Faculty & Staff Directory
Megan Woodbury
Postdoctoral Research Associate,
PROTECT
Prenatal exposures and neurodevelopment, neurotoxicology, environmental epidemiology, environmental health, public health, endocrine disrupting chemicals, drugs and supplements, interactive effects of exposures
Benjamin Woolston
Assistant Professor,
Chemical Engineering
Metabolic engineering and synthetic biology for sustainable biochemical production and human health
- b.woolston@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5560
Kimberly Wright
Academic Advisor and Program Manager, Silicon Valley,
Graduate School of Engineering
Mingzhong Wu
Professor,
jointly appointed in
Physics
& Electrical and Computer Engineering
Topological quantum materials, magnetic thin films, spin transport, spin torque, spin waves, and ferromagnetic resonance
Wei Xie
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Interpretable AI, IoT, computer simulation, data integrity and big data analytics, data-driven stochastic optimization, blockchain design and development for complex end-to-end cyber-physical system learning and risk management with applications, including biopharmaceutical manufacturing and supply chains, smart power grids with renewable energy, and health care
- w.xie@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.6917
Xiaolin Xu
Assistant Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Security, Machine Learning, AI Security/Privacy, Energy-efficient Deep Learning, Computer Architecture, FPGA, Embedded Systems, VLSI
Mathew Yarossi
Assistant Professor,
jointly appointed in
Physical Therapy, Movement and Rehabilitation Sciences
& Electrical and Computer Engineering
Movement neuroscience, motor physiology, clinical research, physiological signal processing, and biomechanics
Mohammad Abbas Yaseen
Assistant Professor,
Bioengineering
Advanced microscopy for minimally invasive, in vivo characterization of brain function
- m.yaseen@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.8584
Yasin Yazicioglu
Assistant Professor,
jointly appointed in
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
& Electrical and Computer Engineering
Multi-robot systems, planning and control, distributed autonomy
- y.yazicioglu@northeastern.edu
- (617) 373-4856
Adetoun Yeaman
Assistant Teaching Professor,
First Year Engineering Program
Empathy in engineering, design education, character education, community engagement and multimedia learning
Mishac K. Yegian
COE Distinguished Professor Emeritus,
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Geotechnical earthquake engineering; soil dynamics; geosynthetics; seismic response of landfills; base isolation; liquefaction; bridge engineering; use of shaking table in earthquake engineering
- m.yegian@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2448
Edmund Yeh
Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Networked machine learning;
networking and systems for data-intensive engineering, science, health applications;
caching, edge computing;
wireless network optimization;
coding for low latency, network coding, polar codes;
interdependent networks, cascading failure, information dissemination; network economics.
- eyeh@ece.northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5400
Roi Yehoshua
Assistant Teaching Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering
- r.yehoshua@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2462
Sze Zheng Yong
Associate Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
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.
Yoseob Yoon
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Optoelectronic and mechanical properties of quantum materials, van der Waals heterostructures, engineering light-matter interactions, ultrafast optical and THz spectroscopy, THz-induced phenomena, coherent control of material properties
Chen-Hsiang "Jones" Yu
Teaching Professor,
Multidisciplinary Graduate Engineering Programs
HCI (Human-Computer Interaction), AI on mobiles, web customization and automation, readability enhancement
Xubo Yue
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Federated data analytics, Bayesian optimization, continuous optimization, Gaussian processes, deep learning
Victor Zappi
Affiliated Faculty,
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Computational Acoustics, Digital Musical Instruments, Speech Synthesis, Virtual Reality
- v.zappi@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4060
Ibrahim Zeid
Professor,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Mechanics; personalized medicine; simulation techniques and complex networks analysis
- zeid@coe.northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3817
Moira Zellner
Professor,
Public Policy and Urban Affairs
complex systems modeling, human-natural systems modeling, participatory modeling, environmental planning and policy
Cheng Zeng
Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Data Science; Computational Materials Science; Additive Manufacturing; Corrosion and Protection
- c.zeng@northeastern.edu
- 4013966668
Ke Zhang
Affiliated Faculty,
jointly appointed in
Bioengineering
& Chemical Engineering
Polymer Chemistry, Nucleic Acid Chemistry, Nanomedicine
- k.zhang@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.4415
Wenjun Zhang
Assistant Director of Finance & Administration,
Institute for NanoSystems Innovation
- w.zhang@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5254
Xuan (Silvia) Zhang
Associate Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering
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
Xufeng Zhang
Assistant Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Spin wave dynamics; magnon-based coherent information processing; quantum hybrid magnonics; integrated microwave, photonic, magnonic, and mechanical devices
- xu.zhang@northeastern.edu
- 617-373-5624
Yang Zhang
Professor, Distinguished Fellow, and Associate Chair for Research,
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Air quality; atmospheric chemistry; cloud/aerosol microphysics; sensitivity and uncertainty analysis; multiscale atmospheric modeling and forecasting; climate and Earth system modeling; health impact assessment; eco-environmental sustainability; human-Earth system interactions
- ya.zhang@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3503
Qing Zhao
Assistant Professor,
Chemical Engineering
Computational catalyst and material design for sustainable energy applications.
- q.zhao@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5892