Faculty & Staff Directory
Jessica Ormsby
Senior Co-op Coordinator,
Cooperative Education - j.ormsby@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3935
Angie Osborn
Senior Marketing Specialist,
Gordon Institute of Engineering Leadership - a.osborn@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4244
Sarah Ostadabbas
Associate Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Computer Vision; Machine Learning; Artificial Intelligence; Augmented Cognition with Medical Applications; Augmented/Virtual Reality
- ostadabbas@ece.northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4992
Yusuf Ozbek
Teaching Professor,
Multidisciplinary Graduate Engineering Programs - yozbek@coe.northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8107
Ozan Cagatay Ozdemir
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Advanced metal additive manufacturing, compressible flows, multiphase flows, heat and mass transfer, thermodynamics, and failure analysis
- o.ozdemir@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2159
Jahir Pabon
Associate Teaching Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering - j.pabon@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7151
Taskin Padir
Director,
Institute for Experiential Robotics Experiential robotics, human-robot teaming at the extremes, embodied artificial intelligence
- t.padir@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8114
Himlona Palikhe
Associate Teaching Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering - h.palikhe@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4288
Lauren Pamas
Assistant Co-op Coordinator,
Cooperative Education - l.pamas@northeastern.edu
- 617-373-3478
Harikrishnan Parameswaran
Associate Professor,
Bioengineering We study cell-cell and cell-extracellular matrix interactions in the airway to understand the fundamental mechanisms that regulate airway caliber and why they fail in diseases like asthma.
- h.parameswaran@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7049
Rupal Patel
Affiliated Faculty,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Speech acoustics, Speech signal processing, AI Voice, voice analytics
- r.patel@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5842
Mark Patterson
Professor,
jointly appointed in
Marine and Environmental Sciences & Civil and Environmental Engineering
Development of autonomous underwater robots for civil infrastructure and marine sensing; decision support tools for gray/green infrastructure like tide gates; environmental fluid mechanics; biomechanics and mass transfer in living systems
- m.patterson@northeastern.edu
- 781.581.7370 x313
Misha Pavel
Affiliated Faculty,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Multi-scale computational modeling of complex behaviors of biological systems applied in healthcare, engineering, and augmentation of human performance
- pavelm@ccs.neu.edu
- 617.373.2462
Paul Pei
Assistant Teaching Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering - ji.pei@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4449
Courtney Pfluger
Teaching Professor,
Chemical Engineering Engineering education with a focus on technology enhancing pedagogues; Globalization in the classroom and international educational experiences; Sustainable energy and clean water technologies.
- c.pfluger@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8018
Kelsey Pieper
Assistant Professor,
Civil and Environmental Engineering Applied environmental chemistry; corrosion; drinking water quality, treatment, and infrastructure; post-disaster drinking water recovery; public health engineering
Maricla Pirozzi Quartey
Director,
Multidisciplinary Graduate Engineering Programs Area of Focus: Information Systems and co-op program director for Cyber-Physical Systems, Data Architecture and Management, Information Systems, Software Engineering Systems, and Telecommunication Networks
Simon Pitts
Program Director,
Gordon Institute of Engineering Leadership - s.pitts@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3630
Robert Platt
Affiliated Faculty,
jointly appointed in
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering & Electrical and Computer Engineering
- rplatt@ccs.neu.edu
- 617.373.7681
Adrianna Plavetsky
Academic Advisor and Program Manager, Seattle,
Multidisciplinary Graduate Engineering Programs 
Michele Polese
Assistant Research Professor,
jointly appointed in
Electrical and Computer Engineering & Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things
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
Taylor Pons
Senior Academic Advisor,
Undergraduate Academic Advising - t.pons@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2154
Nathan Post
Research Associate Professor,
jointly appointed in
Civil and Environmental Engineering & Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
optimization of structures and components for a circular economy and climate resilience with a focus on composite materials, advanced manufacturing, uncertainty analysis, and applied AI; applications include the wind industry, energy-efficient construction, managing extreme weather events, orthopedic implants.
Caroline Pridmore
Academic Operations Manager,
Bioengineering - c.pridmore@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7223
John G. Proakis
Professor Emeritus,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Digital Communications and Digital Signal Processing
Zhenyun Qian
Associate Research Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering - qian@ece.northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2751
Taryn June Quiroa Sullivan
Director of Operations and Business Management,
Civil and Environmental Engineering - t.sullivan@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4114