Faculty and Staff Directory
Mansoor Amiji
Professor,
jointly appointed in
Pharmaceutical Sciences & Chemical Engineering
Polymeric biomaterials, drug delivery systems, nanomedical technologies
- m.amiji@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3137
Javier Apfeld
Affiliated Faculty,
Bioengineering Studies how protein networks transmit oxidative information in health and with aging in a simple model organism, the nematode C. elegans.
- 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 & 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
Assistant 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
Anxhela Becolli
Administrative Access Assistant,
Bioengineering - a.becolli@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2031
Chiara Bellini
Assistant 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 characterization, new approaches to biomaterials design, injectable 3D polymer scaffolds, tissue engineering (e.g. liver, skin), controlled delivery of drugs/cells, biomaterial-based cancer immunotherapies.
- s.bencherif@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7103
Penny Beuning
Affiliated Faculty,
Bioengineering Chemical biology and biotechnology
- p.beuning@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2865
Patrick Bradley
Postdoctoral Research Associate,
Bioengineering - p.bradley@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.6405
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.neu.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 control, particulate and chemical defects in semiconductor manufacturing, high rate nanomanufacturing, NEMS devices and nanomaterials based nanoelectronics
- busnaina@coe.neu.edu
- 617.373.2992
Isen Calderon
Postdoctoral Research Associate,
Bioengineering - i.calderon@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4858
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
Paul Champion
Affiliated Faculty,
Bioengineering Experimental Biological Physics, inelastic light scattering, ultrafast pump-probe laser spectroscopy
- p.champion@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5705
Samuel Chung
Assistant Professor,
Bioengineering brain cell regeneration, automated microscopy and laser surgery, user-friendly and low-cost fluorescence microscopy
Heather Clark
Professor,
jointly appointed in
Bioengineering & Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Optical nanosensors for biological analysis
- h.clark@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3091
Sally Conant
Associate Co-op Coordinator,
Global Engineering Co-op - s.conant@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.6373
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
Liz Creamer
First-Year & Bioengineering (A-K) Academic Advisor,
Undergraduate Academic Advising - e.creamer@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2154
Guohao Dai
Associate Professor,
Bioengineering 3-D bioprinting technology, stem cells technology and vascular bioengineering
- g.dai@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2207
Jack Dennerlein
Affiliated Faculty,
Bioengineering musculoskeletal disorders; work place injury prevention and health; occupational biomechanics
- j.dennerlein@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5428
Charles DiMarzio
Associate Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Optics, microscopy, coherent detection, interaction of light and sound waves, hyperspectral imaging, diffusive optical tomography and ultrasound, landmine detection, magneto-optic sensors, and multi-model imaging. Activities include computer modeling, designing, building, and testing of hardware, and processing the resulting data
- dimarzio@ece.neu.edu
- 617.373.2034
Eno E. Ebong
Associate Professor,
Chemical Engineering Study the means by which endothelial cell mechanotransduction occurs in order to prevent or promote atherosclerosis
- e.ebong@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8744
Ed Emmott
Postdoctoral Research Associate,
Bioengineering Single-cell proteomics, Ribosome-mediated translational regulation, Virus replication & Virus-host interactions.
- e.emmott@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5473
Deniz Erdogmus
Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering machine learning, signal and image analytics, cyber-human systems
- erdogmus@ece.neu.edu
- 617.373.3021
Hui Fang
Assistant Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Nano-electronics, bio-electronics, materials surfaces and interfaces
- h.fang@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2060
Qianqian Fang
Assistant 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 magnetic resonance imaging and neurodegenerative disease
- c.ferris@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3083
Edgar D. Goluch
Associate Professor,
Chemical Engineering Detection of biomolecules at the nanoscale, specifically inside micro and nanofluidic channels. This is applied to a broad range of scientific fields including: biophysics, micro and systems biology, ecology, environmental sensing, and analytical instrumentation
- e.goluch@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3500
Benjamin Greenvall
Research Access Assistant,
Bioengineering - b.greenvall@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2031
Christopher Hasson
Affiliated Faculty,
Bioengineering to understand how the complex interactions between the nervous system, musculoskeletal system, and the environment affect movement control and learning in humans
- c.hasson@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8745
Michael Jaeggli
Associate Teaching Professor,
Bioengineering - m.jaeggli@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.6241
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; workload characterization
- kaeli@ece.neu.edu
- 617.373.5413
Alain Karma
Affiliated Faculty,
Bioengineering computational modeling of cardiac arrhythmia mechanisms from cellular to organ scales including systems biology approaches
- a.karma@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2929
Karen Kelley
Senior Co-op Coordinator & Assistant Director,
Cooperative Education - k.kelley@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3430
Stephanie Kirby
Assistant Coop Coordinator,
Cooperative Education - s.kirby@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3460
Laura Kissane
Student Services and Data Manager,
Cooperative Education - l.kissane@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5239
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
Assistant 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
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
Danielle Levac
Affiliated Faculty,
Bioengineering virtual reality; video games; motor learning; rehabilitation; physical therapy; cerebral palsy; stroke; knowledge translation
- d.levac@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5198
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
- e.levine@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5263
Herbert Levine
University Distinguished Professor,
jointly appointed in
Physics & Bioengineering
mechanics of motility at both single cell and multicellular levels, genetic and metabolic networks underlying phenotypic changes en route to cancer metastasis, effective detection by and activation of the adaptive immune system
- h.levine@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2902
Kim Lewis
Affiliated Faculty,
Bioengineering molecular microbiology; antimicrobial drug tolerance; drug discovery
- k.lewis@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8238
Jiahe Li
Assistant Professor,
Bioengineering Oral vaccine, host and oral microbiome interactions, microbiome engineering, and protein engineering-based cancer immunotherapy
- jiah.li@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3233
Yingzi Lin
Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Human-machine interactions, interface design and user experiences, system integration and evaluation; smart systems and nonintrusive sensors, human friendly mechatronics, human state detection and information fusion; human factors in transportation and healthcare
- yi.lin@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8610
Carol Livermore
Associate Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering MEMS-enabled systems for assistive technologies, energy harvesting, and microscale vacuum applications; origami-enabled microfluidics and tissue engineering; carbon nanomaterials
- livermore@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4922
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
- l.makowski@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3006
Alex Makriyannis
Affiliated Faculty,
Bioengineering Biotechnology and bio-organic chemistry
- a.makriyannis@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4200
Helen Markewich
Lab Ops & Safety Specialist,
Bioengineering - h.markewich@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8591
Waleed Meleis
Interim Associate Dean for Graduate Education,
Office of the Dean Combinatorial optimization, algorithm design and analysis, scheduling, machine learning, parallel computing.
- w.meleis@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3023