Faculty and Staff Directory

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 Studies how the brain regulates aging and resilience to oxidative stress in the nematode C. elegans
- j.apfeld@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4495

Ian Armstrong
Lab Operationss & Safety Manager,
Bioengineering - i.armstrong@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8591

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
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 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.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-scale defects in semiconductor manufacturing; high rate nanomanufacturing; power electronics, RF, NEMS devices and nanomaterials based nanoelectronics, flexible and hybrid electronics
- busnaina@coe.neu.edu
- 617.373.2992

Isen Calderon
Postdoctoral Research Associate,
Bioengineering - i.calderon@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4858

Rebecca L. Carrier
Professor,
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; proton tunneling
- 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; biomechanics of human movement
- 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 and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies,
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 and Vice Chair of Research,
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 neural interfaces, biomimetic electronics, electronic materials & organisms
- h.fang@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2060

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 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 in micro and nanofluidic channels; biophysics; micro and systems biology; environmental sensing; 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