Faculty and Staff Directory

Teaching Professor and Vice Chair for Undergraduate Education, 

Wireless Sensor Networks, Internet of Things, Embedded Systems, Quality-of-Service for Multimedia Networking, Computer Networks Management and Design.

Dean of the College of Engineering, 

Human-Computer Interaction, Ubiquitous Computing, Software Engineering

University Distinguished Professor, 

Power system monitoring, estimation and optimization, fault location and identification in power grids

Assistant Professor, 

Robotics, control theory, formal methods, machine learning, and aerospace systems

Associate Co-op Coordinator, 

Affiliated Faculty, 

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Robotics

Associate Professor, 

Design, modeling and control of power converters, power electronics for renewable energy systems, microgrids, variable speed drives and wireless power transfer

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 

Research Assistant Professor, 

Associate Research Professor, 

Affiliated Faculty, 

Development of underwater robots for civil infrastructure and explosive sensing; neurophysiology and behavior biomimetics

Associate Teaching Professor and Associate Director, 

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

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 

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.

Associate Dean of the Global Engineering Campus, 

Wireless networks; ad hoc networks; underwater and terrestrial sensor networking; protocol design and testing

Associate Research Scientist, 

Senior Electronic Lab Technician, 

Associate Teaching Professor, 

Associate Research Scientist, 

Affiliated Faculty, 

Human-Computer Interaction, Health Informatics, Dialog systems, Conversational agents

Associate Research Scientist, 

Teaching Professor, 

Research Professor, 

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

Marketing & Communications Coordinator, 

Assistant Co-op Coordinator, 

WL Smith Chair and University Distinguished Professor, 

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

Professor, 

Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing

Director of Institute Research & Operations, 

Executive Assistant/Project Manager, 

Associate Professor, 

Acoustic resonators, nonreciprocal components, zero-power sensors for IoT, nonlinear dynamics, ultrasonic transducers

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

Academic Advisor, 

coe-chme-gradadvising@northeastern.educoe-bioe-gradadvising@northeastern.educoe-cee-gradadvising@northeastern.edu

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

Associate Professor, 

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

Executive Assistant, Institute Research & Operations Director, 

Assistant Professor, 

Applied superconductivity, single-photon detectors, cryogenic devices, and nanofabrication technology

Assistant Research Professor, 

Senior Co-op Coordinator, Global Engineering & Associate Director, Global, Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering, and Civil & Environmental Engineering, 

Teaching Professor, 

Affiliated Faculty, 

Computer systems, high-performance computing, transparent checkpoint-restart, model checking

Associate Research Professor, 

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

Professor, 

Flexible printed electronics, robotics (soft robotics), electronic skin, tactile sensing, haptics, intelligent interactive systems, wearable systems

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

Assistant Professor, 

Immersive media, XR systems, networks, mobile, wireless, and wearable computing

Assistant Professor, 

Integrated microsystems, data-guided design and nanofabrication, ultrasound microsystems for sensing and computation, and MEMS calorimetry for microbiology and biosensor development

Special Assistant & Project Manager to the ECE Dept. Chair, 

Research Assistant Professor, 

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 

Program Manager, 

Affiliated Faculty, 

COE Distinguished Professor Emeritus, 

Electromagnetic wave propagation, inverse scattering tomography

Open RAN Testing & Integration Engineer, 

Associate Professor, 

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

Assistant Professor, 

Quantum networking and quantum computing with atoms in optical tweezer arrays, cavity QED, many-body states

Provost Emeritus, 

Associate Research Scientist, 

Associate Professor, 

Soft robotics, wearable devices, active and multifunctional materials, flexible electronics

Senior Electronic Lab Technician, 

Professor, 

Algorithms for communication systems, the life sciences, and DNA forensics. Primary focus currently on new approaches to forward error correction.

COE Distinguished Professor, 

Machine learning; data mining; statistical pattern recognition; computer vision and image processing

Assistant Professor, 

Broadband, energy-efficient, reconfigurable, and high data rate RF, mm-wave, and THz integrated circuits and systems; and security, connectivity, and localization of IoTs

Affiliated Faculty, 

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 

COE Distinguished Professor, 

Statistical signal and image analysis, machine learning, neural interfaces, biomedical data analysis, human-intent inference for CPS

COE Distinguished Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Affairs, 

Design and management of large-scale networks, supply chain design and resilience, collaboration and crowdsourcing in logistics, humanitarian logistics

Operations Manager, 

Assistant Professor, 

Robotics, motion planning, control theory, neural network verification, reinforcement learning

Associate Teaching Professor, 

Associate Professor, 

Innovations in translational medical imaging devices to better diagnose cancers, low-cost point-of-care diagnostic tools to delivery life-saving medicines to the resource-poor regions, and high performance computing tools to facilitate the development of the next-generation imaging methods

Associate Teaching Professor, 

Integrated circuits, solid state devices

Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs, 

Hardware-oriented security, computer architecture, embedded systems, design automation, IoT and cyber physical systems

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

Senior Research Scientist, 

Associate Professor, 

Quantum technologies such as quantum sensing, quantum network, and quantum computation using lowdimensional quantum materials and applying quantum sensors to investigate novel physics phenomena

Professor, 

Protecting emerging sensor technology in biomedical engineering and cyber-physical systems

COE Distinguished Professor, 

Artificial Intelligence: Machine Learning and Computational Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Big Data Mining and Social Media Analytics

Associate Professor, 

Flexible and stretchable organic microelectronics and optoelectronics, device physics and engineering for sensing and energy generation, high throughput manufacturing and heterogeneous integration

Senior Academic Advisor, 

Research Assistant Professor, 

signal processing, physical layer and protocol aspects, prototyping with software-defined radios and connected robotics

Research Scientist, 

Assistant Professor, 

Acousto-optic and acousto-electric signal processing devices, integrated photonics, piezoelectric MEMS, oscillator-based computing, nanofabrication techniques and heterogeneous material integration

Senior Director of Technical Programs (PAWR & WIoT), 

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

University Distinguished Professor and William Lincoln Smith Chair Professor, 

Functional materials used in high frequency applications such as sensors, radar, and communication platforms, and nanotechnology, power electronics, and medical diagnostics and therapeutics

Affiliated Faculty, 

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

Assistant Co-op Coordinator, 

Professor, 

Micro-electromechanical Systems (MEMS), design and manufacturing of microfabricated sensors and actuators, mechatronics and control systems.

Associate Research Scientist, 

Professor, 

Robotics: planning, sensing, control, human-robot interaction, bio-inspired robotics, multi-robot systems

Assistant Professor, 

Machine Learning, Control/Learning Theory, Bayesian Statistics, Signal Processing

Associate Professor, 

Multidimensional signal processing and Hyperspectral imaging

Affiliated Faculty, 

Applying pattern recognition and sensor-driven healthcare technologies to measure physical activity and promote behavior changes that improve health; human-in-the-loop activity recognition See: https://www.mhealthgroup.org/

Professor, 

Distributed systems, networking, machine learning, big data, and privacy

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

Affiliated Faculty, 

Technology-based health interventions for successful aging and scalable remote care

Principal Research Scientist, 

Assistant Professor, 

Intersection of neuroscience, engineering, and autism

Associate Co-op Coordinator, 

Associate Dean of Research, 

Terahertz communications for 6G systems, wireless nano-bio-communication networks, Internet of Nano-Things

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

Automotive User-Interface Design, AV / PDDs and Pedestrian Interactions, Public and Community Robotics, Human Robot Interaction, Community AI Interaction, Aging and Intergenerational Interactions, Urban Design.

Associate Co-op Coordinator, 

COE Distinguished Professor, 

Computer architecture; GPUs; heterogeneous computing; performance analysis; security, data privacy and encryption; hardware reliability and recovery; simulation; and workload characterization

Principal Research Scientist, 

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

Director of Administration & Finance, 

Senior Lab Technician, 

Professor, 

Integrated circuit design and for nanoelectronics and nano technology, high speed system integration for signal processing and communication applications, bio-chip and bio-sensor interface circuit design, electronic neuron circuit design, low power adaptive robot controller circuit design; high performance and low power vlsI design, system-on-chip (soc), and Physical VLSI CAD

Teaching Professor, 

Semiconductor devices, Biosensors and bioelectronics, and Hardware/software design for sensor circuits and systems.

Professor, 

Malware analysis and detection; web security; social network security; reverse engineering; intrusion detection

Professor Emeritus, 

Software Engineering, Cognitive Radios, Information Integration and Fusion

Research Professor, 

Associate Professor, 

Experimental wireless networking and mobile computing, with a current focus on millimeter wave networking, high-bandwidth applications (VR, 360° video streaming) over wireless networks, LTE/WiFi coexistence, energy-aware protocol design for smartphones, and wireless sensing

Assistant Director of Graduate Programs, 

Affiliated Faculty, 

Big data analytics and practical applications, mathematical physics of networks.

Administrative Assistant, 

Associate Director of IT Infrastructure & Architecture, 

Professor, 

Accelerators for computer intensive applications from the edge to the cloud. Applications of FPGAs including wireless communications, machine learning and data privacy

Professor, 

Power electronics, dc-dc converters, pulse width modulation, motion control, electric motor drives, analog circuits, control theory, differential equations, time delays, nonlinear systems and control, industrial control

Associate Professor, 

Control theory, linear systems, optimization algorithms, machine learning

Professor Emeritus, 

Adaptive filtering, Statistical signal processing, spectrum analysis and estimation, networked dynamic state estimation.

Associate Professor, 

Robust and Secure Machine Learning; Deep Learning on the Edge; Cyber-Physical Systems

Professor, 

Nano optics, nanoscale materials and engineering, nano devices, plasmonics, metamaterials, and applied physics

Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Operations, 

MEMS-enabled actuator systems (assistive technologies, energy harvesting, and flow control); origami-enabled microfluidics and tissue engineering; carbon nanomaterials

Associate Research Scientist, 

ITC Endowed Professor, 

Fault-tolerant computing, VLSI CAD, testing, configurable computing, distributed systems

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

IER Lab Manager, 

Associate Professor, 

Coding and information theory, wireless communications, data privacy and security, privacy-preserving computing and learning

COE Distinguished Teaching Professor, 

Current Research: Experiential Engineering Education via Innovation and Invention. Focus on the Technical Design, Energy System, and Medical Engineering (MedEng) Design Innovations via Prototyping and Proof of Concept. Past Research: High-Temperature Superconductors, Two-Dimensional Electron Gas, and Engineering Physics Education.

Professor, 

Image and signal processing as applied to biophysical data designed to answer fundamental questions about the molecular basis of living systems, and progression of Alzheimer's Disease

Academic Coordinator, 

Principal Research Scientist of PT, 

Spectrum policy to encourage technical innovation Terahertz spectrum technology and spectrum policy technology for spectrum monitoring and spectrum enforcement

Associate Professor, 

Theoretical and applied electromagnetics, theoretical and applied optics, scattering theory, wave inverse problems, noniterative inverse scattering, physics-based signal processing and imaging, change detection theory and applications, compressive sensing, electromagnetic information theory, analysis and design of optical and quantum holographic detectors

Teaching Professor, 

Computer Architecture, Engineering & Law, Torts, Intellectual Property Law

Financial Operations Coordinator, 

Professor, 

Devices, circuits and sensing; antenna analysis, modeling, design, and optimization; subsurface scattering analysis; computational methods of electromagnetics; novel radar system specification and design; explosives detection

Professor, 

MEMS, NEMS, RF MEMS; nanotechnology; micro/nanofabrication; microsystems; microrelay; nanoswitch; microspectrometer; microfluidics; organic FETs, organic solar cells

Professor Emeritus, 

Submillimeter devices and materials, optical and infrared materials and systems, magnetic materials, engineering education.

Senior Co-op Coordinator & Associate Director, 

Vice Provost for Graduate Education, 

Combinatorial optimization, function approximation for large-scale machine learning, platforms for large-scale social experimentation, assistive technology

William Lincoln Smith Professor, 

Modeling, optimization, and experimental evaluation of wireless networked systems; Networked implantable medical systems; Multimedia sensor networks; Secure tactical cognitive radio networks; Underwater networks; Mobile cloud computing

Principal Research Scientist, 

Associate Professor, 

Capacity planning; Resource Management; Storage Systems; NVMe Flash Memory Devices; Distributed Data Processing Scheduling; Cloud Computing; Performance Evaluation; Workload Characterization; Simulation

Affiliated Faculty, 

Development and empirical testing of neural network models of visual perception, notably the segmentation, grouping, and contour formation processes of early and middle vision in primates, and on the transition of these models to technological applications

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

Assistant Professor, 

Quantum photonics, topological photonics, nonlinear photonics, two-dimensional materials

Principal Software Engineer, 

Research Engineer, 

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

Professor, 

Electromagnetics and optics, quantum systems, nanoscale materials and metamaterials, nanoantennas, THz-IR Devices, multiscale computation and mathematical-numerical models

Assistant Dean & Senior Co-op Coordinator, 

Departmental Programs: Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Data Analytics, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Energy Systems, Engineering Management, Engineering Public Policy, Environmental Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, Operations Research, Robotics, and Sustainable Building Systems.

Associate Professor, 

Biogeochemistry of natural and engineered systems; in-situ sensors and instrumentation for high-resolution process characterization; remediation and sustainability in natural and built coastal environments; sensor-driven closed-loop controls for resource optimization in engineered systems; signal processing and machine learning, embedded systems, and sensor networks

Professor Emeritus, 

Electric Machines; Energy Conversion; Electromagnetic Fields in Electrical Devices; Power Systems: Simulation, Analysis, and Optimum Control

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

Associate Teaching Professor, 

Assistant Professor, 

Analog/RF/millimeter-wave integrated circuits and systems, analog computing, bio-medical scanners, and hardware for large-scale quantum computing systems

Affiliated Faculty, 

Professor and Associate Chair for Faculty Affairs, 

Design of analog, radio frequency, and mixed-signal integrated circuits; built-in test and calibration techniques for systems-on-a-chip; on-chip temperature sensors for thermal monitoring and built-in testing; integrated circuits for medical applications

Associate Professor, 

Computer Vision; Machine Learning; Artificial Intelligence; Augmented Cognition with Medical Applications; Augmented/Virtual Reality

Professor, 

Experiential robotics, human-robot teaming at the extremes, embodied artificial intelligence

Research Engineer III, 

Affiliated Faculty, 

Speech acoustics, Speech signal processing, AI Voice, voice analytics

Affiliated Faculty, 

Multi-scale computational modeling of complex behaviors of biological systems applied in healthcare, engineering, and augmentation of human performance

Affiliated Faculty, 

Assistant Research Professor, 

Open RAN, O-RAN, 5G/6G wireless networks, mmWave and terahertz mobile networks, performance evaluation of end-to-end, complex networks, open source networking software

Assistant Research Professor, 

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 

Professor Emeritus, 

Digital Communications and Digital Signal Processing

Associate Research Professor, 

Associate Professor, 

Design and development of robots with nontrivial morphologies; Analysis and closed-loop feedback design of nonlinear systems; Robot locomotion (legged & fluidic-based); Robotics-inspired biology

COE Distinguished Professor, 

Electromagnetics, antennas, computational modeling, imaging radar hardware and alogorithms, bioelectromagnetic sensing and treatment

Professor, 

Remote sensing, underwater acoustics, acoustical oceanography, bioacoustics, ultrasound imaging, nonlinear scattering, wave propagation in random media, signal, image and array processing, statistical inference theory

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 

Assistant Professor, 

Resilient and Efficient AI/ML, Mobile Computing, FPGAs, Embedded Systems, Wireless Networking

Professor, 

Understanding and exploiting the fundamental properties of micro/nanomechanical structures and advanced nanomaterials to engineer new classes of micro and nanoelectromechanical systems (M/NEMS) with unique and enabling features applied to the areas of chemical, physical and biological sensing and low power reconfigurable radio communication systems

Director, 

Associate Professor, 

Trustworthy computing architectures, web security, statistical machine learning for anomaly detection, malware analysis using adversarial program analysis, reverse engineering, intrusion detection

Assistant Professor, 

Robotics, computer vision, machine learning, optimization, geometry and topology, probability and statistics

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

Associate Research Scientist, 

Teaching Professor, 

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies , 

Error correcting codes; information theory; digital communications

Lab Manager, 

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

Professor, 

Modeling of geographic patterns of population growth, modeling fluid flow to inform coastal floods simulations and atmospheric global pollution transport models, and design and implementation of disease outbreaks prediction platforms and mathematical solutions to healthcare

Assistant Teaching Professor, 

FPGA Engineer, 

Associate Professor, 

Embedded computer systems; novel architectures for embedded vision; cyber-physical systems; system-level design and methodologies; hardware/software co-design

Professor, 

Control Systems and Signal Processing; Robust and Optimal Control, Positive Dynamic Systems, Fault Detection, Observer Theory, Robotics and Distributed Control of Multi-Agent Systems, Control of Biological Systems

Assistant Professor, 

Machine learning, optimization and control, distributed and sequential learning, with a focus on developing computationally efficient methods for data analytics

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

Financial Operations Coordinator, 

Assistant Professor, 

Movement neuroscience, sensorimotor physiology, clinical research, orthopedics, rehabilitation

Assistant Professor, 

Persuasive dialogues, dialogue systems, natural language processing, AI safety, machine learning, artificial intelligence

Associate Professor, 

Ultra-low Power Circuits and Systems, Analog Computing, Precision Circuits, Hardware Security

Assistant Professor, 

Sparse Sensing and Control in Cyber-Physical Networks and Robotics; Distributed Systems Theory and Applications; Network Optimization and Control; Hard Limits and Tradeoff s in Large-Scale Dynamical Networks

Robert D. Black Professor, COE Distinguished Professor, 

Subsurface sensing and imaging systems, detection of explosives-related anomalies, engineered system development and engineering leadership

Principal Research Scientist, 

Professor, 

Machine Learning for Fisheries, SLAM in the presence of Dynamic Moving Objects, Counter UAS methodologies , Manipulation Underwater, and Imaging in Visually Degraded Environments including underwater and in polar regions

Administrative Assistant, 

Assistant Professor, 

Integrated Circuits, Micro/Nano Electro Mechanical Systems (M/NEMS), Implantable and Wearable Medical Devices and Systems, Neural Interfaces

University Distinguished Professor, 

Feedback control theory, systems biology, cancer, and biomedicine

University Distinguished Professor, 

Motor control and learning, variability and stability, virtual rehabilitation, dynamic modeling, rhythmic and discrete movements as primitives for action

Professor, 

Wireless communications and networks, underwater acoustic transmission, statistical system characterization, adaptive signal processing

Associate Research Scientist, 

Assistant Professor, 

Distributed machine learning, security and fault-tolerance, neural computation, bio-inspired distributed algorithms, blockchains, autonomous cars, algorithm design

Research Coordinator of Digital Design, 

COE Distinguished Professor, 

New magnetic and magnetoelectric materials and device physics; integrated magnetic, ferroelectric and multiferroic materials and microsystems for sensing, memory, power, RF and microwave electronics; novel electrochemical sensors for sensing different pathogens and biomarkers for the diagnosis of various diseases, including COVID-19, Alzheimer’s disease, lung cancer, drug abuse, diabetes, etc.

Dennis Picard Trustee Professor, 

Dynamics-enabled machine learning, robust control, control oriented identification, semi-algebraic optimization, dynamic computer vision

Senior Vice Provost for Institutes, Centers, and Impact Engines, 

Sensor Devices and Smart Sensor Systems realized through interdisciplinary field of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS); including the design, optimization, fabrication, testing, and networking of such transducers; fabrication of novel micro and nano-sensors and actuators by integrating non-traditional materials using silicon planar microfabrication techniques and exploring phenomenon at the micro-nano interfaces; development of sustainable sensing solutions for biomedical applications including investigation of robust magnetic technologies for interfacing to the brain

Professor Emeritus, 

Control systems; dynamical systems; low order modeling and estimation in complex systems; medical imaging

Research Scientist, 

Program Manager, 

Associate Vice Provost for Research Computing, 

High performance computing (HPC), Quantum Computing, and Sustainable Computing.

Affiliated Faculty, 

Human motor control / learning, neurorehabilitation neuroscience, brain stimulation, brain imaging, virtual reality

Associate Co-op Coordinator, 

Senior Software Engineer, 

COE Distinguished Professor Emeritus, 

Elemagnetic wave propagation in anisotropic media, physics of magnetism, high tc superconductors and weak link devices, and ferrites and composites magnetic metal alloys and magnetic superlattices miniature microwave circuits.

Senior Co-op Coordinator & Assistant Director, 

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 

Associate Professor, 

Real-time and energy-efficient deep learning and artificial intelligence systems, model compression of deep neural networks (DNNs), neuromorphic computing and non-von Neumann computing paradigms

Associate Teaching Professor, 

Professor, 

Topological quantum materials, magnetic thin films, spin transport, spin torque, spin waves, and ferromagnetic resonance

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 

Research Engineer III, 

Assistant Professor, 

Security, Machine Learning, AI Security/Privacy, Energy-efficient Deep Learning, Computer Architecture, FPGA, Embedded Systems, VLSI

Assistant Professor, 

Movement neuroscience, motor physiology, clinical research, physiological signal processing, and biomechanics

Assistant Professor, 

Multi-robot systems, planning and control, distributed autonomy

Professor and Chair, 

AI/machine learning, wireless communication networks, Internet, content distribution networks, edge computing, image and video processing.

Assistant Teaching Professor, 

Associate Professor, 

Control, estimation, planning, learning and analysis of hybrid systems, with applications to autonomous, robotic and cyber-physical dynamic systems and their safety, robustness and resilience.

Assistant Professor, 

optoelectronic devices, single-photon detection, silicon photonics, large-scale photonic integrated circuits for interconnects and computing

Affiliated Faculty, 

Computational Acoustics, Digital Musical Instruments, Speech Synthesis, Virtual Reality

Assistant Director of Finance & Administration, 

Associate Professor, 

Artificial intelligence (AI) hardware, machine vision sensors, machine learning for electronic design automation, efficiency/security/privacy for autonomous systems, computer architecture, integrated circuits/VLSI design

Assistant Professor, 

Spin wave dynamics; magnon-based coherent information processing; quantum hybrid magnonics; integrated microwave, photonic, magnonic, and mechanical devices

Research Assistant Professor, 

Postdoctoral Research Associate,