
Bioengineering Cell migration and mechanotransduction in C. elegans, improving production of drug compounds by medicinal plants
- e.cram@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7533