Faculty and Staff Directory
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Rouzbeh Amini
Associate Professor,
jointly appointed in
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering & Bioengineering
Biomechanics, mechanobiology, biotransport
- r.amini@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7688
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
Ambika Bajpayee
Associate Professor,
Bioengineering Drug delivery; bio-electrostatics; transport phenomena in biological systems; biomechanics; osteoarthritis
- a.bajpayee@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7018
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
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
Guohao Dai
Professor,
Bioengineering 3-D bioprinting technology, stem cells technology and vascular bioengineering
- g.dai@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2207
Lital Davidi
Assistant Professor,
jointly appointed in
Biology & Bioengineering
Phyto-molecular biotechnology, with a focus on biofuels, natural products, and extreme environment adaptation
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
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
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
Our long-term research goal is to develop and apply innovative spatial, single cell and optical technologies that will transform our understanding of cellular communication in health and disease and use this insight to develop new treatments.
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
Miten Jain
Assistant Professor,
jointly appointed in
Bioengineering & Physics
Nanopore technology, single-cell techniques, computational biology
Abraham Joy
Professor and Chair,
Bioengineering Design and use of biomaterials for wound healing; antimicrobial/antibiofilm strategies; soft-tissue replacement; polymer condensates; and sustained delivery of therapeutics
- a.joy@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2817
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
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
Lee Makowski
Professor,
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
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
Mark Niedre
Associate Dean of 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
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
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
COE Distinguished 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
Sandra Shefelbine
Associate Dean of 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
Nikolai Slavov
Professor,
Bioengineering Single-cell proteomics, immunology, cancer drug resistance, translational regulation, quantitative systems biology, mass spectrometry, RNA decoding, protein synthesis and degradation, 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
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
Lei Wang
Assistant Professor,
jointly appointed in
Bioengineering & Biology
Wang laboratory integrates synthetic biology, tissue engineering, and microfluidics to investigate the design principles underlying cell state transitions, establish human physiological and pathological models using hiPSCs, and develop next-generation therapeutics for previously intractable diseases.
Ning Wang
Professor,
Bioengineering Cellular and molecular mechanobiology, mechanomedicine, and mechanohealth; cancer cell biology and mechanics; stem cell biology and mechanics; mechanomemory and mechanoresilience, mechanobiotechnologies and their applications to cells, tissues, and organisms
Meni Wanunu
Professor,
jointly appointed in
Physics & Bioengineering
Our group investigates biomolecules at the single-molecule level. We develop nanopore-based and other nanotechnology-based methods for probing the structure and dynamic behavior of biomolecules. We employ optical waveguides and single-molecule enzymatic approaches for RNA sequencing, and utilize engineered nanopore sensors for applications in single-molecule proteomics. We are experimentalists, but we also use advanced computational tools to perform big data analysis.
- 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
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