Faculty and Staff Directory
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George G. Adams
College of Engineering Distinguished Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Contact mechanics including adhesion, friction, and plasticity; modeling and analysis of MEMS; modeling and analysis in nanomechanics
- adams_g@coe.neu.edu
- 617.373.3826
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
Christopher Anderson
Postdoctoral Research Associate,
Civil and Environmental Engineering - c.anderson@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5241
Cheryl Arruda
Associate Co-op Coordinator,
Cooperative Education - c.arruda@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3988
Joseph Ayers
Affiliated Faculty,
jointly appointed in
Bioengineering, Civil & 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
Associate 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
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
Yunqing Du
Senior Research Scientist,
Civil & Environmental Engineering - y.du@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3010
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 and Associate Chair For Research,
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
David Fannon
Assistant Professor,
jointly appointed in
School of Architecture & Civil & 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
Zlatan Feric
Applications Developer & Data Administrator,
PROTECT - z.feric@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5026
Loretta A. Fernandez
Assistant 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, transformation, and biological exchange of organic contaminants in the environment
- l.fernandez@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5461
Stephen Flynn
Founding Director,
Global Resilience Institute 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, specifically inside micro and nanofluidic channels. This is applied to a broad range of scientific fields including: biophysics, micro and systems biology, ecology, environmental sensing, and 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 & 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 & Environmental Engineering Ecological forecasting and resilience of coastal environments
- b.helmuth@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2059
Randall Hughes
Affiliated Faculty,
Civil & 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 and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies,
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 & 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 Muftu
Interim Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs,
Office of the Dean Mechanics and tribology of axially moving materials, webs; numerical simulation of tissue healing and bone remodeling; high velocity impact of micron scale particles
- s.muftu@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4743
Samuel Munoz
Assistant Professor,
jointly appointed in
Marine and Environmental Sciences & Civil & Environmental Engineering
sedimentary records of environmental change, paleoclimate and climate change, rivers and fluvial processes, hydroclimatic extremes
Andrew T. Myers
Associate Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Offshore wind structures; multi-scale experimental testing of structures; computational simulation; fracture and damage mechanics of metals; 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
Assistant 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 & 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 & 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 Academic Advisor,
Undergraduate Academic Advising - r.rakouskas@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5503
Mehrdad Sasani
Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Progressive collapse of structures; earthquake engineering; structural integrity and reliability; community resilience.
- sasani@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5222
Kathryn Schulte Grahame
Interim Associate Director and Associate Teaching Professor,
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
Kai-tak Wan
Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Cellular biomechanics; water filtration; thin film adhesion and characterization; subsurface mechano-sensing; shell adhesion; fundamental intersurface forces
- k.wan@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2248
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
Ruiyang Zhang
Postdoctoral Research Associate,
Civil and Environmental Engineering - ru.zhang@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2444
Yang Zhang
Professor,
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
Ling Zhu
Associate Research Scientist,
Civil and Environmental Engineering - l.zhu@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5465