Industrial Advisory Board

The ECE Industrial Advisory board supports the department by providing expertise and input on technical directions, emerging topics, and untapped opportunities pertaining to both research and academic programs. IAB members are corporate leaders in the diverse technology sections spanned by electrical and computer engineering, and are committed to maintining and advancing Northeastern ECE’s position as a national leader in both research and education.

The following individuals currently serve on the Department IAB:

Name and Affiliation	Biography
David J. Anderson Co-Founder & Strategic Advisor Ameresco	Mr. Anderson is a Co-Founder of Ameresco, a leading cleantech integrator and renewable energy asset developer, owner and operator. He served as a member of the founding management team of Ameresco (NYSE:AMRC) in the capacity of Executive Vice President, and served as a member of the Board of Directors from 2000 to 2021. He currently supports the Company as a Strategic Advisor focused on business development. Mr. Anderson has over 35 years of diversified experience in the energy industry and was instrumental in the successful development and implementation of Ameresco’s strategic vision. In this capacity, he played a key leadership role in driving Ameresco’s growth and development to become a leading independent energy solutions company throughout North America and Western Europe. Mr. Anderson directed the Company’s business development initiatives through a plan of significant organic growth and strategic acquisitions. He was instrumental in structuring and negotiating complex contracts and intricate business relationships, and has helped introduce and redraft legislative and regulatory policies concerning energy and environmental initiatives. Mr. Anderson was also responsible for corporate government relations as well as safety, quality and risk management. In this roll he oversaw global compliance and risk reduction functions company-wide. Additionally, he served as the General Manager for several business units, including Ameresco’s Energy Supply and Risk Management businesses, and he oversaw Ameresco’s international business in Ireland, the United Kingdom and Western Europe. Mr. Anderson served on the Alliance to Save Energy’s Board of Directors and was an active member of the National Association of Energy Service Companies, and many state organizations and vertical market associations. He is also a former member of the Board of Directors of the Northeast Clean Energy Council. In addition, throughout much of his career, he has held various executive and senior management positions focused on the business development, engineering, financing, construction, commissioning, operation & maintenance and performance assurance of successful innovative projects involving advanced technologies including dynamic energy efficiency, combined heat and power, geothermal, solar PV, wind, battery storage and microgrids representing over $5 billion. Mr. Anderson earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering with a concentration in Power Systems from Northeastern University. He also completed Executive Management Programs at Harvard University and Stanford University Law School.
Stephen F. Bart, Ph.D. Senior Director of Advanced Technology Americas R&D TDK Corporation	Dr. Bart received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He did his doctoral research with Professors Senturia and Lang on analysis and design of the first microfabricated electrostatic motors and pumps. After his PhD work, Dr. Bart joinedAnalog Devices, Inc., where he designed the MEMS sensor in the well-known Analog Devices, Inc. ADXL150 family of airbag accelerometers, which has over 500 million sensors in the field. From 1996 to 2002 he held several positions at Coventor, Inc., a developer of physical design tools for MEMS systems. Dr. Bart returned to Analog Devices as a Senior Product Development Leader, working on inertial MEMS sensors for the commercial marketplace. Dr. Bart then joined MKS Instruments to develop high-performance, vacuum absolute-pressure sensors for semiconductor and industrial applications. Today, Dr. Bart leads the Advanced Transducer Systems group at TDK, where he is developing advanced gas sensors, ultrasonic and acoustic sensors and advanced machine learning and circuit architectures. Dr. Bart’s research interests include the design, modeling, and simulation of complex MEMS systems and Machine Learningmethods for sensor data fusion. Dr. Bart holds 13 patents in the microsystems area.
Thomas Ryden Executive Director MassRobotics	Thomas Ryden is the Executive Director of MassRobotics, a non-profit organization whose mission is to support the robotics community and help grow the next generation of robotics and connected device companies. MassRobotics runs the world’s largest robotics and IoT focused co-working space. Prior to joining MassRobotics, Mr. Ryden was the founder and CEO/COO of VGoCommunications where he helped launch the VGo telepresence robot. Previously, Mr. Ryden was Director of Sales & Marketing for iRobot Corporation, overseeing thedevelopment and launch of some of iRobot’s most successful products. Mr. Ryden serves on the Tufts University Computer Science Advisory Board, the Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s Robotics Engineering Advisory Board, the Northeastern University ECE Industrial Advisory Board and the Robotics Technical Advisory Panel for ASME. He is an advisor to a number of robotics start-ups. Mr. Ryden has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Vermont and an MBA from Bentley University.