Faculty and Staff Directory

Emad Aboelela
Associate 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
Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Power system monitoring, estimation and optimization, fault location and identification in power grids
- abur@ece.neu.edu
- 617.373.3051

Brian Albrecht
Associate Co-op Coordinator,
Cooperative Education - b.albrecht@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.6836

Muhammad Ali
Senior Research Scientist,
Electrical and Computer Engineering - m.ali@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.6992

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

Joseph Ayers
Affiliated Faculty,
jointly appointed in Bioengineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering & 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

Stefano Basagni
Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Wireless networks; ad hoc networks; underwater and terrestrial sensor networking; protocol design and testing
- basagni@ece.neu.edu
- 617.373.3061

Elena Bernal Mor
Assistant 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.neu.edu
- 617.373.3352

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.neu.edu
- 617.373.2992

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

Cristian Cassella
Assistant 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

Kaushik Chowdhury
Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Dynamic spectrum access; energy harvesting sensor networks; 5G technology; intra-body communication; protocol design for wireless
- krc@ece.neu.edu
- 617.373.5304

Pau Closas
Assistant 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

Sally Conant
Associate Co-op Coordinator Global Engineering & Assistant Director, Global and Civil & Environmental Engineering,
Global Engineering Co-op - s.conant@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.6373

Patrick Connolly
Facilities Manager,
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

Benyamin Davaji
Assistant Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Integrated microsystems, data-guided design and nanofabrication, ultrasound microsystems for sensing and computation, and MEMS calorimetry for microbiology and biosensor development
- b.davaji@northeastern.edu
- (617) 373-5603

Emrecan Demirors
Research Assistant Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering - e.demirors@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4159

Anthony Devaney
COE Distinguished Professor Emeritus,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Electromagnetic wave propagation, inverse scattering tomography
- devaney@ece.neu.edu
- 617.373.5284

Charles DiMarzio
Associate Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Optics, microscopy, coherent detection, interaction of light and sound
waves, hyperspectral imaging, diffusive optical tomography multi-model
imaging and remote sensing. Activities include computer modeling,
designing, building, and testing of hardware, and processing the
resulting data
- dimarzio@ece.neu.edu
- 617.373.2034

Stephen W. Director
Provost Emeritus,
Electrical and Computer Engineering - director@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4517

John DiSessa
Student Services & Data Manager,
Cooperative Education - j.disessa@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4122

Kris Dorsey
Associate Professor,
jointly appointed in Electrical and Computer Engineering & Physical Therapy, Movement and Rehabilitation Sciences Soft robotics, wearable devices, active and multifunctional materials, flexible electronics