Faculty and Staff Directory

Emad Aboelela
Teaching Professor and Vice Chair for Undergraduate Education,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Wireless Sensor Networks, Internet of Things, Embedded Systems, Quality-of-Service for Multimedia Networking, Computer Networks Management and Design.
- e.aboelela@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3386

Gregory D. Abowd
Dean of the College of Engineering,
Office of the Dean Human-Computer Interaction, Ubiquitous Computing, Software Engineering

Ali Abur
University Distinguished Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Power system monitoring, estimation and optimization, fault location and identification in power grids
- abur@ece.northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3051

Derya Aksaray
Assistant Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Robotics, control theory, formal methods, machine learning, and aerospace systems

Arwa Alkhateeb
Associate Co-op Coordinator,
Cooperative Education - a.alkhateeb@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.6836

Christopher Amato
Affiliated Faculty,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Robotics
- c.amato@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5807

Mahshid Amirabadi
Associate Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Design, modeling and control of power converters, power electronics for renewable energy systems, microgrids, variable speed drives and wireless power transfer
- m.amirabadi@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8177

Parisa Andalib
Research Assistant Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering - p.andalib@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5185

Eric Anderson
Associate Research Professor,
jointly appointed in Electrical and Computer Engineering & Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things - er.anderson@northeastern.edu
- +1 617-373-6906

Joseph Ayers
Affiliated Faculty,
Bioengineering & 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

Omar Badreldin
Associate Teaching Professor and Associate Director,
Multidisciplinary Graduate Engineering Programs predicting software evolution using a variety of approaches, including software quality predictive analysis, with the goal of enhancing upfront software designs, and enabling effective continuous design refactoring

Eduardo Baena
Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things AI-based management of cellular networks, with a focus on the advancements in 5G/6G, cloud and edge computing, OpenRAN, NTN networks, and LEO edge technologies.

Stefano Basagni
Associate Dean of the Global Engineering Campus,
Office of the Dean Wireless networks; ad hoc networks; underwater and terrestrial sensor networking; protocol design and testing
- s.basagni@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3061

Elena Bernal Mor
Associate Teaching Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering - e.bernalmor@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3895

Timothy Bickmore
Affiliated Faculty,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Human-Computer Interaction, Health Informatics, Dialog systems, Conversational agents
- t.bickmore@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5477

David Brady
Teaching Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering - d.brady@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.6992

Dana Brooks
Research Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Biomedical signal and image processing; medical imaging; statistical signal processing; inverse problems; electrocardiography; bio-optical imaging; magnetic resonance imaging; transcranial neuromodulation; estimation of protein conformations from Xray scattering; regularization; optimization
- brooks@ece.northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3352

Noah Burnett
Assistant Co-op Coordinator,
Cooperative Education - n.burnett@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3447

Ahmed Busnaina
WL Smith Chair and University Distinguished Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Nanomanufacturing; nano and microscale printing of sensors and electronics; nano and micro-scale defects in semiconductor manufacturing; high rate nanomanufacturing; power electronics, RF, NEMS devices and nanomaterials based nanoelectronics, flexible and hybrid electronics
- busnaina@coe.northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2992

Octavia Camps
Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
- camps@ece.northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3010

Cristian Cassella
Associate Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Acoustic resonators, nonreciprocal components, zero-power sensors for IoT, nonlinear dynamics, ultrasonic transducers
- c.cassella@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7509

Arthur Castello Branco de Oliveira
Postdoctoral Research Associate,
Electrical and Computer Engineering 
Pau Closas
Associate Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Statistical and array signal processing; estimation and detection theory; Bayesian inference; stochastic filtering; robust statistics; and game theory, with applications to positioning systems (GNSS and indoor technologies); wireless communications, and mathematical biology
- closas@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3778

Tracey Coetzee
Executive Assistant, Institute Research & Operations Director,
Institute of Experiential Robotics 
Marco Colangelo
Assistant Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Applied superconductivity, single-photon detectors, cryogenic devices, and nanofabrication technology
- ma.colangelo@northeastern.edu
- (617) 373 6458

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

Patrick Connolly
Assistant Director of ECE Labs & Safety Officer,
Electrical and Computer Engineering - p.connolly@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2169

Gene Cooperman
Affiliated Faculty,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Computer systems, high-performance computing, transparent checkpoint-restart, model checking
- g.cooperman@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8686