2021 Electrical and Computer Engineering Outstanding Recent Faculty Hires

OUTSTANDING RECENT FACULTY HIRES Srinivas Tadigadapa, chair of Northeastern’s Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, is proud to recognize our most recent faculty’s accomplishments.

Gregory D. Abowd

Professor and Dean of the College of Engineering PhD: University of Oxford, United Kingdom, 1991 Joined Northeastern: March 2021 Scholarship Focus: Mobile and ubiquitous computing, human-computer interaction Awards and Recent Projects: • ACM Eugene Lawler Humanitarian Award, 2009 • ACM Fellow, 2008 • ACM SIGCHI Academy, 2008

Benyamin Davaji

Assistant Professor PhD: Marquette University, 2016 Postdoctoral Research Associate: Cornell University, 2016-21 Joining Northeastern: January 2022 Scholarship Focus: Integrated microsystems, data-guided design and nanofabrication, ultrasound microsystems for sensing and computation, and MEMS calorimetry for microbiology and biosensor development Awards and Recent Projects: • Postdoctoral achievement award, Cornell University, 2019 • Best TA award, Marquette University, 2014

Kristen Dorsey

Associate Professor PhD: Carnegie Mellon University, 2013 Assistant Professor of Engineering: Smith College, 2015-21 Joined Northeastern: August 2021 Scholarship Focus: Soft robotics, wearable devices, active and multifunctional materials, flexible electronics Awards and Recent Projects: • NSF CAREER Award, 2019

Canek Fuentes-Hernandez

Associate Professor PhD: University of Arizona, 2004 Principal Research Scientist: Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-21 Joined Northeastern: August 2021 Scholarship Focus: Flexible and stretchable organic microelectronics and optoelectronics, device physics and engineering for sensing and energy generation, high throughput manufacturing and heterogeneous integration Awards and Recent Projects: • “Energy-efficient and Sustainable Sun-like Solid-state Lighting for Improved Human Health,” Georgia Tech (PI), 2020 • “Optically-gated Camera,” Georgia Research Alliance (PI), 2015

NORTHEASTERN ENGINEERING

Mahdi Imani

Assistant Professor PhD: Texas A&M University, 2019 Joined Northeastern: August 2021 Assistant Professor: George Washington University, 2019-21 Scholarship Focus: Machine learning and data analytics, control theory and reinforcement learning, bayesian optimization and statistical learning, statistical signal processing and integrated sensing Awards and Recent Projects: • “Scalable and Reliable Optimization of Expensive Multi-Modal Functions: A Bayesian Perspective,” ARMY (PI), 2021 • “Informative Bayesian Learning and Data Gathering Through Expert-Acquired Data,” NSF (PI), 2020

Sunil Mittal

Assistant Professor PhD: University of Maryland, 2014 Postdoctoral Researcher: University of Maryland, 2015-21 Joined Northeastern: August 2021 Scholarship Focus: Topological phenomena, non-Hermitian physics, quantum photonics, nonlinear photonics, two-dimensional materials Awards and Recent Projects: • “Entangled Walkers in Time-multiplexed Topological Synthetic Space,” Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland (Co-PI), 2020

David Rosen

Assistant Professor PhD: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016 Postdoctoral Associate: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018-21 Joined Northeastern: August 2021 Scholarship Focus: Robotics, optimization, geometry and topology, probability and statistics, machine learning Awards and Recent Projects: • RSS Pioneer, 2019 • Best Paper Award, International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR), 2016

Xufeng Zhang

Assistant Professor PhD: Yale University, 2016 Assistant Scientist: Argonne National Laboratory, 2018-21 Joining Northeastern: January 2022 Scholarship Focus: Spin wave dynamics; magnon-based coherent information processing; quantum hybrid magnonics; integrated microwave, photonic, magnonic, and mechanical devices Awards and Recent Projects: • “Amplification of Exchange Magnons in Nanometer-Thick YIG Films by Spin-Orbit Torque,” DARPA (PI), 2021 • “Photonic Sensor Platform for Point of Interest Soil Sensing,” NSF (Co-PI), 2019

INNOVATING FOR SOCIETY

The department has 69 tenured/tenure-track faculty, 300 PhD students, and external research awards of $48M. Our downtown Boston campus with research centers and institutes in cutting-edge areas facilitates collaborations with major medical centers, research labs, and industry. Our next generation of faculty are actively contributing to scholarship and societal need.

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