Department Directory

Saeed Amal
Assistant Research Professor,
Bioengineering Artificial intelligence 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,
Bioengineering & 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 and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies,
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

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

Caroline Blassick
Assistant Teaching Professor,
Bioengineering Single-cell optogenetics for the induction of gene expression and selection of individual Escherichia coli cells; control and characterization of temporal dynamics and cell-to-cell heterogeneity of gene regulatory networks in E. coli

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

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

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

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