Department Directory
118 Items found
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,
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
Sidi A. Bencherif
Assistant Research 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
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
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
Senior Co-op Coordinator, Global Engineering & Associate 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
Guohao Dai
Professor,
Bioengineering 3-D bioprinting technology, stem cells technology and vascular bioengineering
- g.dai@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2207
Allison Dennis
Associate Professor,
Chemical Engineering Semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) for biomedical imaging and biosensing
Charles DiMarzio
Associate Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Optics, microscopy, coherent detection, interaction of light and sound
waves, hyperspectral imaging, diffusive optical tomography multi-model
imaging and remote sensing. Activities include computer modeling,
designing, building, and testing of hardware, and processing the
resulting data
- dimarzio@ece.northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2034
Eno E. Ebong
Associate Professor,
jointly appointed in
Chemical Engineering & Bioengineering
Studying the means by which endothelial cell mechanotransduction occurs in order to prevent or promote diseases related to blood vessel dysfunction
- e.ebong@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8744
Deniz Erdogmus
Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Statistical signal and image analysis, machine learning, neural interfaces, biomedical data analysis, human-intent inference for CPS
- erdogmus@ece.northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3021
Qianqian Fang
Associate Professor,
Bioengineering Innovations in translational medical imaging devices to better diagnose cancers, low-cost point-of-care diagnostic tools to delivery life-saving medicines to the resource-poor regions, and high performance computing tools to facilitate the development of the next-generation imaging methods
- q.fang@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3829
Craig Ferris
Affiliated Faculty,
Bioengineering Mild head injury and brain clearance of waste
- c.ferris@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3083
Kevin Fu
Professor,
jointly appointed in
Electrical and Computer Engineering & Khoury College of Computer Sciences
protecting emerging sensor technology in biomedical engineering and cyberphysical systems
Benjamin Gyori
Associate Professor,
jointly appointed in
Khoury College of Computer Sciences & Bioengineering
Intersection of systems biology, bioinformatics, and artificial intelligence to understand how biological cells work and react to drugs and environmental signals
Christa Haase
Assistant Professor,
jointly appointed in
Bioengineering & Physics
Role of spatial organization in directing biological function, development of a new generation of spatial and single-cell analysis tools
Cynthia Hajal
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Tissue engineering, microfluidics, cancer research
Aileen Huang-Saad
Associate Professor,
Bioengineering Entrepreneurship education microenvironments and their impact on the engagement of diverse populations, the influence of I-Corps on university ecosystems, and transforming BME education through instructional design
- a.huang-saad@northeastern.edu
- 207-553-3925
Michael Jaeggli
Associate Teaching Professor and Associate Chair for Master's Education and Global Operation,
Bioengineering - m.jaeggli@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.6241
Miten Jain
Assistant Professor,
jointly appointed in
Bioengineering & Physics
Nanopore technology, single-cell techniques, computational biology
Neel Joshi
Affiliated Faculty,
Bioengineering Engineered living materials, synthetic biology, biochemistry, protein self-assembly
- ne.joshi@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2824
Alison Joyce
Associate Co-op Coordinator,
Cooperative Education - a.joyce@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7182
David Kaeli
COE Distinguished Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Computer architecture; GPUs; heterogeneous computing; performance analysis; security and information assurance; hardware reliability and recovery; Big Data analytics; and workload characterization
- kaeli@ece.northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5413
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
Tali Konry
Affiliated Faculty,
Bioengineering Single cell functional multi-omic analysis, Phenotypic drug profiling in droplet microfluidics for better targeting of drug-resistant tumors, Live single cell functional phenotyping and cell-cell communication in droplet nano-liter reactors
- t.konry@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3224
Abigail N. Koppes
Associate Professor,
Chemical Engineering Bioelectric medicine, development of novel interventions and tissue engineered platforms for nerve regeneration and repair, body-on-a-chip for enteric-gut interactions
- a.koppes@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.6221
Kristina Kutsukos
Assistant Co-op Coordinator,
Global Engineering Co-op - k.kutsukos@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3808
Timothy Lannin
Associate Teaching Professor and Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies,
Bioengineering - t.lannin@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7805
Carolyn W.T. Lee-Parsons
Associate Professor,
jointly appointed in
Chemical Engineering & Chemistry & Chemical Biology
Production of valuable pharmaceutical compounds from plant cell cultures, specifically the production of important anti-cancer drug molecules from cell cultures of Catharanthus roseus
- ca.lee@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3634
Erel Levine
Associate Professor,
Bioengineering Systems and synthetic biology of the Brain-Immune-Gut super-system; Interactions among hosts and microbes; Deep learning approaches to interpreting biological data and designing biomedical solutions
Herbert Levine
University Distinguished Professor,
jointly appointed in
Physics & Bioengineering
Physical modeling of cancer progression, metastasis and interaction with the immune system. Most recent interests include the role of metabolic plasticity in these processes and the co-evolution of the tumor and the adaptive immune system. Other areas include spatial organization of the actin cytoskeleton, the mechanics of collective cell motility, and the analysis of genetic circuits involved in cell fate decisions.
- h.levine@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7201
Kim Lewis
Affiliated Faculty,
Bioengineering Antimicrobial drug tolerance, antibiotic discovery, microbiome therapeutics
- k.lewis@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8238
Elizabeth Libby
Assistant Professor,
Bioengineering Synthetic biology, microbiology, biosensor development
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
Mingyang Lu
Assistant Professor,
Bioengineering Computational systems biology, an integration of mathematical modeling and bioinformatics for studying gene regulatory networks, single cell genomics, epithelial-mesenchymal transition, coarse-graining, reverse engineering, machine learning, stochasticity and heterogeneity in gene expression
Kimberly Lurie
Assistant Co-op Coordinator,
Cooperative Education - k.lurie@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3763
Lee Makowski
Professor and Chair,
jointly appointed in
Bioengineering & Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Image and signal processing as applied to biophysical data designed to answer fundamental questions about the molecular basis of living systems, and progression of Alzheimer's Disease
- l.makowski@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3006
Waleed Meleis
Vice Provost for Graduate Education,
Office of the Provost Combinatorial optimization, function approximation for large-scale machine learning, platforms for large-scale social experimentation, assistive technology
- w.meleis@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3023
Caroline Milligan
Senior Student Services and Data Associate,
Cooperative Education - c.milligan@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8434
Mona Minkara
Assistant Professor,
Bioengineering Pulmonary surfactant (PS), Surfactant immunoproteins, Innate immune response, Computational methods, Computational modeling, Molecular Dynamics, Monte Carlo Simulations, Interfacial Phenomena, Biological interfaces, Therapeutics, Molecular Biophysics, Computational chemistry, Bioengineering, STEM Accessibility
- m.minkara@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2031
Miguel Mireles Nunez
Associate Research Scientist,
Bioengineering - m.mirelesnuez@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3829
Lorraine Mountain
Assistant Dean & Senior Co-op Coordinator,
Cooperative Education Departmental Programs: Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Data Analytics, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Energy Systems, Engineering Management, Engineering Public Policy, Environmental Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, Operations Research, Robotics, and Sustainable Building Systems.
- l.mountain@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2966
Mark Niedre
Associate Dean for PhD Education,
Office of the Dean Biomedical optics and non-invasive imaging, rare cell detection and tracking in the body, ultrafast time-domain diffuse optical imaging, image reconstruction and biomedical signal processing
- m.niedre@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5410
Stephanie Noble
Assistant Professor,
jointly appointed in
Psychology & Bioengineering
statistical and computational tools to facilitate more precise human neuroscience inference and prediction
Jessica Oakes
Associate Professor,
Bioengineering Pulmonary physiology, biofluids and transport phenomenon, computational biomechanics, magnetic resonance imaging, multi-scale modeling
- j.oakes@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7080
Mary Jo Ondrechen
Affiliated Faculty,
Bioengineering Enzyme catalysis; functional genomics; modeling of enzyme substrate interactions; drug discovery; bioinformatics; protein design
- m.ondrechen@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2856
Taskin Padir
Director,
Institute for Experiential Robotics Experiential robotics, human-robot teaming at the extremes, embodied artificial intelligence
- t.padir@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8114
Harikrishnan Parameswaran
Associate Professor,
Bioengineering We study cell-cell and cell-extracellular matrix interactions in the airway to understand the fundamental mechanisms that regulate airway caliber and why they fail in diseases like asthma.
- h.parameswaran@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7049
Caroline Pridmore
Academic Operations Manager,
Bioengineering - c.pridmore@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7223
Ayush Ranawade
Postdoctoral Research Associate,
Bioengineering - a.ranawade@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5263
Sara Rouhanifard
Assistant Professor,
Bioengineering Developing chemical approaches to track and quantify important RNA processing events and modifications in single cells; DNA: protein interactions that drive differences in gene expression; understanding differences in RNA expression and the impacts on disease and development
- s.rouhanifard@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2226
Jeffrey W. Ruberti
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
Nora Salmon
Assistant Co-op Coordinator,
Cooperative Education - n.salmon@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3720
Max Sederer
Associate Co-op Coordinator,
Cooperative Education - m.sederer@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.6370
Sandra Shefelbine
Associate Dean for Space and Special 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
Rebecca Sherbo
Assistant Professor,
jointly appointed in
Chemistry and Chemical Biology & Chemical Engineering
Electrochemical and biological ways to make important chemical products from gases and renewable energy
Shiaoming Shi
Associate Teaching Professor,
Bioengineering Cancer detection and drug discovery technologies
- s.shi@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2989
David Simpson
Associate Teaching Professor,
Bioengineering Development of comparative regenerative medicine therapeutics to support human clinical trial design. Additional interests include cardiovascular tissue engineering and stem cell biotechnology
Nikolai Slavov
Associate Professor,
Bioengineering Single-cell proteomics, immunology, cancer drug resistance, translational regulation, quantitative systems biology, mass-spectrometry, macrophage polarization, neurodegenerative diseases
- n.slavov@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.6405
Eduardo Sontag
University Distinguished Professor,
jointly appointed in
Electrical and Computer Engineering & Bioengineering
Feedback control theory, systems biology, cancer, and biomedicine
Bryan Spring
Affiliated Faculty,
Bioengineering targeted photomedicine, biophysical microscopy and cancer biology
- b.spring@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5303
Srinivas Sridhar
Affiliated Faculty,
Bioengineering nanomedicine; neurotechnology; drug delivery, MRI imaging
- s.sridhar@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2930
Armen Stepanyants
Affiliated Faculty,
Bioengineering Theoretical Condensed Matter And Biological Physics
- a.stepanyants@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2944
Dagmar Sternad
University Distinguished Professor,
jointly appointed in
Biology & Electrical and Computer Engineering
Motor control and learning, variability and stability, virtual rehabilitation, dynamic modeling, rhythmic and discrete movements as primitives for action
- d.sternad@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5093
Tao Sun
Assistant Professor,
Bioengineering Focused Ultrasound, Ultrasound Imaging, Neuroimaging, Drug Delivery, Immunomodulation and Immunoengineering, Gliomblastoma, Alzheimer’s Disease
Amir Vahabikashi
Assistant Professor,
Bioengineering Cell and nucleus mechanobiology, soft bioelectronics for organoid/tissue scale mechanobiology and regenerative engineering, mechanotransduction, implantable bioelectronics
Kiran Vanaja
Assistant Research Professor,
Bioengineering Systems biology of signaling networks in cancer (and) therapeutics, metastasis and embryonic development
Jacob Walker
Associate Co-op Coordinator & Assistant Director,
Cooperative Education - jw.walker@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5393
Ning Wang
Professor,
Bioengineering Cellular and molecular mechanomedicine, Cancer cell biology and mechanics, Embryonic stem cell biology and mechanics, Mechanical biotechnologies and their applications to cells, tissues, and organisms, Mechanotransduction: nuclear deformation and gene expression
Meni Wanunu
Professor,
jointly appointed in
Physics & Bioengineering
development of next-generation DNA and RNA sequencing methods; nanopores as molecular sensors; bioinspired sustainability solutions; optical and electrical analysis of biomolecular systems; electron microscopy and electron-beam shaping of nanomaterials
- m.wanunu@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7412
Jing-Ke Weng
Professor,
jointly appointed in
Chemistry & Chemical Biology & Bioengineering
Natural product biochemistry, plant abiotic and biotic interactions, carbon sequestration, agricultural biotechnology, food allergy, drug discovery
Paul Whitford
Affiliated Faculty,
Bioengineering dynamics of large-scale molecular machines, working to identify the physical principles that guide biomolecular dynamics, using molecular simulation approaches to interpret experimental data from a wide range of techniques, including biochemical, small-angle X-ray scattering and cryogenic electron microscopy
- p.whitford@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2952
Mark Williams
Affiliated Faculty,
Bioengineering single molecule biophysics, molecular biophysics
- ma.williams@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5705
Rebecca Willits
Professor and Chairperson,
Chemical Engineering Mechanobiology of neural systems;
Systems for nerve regeneration;
Diversity and equity in engineering
- r.willits@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2989
Raimond Winslow
Professor,
jointly appointed in
Bioengineering, Khoury College of Computer Sciences
& Clinical and Rehabilitation Sciences
Computational modeling of the cardiac myocyte to understand the molecular basis of arrhythmias; machine learning in critical care medicine to identify those patients who require urgent care
Mohammad Abbas Yaseen
Assistant Professor,
Bioengineering Advanced microscopy for minimally invasive, in vivo characterization of brain function
- m.yaseen@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8584
Ke Zhang
Affiliated Faculty,
jointly appointed in
Bioengineering & Chemical Engineering
Polymer Chemistry, Nucleic Acid Chemistry, Nanomedicine
- k.zhang@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4415
Sunny Zhou
Affiliated Faculty,
Bioengineering Bioanalytical Chemistry, Chemical Biology, Enzymology, Protein Chemistry, Protein Engineering, Protein Pharmaceuticals
- Z.Zhou@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4818