Faculty and Staff Directory
79 Items found
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 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
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 and 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 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
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 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
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 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 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 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 and 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 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 Senior Academic Advisor,
Undergraduate Academic Advising - r.rakouskas@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5503
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; 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
Yang Zhang
Professor and Distinguished Fellow,
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