Faculty and Staff Directory
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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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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