Faculty and Staff Directory

Akram N. Alshawabkeh
Senior Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education,
Office of the Dean Geoenvironmental engineering, soil and groundwater remediation; electrokinetic and electrochemical processes; contaminant fate and transport environmental restoration
- a.alshawabkeh@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3994

Cheryl Arruda
Associate Co-op Coordinator,
Cooperative Education - c.arruda@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3988

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

R. Edward Beighley
Professor & Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies,
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

Dionisio P. Bernal
Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering System identification, fault detection and fault localization, earthquake engineering, soil structure interaction, structural stability
- bernal@coe.neu.edu
- 617.373.4417

Kurt Braun
Senior Lab Technician,
Civil and Environmental Engineering - k.braun@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5931

Luca Caracoglia
Associate 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.neu.edu
- 617.373.5186

Virginia Casey
Senior Research Scientist,
Civil and Environmental Engineering - v.casey@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8191

Nicole Catubig
Administrative Assistant,
Civil and Environmental Engineering - n.catubig@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2444

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

Kyle Coleman
Director of Laboratories,
Civil and Environmental Engineering - ky.coleman@northeastern.edu
- 781.238.8415

Sally Conant
Associate Co-op Coordinator,
Global Engineering Co-op - s.conant@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.6373

Sarah Corley
Public Health Specialist,
CRECE, PROTECT, and ECHO - s.corley@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7771

David Deeter
Marketing & Communications Coordinator,
Civil and Environmental Engineering - d.deeter@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7188

Daniel M. Dulaski
Teaching Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Geometric design of transportation systems; transportation safety; human factors in transportation design; multi-modal streets; roundabouts; traffic calming; intelligent transportation systems
- ddulaski@coe.neu.edu
- 617.373.2993

Matthew J. Eckelman
Associate Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Environmental engineering and sustainability; life cycle assessment; energy efficiency and emissions modeling; environmental assessment of bio and nanomaterials; material and energy use in urban buildings and infrastructure
- m.eckelman@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4256

Lisa Edouard
First-Year, NU Start (L-Z), & Civil and Environmental Engineering (L-Z) Academic Advisor,
Undergraduate Academic Advising - l.edouard@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2154

Ozlem Ergun
Professor,
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

David Fannon
Associate Professor,
jointly appointed in School of Architecture & Civil and Environmental Engineering Sustainable and high performance building design; development of sustainable building technologies; human comfort within the built environment
- d.fannon@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2641

Loretta A. Fernandez
Associate Professor,
jointly appointed in Civil and Environmental Engineering & Marine and Environmental Sciences Environmental organic chemistry; passive sampling methods for organic contaminants in water and sediments; transport and transformation of contaminants in indoor and natural environments
- l.fernandez@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5461

Stephen Flynn
Affiliated Faculty,
Civil and Environmental Engineering critical infrastructure resilience; public policy
- s.flynn@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4220

Peter G. Furth
Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Traffic signal control; transit signal priority; transit operations modeling; transit data collection and sampling
- pfurth@coe.neu.edu
- 617.373.2447

Auroop R. Ganguly
Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Water & Climate Science, Data & Network Science, and Infrastructure Resilience
- a.ganguly@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3710

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

Tarik Gouhier
Affiliated Faculty,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Theoretical Ecology
- t.gouhier@northeastern.edu
- 781.581.7370

Jonathan Grabowski
Affiliated Faculty,
Civil and Environmental Engineering environmental science and policy, fisheries, ecological economics
- j.grabowski@northeastern.edu
- 781.581.7370 x337

Jerome F. Hajjar
CDM Smith Professor and Chair,
Civil and Environmental Engineering 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

Brian Helmuth
Affiliated Faculty,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Ecological forecasting and resilience of coastal environments
- b.helmuth@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2059

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

Randall Hughes
Affiliated Faculty,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Marine Community Ecology and Biodiversity
- rhughes@northeastern.edu
- 781.581.7370 x314

Michael Kane
Assistant Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Occupant-centric building controls, community resilience, model predictive control, hybrid systems
- mi.kane@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7193

Leila Keyvani Someh
Assistant Teaching Professor,
First Year Engineering Program Resilience Engineering, Engineering Education, Evidence-Based Teaching, Pedagogy, Progressive Collapse
- l.keyvani@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2890

Haris Koutsopoulos
Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Urban transportation networks and informatics, mobility on demand, intelligent transportation systems, public transportation operations
- h.koutsopoulos@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.6263

Kristina Kutsukos
Assistant Co-op Coordinator,
Global Engineering Co-op - k.kutsukos@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3808

Michelle Laboy
Affiliated Faculty,
Civil and Environmental Engineering 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

Philip Larese-Casanova
Associate Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Environmental chemistry and mineralogy; transformation and remediation of water pollutants; nanomaterial sorbents for water treatment
- phil@coe.neu.edu
- 617.373.2899

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

Michael MacNeil
Laboratory Manager,
Civil and Environmental Engineering - m.macneil@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5931

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

Amy Mueller
Assistant 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

Sinan Müftü
Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs,
Office of the Dean 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

Samuel Munoz
Assistant 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

Andrew T. Myers
Associate 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
- atm@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3813

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.neu.edu
- 617.373.5461

Annalisa Onnis-Hayden
Teaching Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Biological treatment processes; ecotoxicology and toxicity assessment; microbial population dynamics and ecology in engineered biological systems
- aonnis@coe.neu.edu
- 617.373.2005

Jessica Ormsby
Associate Co-op Coordinator,
Civil and Environmental Engineering - j.ormsby@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3935

Mark Patterson
Professor,
jointly appointed in Marine and Environmental Sciences & Civil and Environmental Engineering Development of autonomous underwater robots for civil infrastructure and marine sensing; decision support tools for gray/green infrastructure like tide gates; environmental fluid mechanics; biomechanics and mass transfer in living systems
- m.patterson@northeastern.edu
- 781.581.7370 x313

Kelsey Pieper
Assistant Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Applied environmental chemistry; corrosion; drinking water quality, treatment, and infrastructure; post-disaster drinking water recovery; public health engineering

Ameet Pinto
Assistant Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Microbial ecology and physiology, drinking water treatment and distribution, wastewater treatment, public health microbiology, molecular microbiology, 'omics analyses
- a.pinto@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5241

Taryn June Quiroa Sullivan
Senior Business Manager,
Civil and Environmental Engineering - t.sullivan@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4114

Russell Rakouskas
First-Year & Civil and Environmental Engineering (A-K) and Class of 2020 & 2021 Academic Advisor,
Undergraduate Academic Advising - r.rakouskas@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5503

Rozanna Riley
Operations Manager,
Civil and Environmental Engineering - r.riley@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8146

John Sangster
Assistant Teaching Professor,
First Year Engineering Program Engineering education with a focus on differentiated curricula. Transportation engineering with a focus on alternative intersection designs.

Mehrdad Sasani
Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Progressive collapse of structures; earthquake engineering; structural integrity and reliability; building and community resilience
- sasani@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5222

Kathryn Schulte Grahame
Teaching Professor and Associate Director,
First Year Engineering Program Service-learning in engineering, sustainable urban design; alternative energy sources; green roof technology; soil-liquid infiltration physics
- k.schulte@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2854

Thomas C. Sheahan
Senior Vice Provost for Curriculum and Programs Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Soft ground engineering, coastal adaptation, education and training for engineers and scientists
- t.sheahan@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3995

Craig Shillaber
Assistant 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

Jennie C. Stephens
Affiliated Faculty,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Renewable energy transformation, reducing fossil fuel reliance, energy resilience, energy democracy, climate engineering, gender & energy, integrating social justice with climate and energy innovations
- j.stephens@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8341

Aron Stubbins
Associate 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

Hao Sun
Assistant Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering (1) physics-informed AI for engineering applications; (2) physics-encoded deep learning for scarce data interpretation; (3) data-driven governing law discovery; (4) smart and resilient infrastructure; (5) advanced sensing, big data analytics, machine/deep learning, uncertainty quantification and inverse computational mechanics with applications to civil infrastructure monitoring and resilience assessment
- h.sun@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3888

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.neu.edu
- 617.373.5508

Geoffrey C. Trussell
Affiliated Faculty,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Evolutionary and community ecology; coastal sustainability
- g.trussell@northeastern.edu
- (781) 581-7370

Sara Wadia-Fascetti
Professor,
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
Assistant Professor,
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.neu.edu
- 617.373.3368

Mishac K. Yegian
COE Distinguished Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Geotechnical earthquake engineering; soil dynamics; geosynthetics; seismic response of landfills; base isolation; liquefaction; bridge engineering; use of shaking table in earthquake engineering
- m.yegian@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2448

Yang Zhang
Professor and Distinguished Fellow and Associate Chair for Research,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Air quality; atmospheric chemistry; cloud/aerosol microphysics; sensitivity and uncertainty analysis; multiscale atmospheric modeling and forecasting; climate and Earth system modeling; health impact assessment; eco-environmental sustainability; human-Earth system interactions