Department Directory
Thomas C. Sheahan
Executive Vice Provost,
Office of the Provost Soft ground engineering, coastal adaptation, education and training for engineers and scientists
- t.sheahan@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3995
Craig Shillaber
Associate Teaching Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Geotechnical subsurface characterization through in-situ and laboratory methods; quantification of construction energy and carbon; sustainable geotechnics
- c.shillaber@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3825
Michael B. Silevitch
Robert D. Black Professor, COE Distinguished Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Subsurface sensing and imaging systems, detection of explosives-related anomalies, engineered system development and engineering leadership
- m.silevitch@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3033
Aron Stubbins
Professor,
jointly appointed in
Marine and Environmental Sciences, Chemistry and Chemical Biology
& Civil and Environmental Engineering
Environmental chemistry; geochemistry; the carbon cycle; freshwater, coastal and ocean biogeochemistry; feedbacks between natural biogeochemical cycles and climate change; permafrost; black carbon; aquatic microplastics
- a.stubbins@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5872
Robert R. Tillman
Professor Emeritus,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Cooperative education; professional ethics; education research
- r.tillman@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3469
Ali Touran
Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Risk assessment; construction cost/schedule uncertainty; project delivery systems; simulation; construction productivity
- atouran@coe.northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5508
Eleonora Tronci
Assistant Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering applied machine learning for damage assessment in civil structures; multi-domain transfer learning; performance and structural assessment of offshore wind structures
Geoffrey C. Trussell
Chair and Doherty Professor ,
Marine and Environmental Sciences Evolutionary and community ecology; coastal sustainability
- g.trussell@northeastern.edu
- (781) 581-7370
Muhammad Usama
Postdoctoral Research Associate,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Traffic Emission Modelling, Active Transportation, Intelligent Transportation Systems.
Julia Varshavsky
Assistant Professor,
jointly appointed in
Department of Health Sciences & Civil and Environmental Engineering
Environmental chemical mixtures and maternal-child health outcomes, intervention strategies, systematic review, risk assessment, biomonitoring, community-engaged research, green chemistry/engineering
- j.varshavsky@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7348
Sara Wadia-Fascetti
Professor and Vice Provost of PhD Network,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Condition assessment methodologies for infrastructure systems; life cycle and life span analysis; structural and earthquake engineering uncertainty
- s.wadia-fascetti@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5828
Ming L. Wang
COE Distinguished Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Network-wide pavement and bridge deck inspections: sensor technology for infrastructure; saliva-based sensor technology for disease diagnosis and monitoring; structural health monitoring for bridges; subsurface fault detection using air-coupled GPR systems
- mi.wang@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3900
Qi “Ryan” Wang
Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Research,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Urban and social resilience; geo-social networking; coupled, human-natural systems, natural disaster response and evacuation; urban computing
- q.wang@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7984
Irvine W. Wei
Professor Emeritus,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Ozonation & Chlorination of Water, Advanced Oxidation Processes, Chemical Precipitation & Coagulation, Kinetics & Mechanism of Chemical Processes
- iwei@coe.northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3368