Faculty and Staff Directory
![Serena Alexander](https://cee.northeastern.edu/wp-content/uploads/profiles/cee/alexander-s-173x230.jpg)
Serena Alexander
Associate Professor,
jointly appointed in
School for Public Policy and Urban Affairs & Civil and Environmental Engineering
Climate change, sustainable and resilient transportation systems, environmental policy
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Akram N. Alshawabkeh
George A. Snell Professor of Engineering and University Distinguished Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Geoenvironmental engineering, soil and groundwater remediation; electrokinetic and electrochemical processes; contaminant fate and transport environmental restoration
- a.alshawabkeh@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3994
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R. Edward Beighley
COE Distinguished Professor and Associate Chair for Faculty,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Hydrologic and hydraulic modeling; remote sensing of the hydrologic cycle; hydrologic impacts of climate and/or land use change; flood hazard and risk assessment
- r.beighley@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3368
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Dionisio P. Bernal
Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering System identification, fault detection and fault localization, earthquake engineering, soil structure interaction, structural stability
- bernal@coe.northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4417
![Sujit Bhandari](https://cee.northeastern.edu/wp-content/uploads/profiles/cee/bhandari-s.jpg)
Sujit Bhandari
Laboratory Manager,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Large-scale structural testing
- su.bhandari@northeastern.edu
- (781) 238-8419
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Kurt Braun
Senior Laboratory Technician,
Civil and Environmental Engineering - k.braun@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5931
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Luca Caracoglia
Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Structural dynamics; wind engineering; wind energy; wind-induced vibration; fluid-structure interaction; linear and nonlinear cable dynamics; climate change
- lucac@coe.northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5186
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Qin Jim Chen
Professor,
jointly appointed in
Civil and Environmental Engineering & Marine and Environmental Sciences
Coastal engineering and science, particularly in the development and application of state-of-the-art numerical models to address coastal resiliency and sustainability
- q.chen@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5465
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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
![Shannon Creedon](https://cee.northeastern.edu/wp-content/uploads/profiles/coe/creedon-s-173x230.jpg)
Shannon Creedon
Academic Advisor,
Undergraduate Academic Advising - s.creedon@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2154
![David Deeter](https://cee.northeastern.edu/wp-content/uploads/profiles/cee/deeter-d.jpg)
David Deeter
Marketing & Communications Manager,
Civil and Environmental Engineering - d.deeter@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7188
![James Dennedy-Frank](https://cee.northeastern.edu/wp-content/uploads/profiles/cee/dennedy-frank-j.jpg)
Peter "James" Dennedy-Frank
Assistant Professor,
jointly appointed in
Marine and Environmental Sciences & Civil and Environmental Engineering
Ecohydrologic modeling for water resources and conservation
- pjdf@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2426
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Daniel M. Dulaski
Teaching Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Transportation safety; roadway geometry and roadside design; human factors in transportation.
- d.dulaski@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2993
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Matthew J. Eckelman
Associate Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Life cycle assessment and techno-economic analysis, sustainable production and green design, energy systems and emissions modeling, climate change and health, healthcare sustainability
- m.eckelman@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4256
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Ozlem Ergun
COE Distinguished Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Affairs,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Design and management of large-scale networks, supply chain design and resilience, collaboration and crowdsourcing in logistics, humanitarian logistics
- o.ergun@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.6254
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David Fannon
Associate Professor,
jointly appointed in
School of Architecture & Civil and Environmental Engineering
Sustainable and high performance building design; persistent architecture and resilience; human health, safety, and comfort in the built environment.
- d.fannon@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2641
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Loretta A. Fernandez
Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice,
jointly appointed in
Civil and Environmental Engineering & Marine and Environmental Sciences
Environmental organic chemistry; passive sampling methods; transport and transformation of contaminants in built and natural environments
- l.fernandez@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5461
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Stephen Flynn
Professor,
Political Science critical infrastructure resilience; public policy
- s.flynn@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4220
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Peter G. Furth
Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Traffic signal control including transit signal priority and better serving pedestrians; bicycle safety and bicycle network analysis; transit operations analysis
- p.furth@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2447
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Auroop R. Ganguly
COE Distinguished Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Science: Climate Dynamics, Weather Extremes, Hydrology, Hydrometeorology, and Ecology
Engineering: Critical Infrastructructure, Water Resources, Transportation Security, and Lifeline Systems
Data Science: Machine Learning, Network Science, Nonlinear Dynamics, and Extreme Value Theory
Interdisciplinary Methods: Knowledge Guided Data-Driven Sciences and Artificial Intelligence
Convergent Challenge: Environmental Security, Climate Adaptation, and Infrastructure Resilience
- a.ganguly@northeastern.edu
- 617-373-3710 (email preferred)
![Khaled Ghannam](https://cee.northeastern.edu/wp-content/uploads/profiles/cee/ghannam-k.jpg)
Khaled Ghannam
Assistant Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Boundary-layer meteorology, land-atmosphere interactions, air quality modeling, hydroclimatology
![Fatemeh Ghoreishi](https://cee.northeastern.edu/wp-content/uploads/profiles/cee/ghoreishi-f-173x230.jpg)
Fatemeh Ghoreishi
Assistant Professor,
jointly appointed in
Civil and Environmental Engineering & Khoury College of Computer Sciences
Design and decision-making under uncertainty, machine learning and data analysis, Bayesian statistics, multidisciplinary design optimization, autonomous and cyber-physical systems
- f.ghoreishi@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4908
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Tarik Gouhier
Associate Professor,
Marine and Environmental Sciences Population Biology
- t.gouhier@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2061
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Jonathan Grabowski
Professor,
Marine and Environmental Sciences environmental science and policy, fisheries, ecological economics
- j.grabowski@northeastern.edu
- 781.581.7370 x337
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Jerome F. Hajjar
University Distinguished Professor, CDM Smith Professor, and Chair,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Sustainable and resilient steel and composite steel/concrete structures; earthquake engineering; structural stability; large-scale experimental testing of structures; regional simulation
- jf.hajjar@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3242
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Brian Helmuth
Professor,
jointly appointed in
Marine and Environmental Sciences & School for Public Policy and Urban Affairs
Ecological forecasting and resilience of coastal environments
- b.helmuth@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2059
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Julia Hopkins
Assistant Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Coastal morphodynamics, including effects of extreme weather events on sediment transport in the surf zone; wave-current interactions in the nearshore; developing and implementing field-verified numerical models to study coastal processes, informing coastal management with process-based research
- ju.hopkins@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8058
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Randall Hughes
Professor,
Marine and Environmental Sciences Marine biodiversity and conservation; genetic management for climate adaptation
- rhughes@northeastern.edu
- 781.581.7370 x314
![Michael Kane](https://cee.northeastern.edu/wp-content/uploads/profiles/cee/kane-m.jpg)
Michael Kane
Assistant Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Citizen-centric controls, infrastructure automation; community resilience; grid-interactive efficient buildings; sustainability
- mi.kane@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7193
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Leila Keyvani Someh
Associate Teaching Professor,
First Year Engineering Program Resilience Engineering, Engineering Education, Evidence-Based Teaching, Pedagogy, Progressive Collapse
- l.keyvani@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2890
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Haris Koutsopoulos
Professor and Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Urban transportation networks and informatics, public transportation operations, mobility on demand
- h.koutsopoulos@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.6263
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Michelle Laboy
Assistant Professor,
School of Architecture Building and site systems integration; structures and landscape performance; building and urban resilience; green infrastructure; socio-ecological factors in design, transdisciplinary teaching and learning
- m.laboy@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5320
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Philip Larese-Casanova
Associate Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Physical, chemical, and electrochemical transformation processes of metallic, inorganic, and organic water pollutants, with applications to groundwater environments and unit operations
- phil@coe.northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2899
![Jack Lesko](https://cee.northeastern.edu/wp-content/uploads/profiles/mie/lesko-j.jpg)
Jack Lesko
Professor,
jointly appointed in
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering & Civil and Environmental Engineering
emerging interdisciplinary design involving lightweight polymeric multifunctional materials, structural design and reliability, packaging, and energy systems
- j.lesko@northeastern.edu
- 540-553-5456
![Yiannis Levendis](https://cee.northeastern.edu/wp-content/uploads/profiles/mie/levendis-y.jpg)
Yiannis Levendis
COE Distinguished Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Gasification and combustion of solid fuels, generation and containment of combustion-generated pollution, synthesis and characterization of combustion-generated materials, fire suppression – fire extinction, engine design and operation
- y.levendis@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3806
![Shang Liu](https://cee.northeastern.edu/wp-content/uploads/profiles/cee/liu-s-173x230.jpg)
Shang Liu
Assistant Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Air pollutant origin, transport, and formation; aerosol chemistry, physics, and optics; indoor air quality
- shang.liu@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4641
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Michael MacNeil
Laboratory Manager,
Civil and Environmental Engineering - m.macneil@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5931
![Yu Miao](https://cee.northeastern.edu/wp-content/uploads/profiles/cee/miao-y.jpg)
Yu (Rain) Miao
Assistant Professor,
jointly appointed in
Civil and Environmental Engineering & Marine and Environmental Sciences
Environmental biotechnology for groundwater remediation, wastewater treatment, and public and ecological health
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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
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Amy Mueller
Associate Professor,
jointly appointed in
Civil and Environmental Engineering & Marine and Environmental Sciences
Biogeochemistry of natural and engineered systems; in-situ sensors and instrumentation for high-resolution process characterization; remediation and sustainability in natural and built coastal environments; sensor-driven closed-loop controls for resource optimization in engineered systems; signal processing and machine learning, embedded systems, and sensor networks
- a.mueller@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8131
![](https://cee.northeastern.edu/wp-content/uploads/profiles/mie/muftu-s.jpg)
Sinan Müftü
COE Distinguished Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Cold-spray additive manufacturing; high-velocity impact of micron-scale particles; mechanics and tribology of axially moving materials; numerical simulation of tissue healing and bone remodeling
- s.muftu@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4743
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Samuel Munoz
Associate Professor,
jointly appointed in
Marine and Environmental Sciences & Civil and Environmental Engineering
Sedimentary records of environmental change, paleoclimate and climate change, rivers and fluvial processes, hydroclimatic extremes
- s.munoz@northeastern.edu
- 781.581.7370
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Andrew T. Myers
Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Fixed and floating offshore wind structures; multi-scale experimental testing of structures; computational simulation; probabilistic modeling
- an.myers@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3813
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Vladimir Novotny
Professor Emeritus,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Diffuse (Nonpoint) Pollution, Water Quality Management, Total Maximum Daily Loads, Restoration, Socio-economic Issues of Water Quality Abatement
- novotny@coe.northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5461
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Annalisa Onnis-Hayden
Teaching Professor and Vice Chair for Undergraduate Studies,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Biological treatment processes; ecotoxicology and toxicity assessment; microbial population dynamics and ecology in engineered biological systems
- aonnis@coe.northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2005
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Jessica Ormsby
Senior Co-op Coordinator,
Cooperative Education - j.ormsby@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3935