Welcome New Faculty The College of Engineering has hired 36 faculty since 2013, and 12 in 2015.
Muhammad Noor E Alam
Mahshid Amirabadi
Nasim Annabi
Qianqian Fang
Stratis Ioannidis
Ryan Koppes
Taskin Padir
Ameet Pinto
Hanumant Singh
Nikolai Slavov
John Peter Whitney
Hongli Julie Zhu
Muhammad Noor E Alam joins Northeastern as an assistant professor of mechanical and industrial engineering. His research focus is on applied operations research, large scale optimization, and data analytics. Mahshid Amirabadi joins Northeastern as an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering. Her research focus is on design, modeling and control of power converters, power electronics for renewable energy systems, microgrids, variable speed drives and wireless power transfer. Nasim Annabi joins Northeastern as an assistant professor of chemical engineering. Her research focus is on engineering advanced biomaterials for cardiovascular tissue engineering applications. Qianqian Fang joins Northeastern as an assistant professor of bioengineering. His research focus is on medical imaging and biomedical optics. Stratis Ioannidis joins Northeastern as an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering. His research focus is on big data, machine learning, privacy, and distributed systems. Ryan Koppes joins Northeastern as an assistant professor of chemical 24 Engineering @ Northeastern
engineering. His research focus is on neural interface technology, tissue engineering, and musculoskeletal biomechanics.
mass-spectrometry; cell metabolism; quantitative systems biology; computational biology, bioinformatics, proteomics and genomics.
Taskin Padir joins Northeastern as an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering. His research focus is on modeling and control of robot systems, human-in-the-loop robot control, and realization of medical cyberphysical systems.
John Peter Whitney joins Northeastern as an assistant professor of mechanical and industrial engineering. His research focus is on human-safe robots, medical robotics, soft robotics and soft material manufacturing, MEMS, microrobotics, bio-inspired design, flapping aerodynamics and insect flight.
Ameet Pinto joins Northeastern as an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering. His research focus is on microbial ecology and physiology, drinking water treatment and distribution, wastewater treatment, public health microbiology, molecular microbiology, ‘omics analyses. Hanumant Singh joins Northeastern as a professor of electrical and computer engineering. His research focus is on robotic sensors, systems, platforms, and algorithms including high resolution optical and acoustic sensing; underwater vehicles. Nikolai Slavov joins Northeastern as an assistant professor of bioengineering. His research focus is on ribosomemediated translational regulation, coordination of cell growth and differentiation; statistical inference,
Hongli Julie Zhu joins Northeastern as an assistant professor of mechanical and industrial engineering. Her focus is on advanced manufacturing; Multifunctional bio-inspired material from nature; Sustainable energy storage; Nano/micro fabrication of devices and materials.
PROMOTIONS Mark Niedre (ECE, BioE) was promoted to associate professor, PhD University of Toronto Jeffrey Ruberti (BioE) was promoted to professor, PhD Tulane University Nian Sun (ECE, BioE) was promoted to professor, PhD Stanford University