Faculty and Staff Directory
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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.neu.edu
- 617.373.5186

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

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

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

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
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)

Tarik Gouhier
Affiliated Faculty,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Population Biology
- t.gouhier@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2061

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
- ju.hopkins@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8058

Randall Hughes
Affiliated Faculty,
Civil and Environmental Engineering 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

Haris Koutsopoulos
Professor & 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

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

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

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
Research Associate 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.

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

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

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

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

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

Moira Zellner
Affiliated Faculty,
Civil and Environmental Engineering complex systems modeling, human-natural systems modeling, participatory modeling, environmental planning and policy

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
- ya.zhang@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3503