Faculty and Staff Directory
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Akram N. Alshawabkeh
Senior Associate Dean for Research and Global University Campus,
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

R. Edward Beighley
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

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
Lab Manager,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Large-scale structural testing
- su.bhandari@northeastern.edu
- (781) 238-8419

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.northeastern.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

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

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

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

Stephen Flynn
Professor,
Political Science 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.northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2447

Auroop R. Ganguly
COE Distinguished Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Geoscience (Climate Science, Hydrology, Hydrometeorology); Engineering (Infrastructure Resilience, Water Resources, Lifeline Systems); Data Sciences (Machine Learning, Data Mining, Nonlinear Physics)
- a.ganguly@northeastern.edu
- 617-373-3710 (email preferred)

Khaled Ghannam
Assistant Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Boundary-layer meteorology, land-atmosphere interactions, air quality modeling, hydroclimatology

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

Tarik Gouhier
Associate Professor,
Marine and Environmental Sciences Population Biology
- t.gouhier@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2061

Jonathan Grabowski
Professor,
Marine and Environmental Sciences 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
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

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

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
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
Associate 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 Undergraduate Studies,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Urban transportation networks and informatics, public transportation operations, mobility on demand
- 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
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

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
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
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

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

Caroline Milligan
Senior Student Services and Data Associate,
Cooperative Education - c.milligan@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8434

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
Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Graduate Studies,
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
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

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

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

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

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

Jessica Ormsby
Associate Co-op Coordinator,
Cooperative Education - 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

Nathan Post
Associate Research Professor,
jointly appointed in
Civil and Environmental Engineering & Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
optimization of structures and components for a circular economy and climate resilience with a focus on composite materials, advanced manufacturing, uncertainty analysis, and applied AI; applications include the wind industry, energy-efficient construction, managing extreme weather events, orthopedic implants.

Taryn June Quiroa Sullivan
Director for Operations and Business Management,
Civil and Environmental Engineering - t.sullivan@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4114

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

Nora Salmon
Assistant Co-op Coordinator,
Cooperative Education - n.salmon@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3720

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

Daniel Schuch
Postdoctoral Research Associate,
Civil and Environmental Engineering - d.schuch@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2444

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

Cristina Schultz
Foley Family Assistant Professor,
jointly appointed in
Marine and Environmental Sciences & Civil and Environmental Engineering
Influence of long-term climate change and of climate variability on ocean biogeochemistry

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

Jennie C. Stephens
Dean’s Professor of Sustainability Science and Policy and Director,
School for Public Policy and Urban Affairs 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
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

Julia Varshavsky
Assistant Professor,
jointly appointed in
Department of Health Sciences & Civil and Environmental Engineering
Environmental exposures and maternal-child health outcomes, biomonitoring, risk assessment in vulnerable communities
- 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

Megan Woodbury
Postdoctoral Research Associate,
PROTECT Prenatal exposures and neurodevelopment, neurotoxicology, environmental epidemiology, environmental health, public health, endocrine disrupting chemicals, drugs and supplements, interactive effects of exposures

Mishac K. Yegian
COE Distinguished Professor Emeritus,
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

Moira Zellner
Professor,
Public Policy and Urban Affairs complex systems modeling, human-natural systems modeling, participatory modeling, environmental planning and policy

Yang Zhang
Professor, 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
- ya.zhang@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3503

Ling Zhu
Senior Research Scientist,
Civil and Environmental Engineering - l.zhu@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5465