Department Directory
Lee Makowski
Professor,
jointly appointed in
Bioengineering
& Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Image and signal processing as applied to biophysical data designed to answer fundamental questions about the molecular basis of living systems, and progression of Alzheimer's Disease
- l.makowski@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3006
Avinash Manjula-Basavanna
Senior Research Scientist,
Bioengineering
Engineered Living Materials, Synthetic Biology, Materials Engineering, Biomanufacturing, Nanotechnology, Protein Engineering, Additive Manufacturing, Sustainability and Nature-Inspired Engineering.
Waleed Meleis
Vice Provost for Graduate Education,
Office of the Provost
Combinatorial optimization, function approximation for large-scale machine learning, platforms for large-scale social experimentation, assistive technology
Mona Minkara
Assistant Professor,
Bioengineering
Pulmonary surfactant (PS), Surfactant immunoproteins, Innate immune response, Computational methods, Computational modeling, Molecular Dynamics, Monte Carlo Simulations, Interfacial Phenomena, Biological interfaces, Therapeutics, Molecular Biophysics, Computational chemistry, Bioengineering, STEM Accessibility
- m.minkara@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2031
Lorraine Mountain
Assistant Dean & Senior Co-op Coordinator,
Cooperative Education
Departmental Programs: Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Data Analytics, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Energy Systems, Engineering Management, Engineering Public Policy, Environmental Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, Operations Research, Robotics, and Sustainable Building Systems.
- l.mountain@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2966
Mark Niedre
Associate Dean of PhD Education,
Office of the Dean
Biomedical optics and non-invasive imaging, rare cell detection and tracking in the body, ultrafast time-domain diffuse optical imaging, image reconstruction and biomedical signal processing
- m.niedre@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.5410
Stephanie Noble
Assistant Professor,
jointly appointed in
Psychology
& Bioengineering
statistical and computational tools to facilitate more precise human neuroscience inference and prediction
Jessica Oakes
Associate Professor,
Bioengineering
Pulmonary physiology, biofluids and transport phenomenon, computational biomechanics, magnetic resonance imaging, multi-scale modeling
- j.oakes@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7080
Mary Jo Ondrechen
Affiliated Faculty,
Bioengineering
Enzyme catalysis; functional genomics; modeling of enzyme substrate interactions; drug discovery; bioinformatics; protein design
- m.ondrechen@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2856
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
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
Caroline Pridmore
Academic Operations Manager,
Bioengineering
- c.pridmore@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.7223
Sara Rouhanifard
Assistant Professor,
Bioengineering
Developing chemical approaches to track and quantify important RNA processing events and modifications in single cells; DNA: protein interactions that drive differences in gene expression; understanding differences in RNA expression and the impacts on disease and development
- s.rouhanifard@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.2226
Jeffrey W. Ruberti
COE Distinguished Professor,
Bioengineering
Tissue engineering of load-bearing matrix (bone, cornea); bioreactor design; multi-scale mechanobiochemistry; statistical mechanics; energetics microscopy; high-resolution imaging; biopolymer self-assembly
- j.ruberti@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3984
Nora Salmon
Assistant Co-op Coordinator,
Cooperative Education
- n.salmon@northeastern.edu
- 617.373.3720