Faculty and Staff Directory

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.northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3051

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

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

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

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

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

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

Marco Colangelo
Assistant Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Applied superconductivity, single-photon detectors, cryogenic devices, and nanofabrication technology

Ravinder Dahiya
Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Flexible printed electronics, robotics (soft robotics), electronic skin, tactile sensing, haptics, intelligent interactive systems, wearable systems

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

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.northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2034

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

Ken Duffy
Professor and Interim ECE Chair,
jointly appointed in Electrical and Computer Engineering & Mathematics Algorithms for communication systems, the life sciences, and DNA forensics. Primary focus currently on new approaches to forward error correction.

Jennifer Dy
Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Machine learning; data mining; statistical pattern recognition; computer vision and image processing
- jdy@ece.northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3062

Najme Ebrahimi
Assistant Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Broadband, energy-efficient, reconfigurable, and high data rate RF, mm-wave, and THz integrated circuits and systems; and security, connectivity, and localization of IoTs

Deniz Erdogmus
Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Statistical signal and image analysis, machine learning, neural interfaces, biomedical data analysis, human-intent inference for CPS
- erdogmus@ece.northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3021

Michael Everett
Assistant Professor,
jointly appointed in Electrical and Computer Engineering & Khoury College of Computer Sciences Robotics, motion planning, control theory, neural network verification, reinforcement learning

Yunsi Fei
Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs,
Office of the Dean Hardware-oriented security, computer architecture, embedded systems, design automation, IoT and cyber physical systems
- y.fei@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2039

Kevin Fu
Professor,
jointly appointed in Electrical and Computer Engineering & Khoury College of Computer Sciences protecting emerging sensor technology in biomedical engineering and cyberphysical systems

Yun Raymond Fu
COE Distinguished Professor,
jointly appointed in Electrical and Computer Engineering & Khoury College of Computer Sciences Artificial Intelligence: Machine Learning and Computational Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Big Data Mining and Social Media Analytics
- yunfu@ece.northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7328

Canek Fuentes Hernandez
Associate Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Flexible and stretchable organic microelectronics and optoelectronics, device physics and engineering for sensing and energy generation, high throughput manufacturing and heterogeneous integration
- c.fuentes@northeastern.edu
- 617-373-6328

Siddhartha Ghosh
Assistant Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Acousto-optic and acousto-electric signal processing devices, integrated photonics, piezoelectric MEMS, oscillator-based computing, nanofabrication techniques and heterogeneous material integration
- s.ghosh@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8040

Vincent G. Harris
University Distinguished Professor and William Lincoln Smith Chair Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Functional materials used in high frequency applications such as sensors, radar, and communication platforms, and nanotechnology, power electronics, and medical diagnostics and therapeutics
- harris@ece.northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7603

David Horsley
Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Micro-electromechanical Systems (MEMS), design and manufacturing of microfabricated sensors and actuators, mechatronics and control systems.

Mahdi Imani
Assistant Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Machine Learning, Control/Learning Theory, Bayesian Statistics, Signal Processing
- m.imani@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5433

Vinay Ingle
Associate Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Multidimensional signal processing and Hyperspectral imaging
- vingle@ece.northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3008

Stratis Ioannidis
Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Distributed systems, networking, machine learning, big data, and privacy
- ioannidis@ece.northeastern.edu
- 617.373.6358

Kristina Johnson
Assistant Professor,
jointly appointed in Electrical and Computer Engineering & Communication Sciences and Disorders Intersection of neuroscience, engineering, and autism

Josep M Jornet
Professor,
jointly appointed in Electrical and Computer Engineering & Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things Terahertz communications for 6G systems, wireless nano-bio-communication networks, Internet of Nano-Things
- j.jornet@northeastern.edu
- (617) 373-5719

David Kaeli
COE Distinguished Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Computer architecture; GPUs; heterogeneous computing; performance analysis; security and information assurance; hardware reliability and recovery; Big Data analytics; and workload characterization
- kaeli@ece.northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5413

Yong-Bin Kim
Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering 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
- ybk@ece.northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2919

Engin Kirda
Professor,
jointly appointed in Khoury College of Computer Sciences & Electrical and Computer Engineering Malware analysis and detection; web security; social network security; reverse engineering; intrusion detection
- ek@ccs.neu.edu
- 617.373.7484

Dimitrios Koutsonikolas
Associate Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering 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

Miriam Leeser
Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Accelerators for computer intensive applications from the edge to the cloud. Applications of FPGAs including wireless communications, machine learning and data privacy
- mel@ece.northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3814

Bradley Lehman
Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering 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
- lehman@ece.northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3052

Xue "Shelley" Lin
Associate Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Robust and Secure Machine Learning; Deep Learning on the Edge; Cyber-Physical Systems
- xue.lin@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4030

Yongmin Liu
Associate Professor,
jointly appointed in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering & Electrical and Computer Engineering Nano optics, nanoscale materials and engineering, nano devices, plasmonics, metamaterials, and applied physics
- y.liu@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4457

Fabrizio Lombardi
ITC Endowed Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Fault-tolerant computing, VLSI CAD, testing, configurable computing, distributed systems
- lombardi@ece.northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4854

Hessam Mahdavifar
Associate Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Coding and information theory, wireless communications, data privacy and security, privacy-preserving computing and learning

Edwin Marengo
Associate Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering 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
- emarengo@ece.northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3358