Our People

Faculty

In collaboration with Northeastern University's global campus, we have over 90 active faculty members, including 62 Core members and 31 Affiliate members. Our core AI research team pushes the frontiers of the technology while our applied AI team works to solve problems across industries.

Faculty Leadership Committee Member
Core Faculty Member
Machine Learning
Climate and Sustainability and Environment
Computer Vision
Data Mining
Jennifer Dy
Director of AI Faculty
j.dy@northeastern.edu
Faculty Leadership Committee Member
Wireless Communication
Core Faculty Member
Yakov Bart
Core Faculty
y.bart@northeastern.edu
Faculty Leadership Committee Member
Machine Learning
Robotics, Control, and Perception
Responsible and Ethical AI
Core Faculty Member
John Basl
Core Faculty
j.basl@northeastern.edu
Faculty Leadership Committee Member
Machine Learning
Data Mining
Time-Series, Spatio-Temporal Data, and Signal Processing
Climate and Sustainability and Environment
Engineering
Auroop Ganguly
Director of AI for Climate & Sustainability
a.ganguly@northeastern.edu
Faculty Leadership Committee Member
Statistics and Probability
Databases
Faculty Leadership Committee Member
Core Faculty Member
Wolfgang Gatterbauer
Core Faculty
w.gatterbauer@northeastern.edu
Faculty Leadership Committee Member
Health
Core Faculty Member
Faculty Leadership Committee Member
Matthew S. Goodwin
Core Faculty
m.goodwin@northeastern.edu
Faculty Leadership Committee Member
Optimization
Databases
Privacy and Cybersecurity
Scalable AI, ML Systems, and High Performance Computing
Design
David Kaeli
Core Faculty
d.kaeli@northeastern.edu
Faculty Leadership Committee Member
Machine Learning
Computer Vision
Human Computer Interaction
Core Faculty Member
Faculty Leadership Committee Member
Sarah Ostadabbas
Core Faculty
s.ostadabbas@northeastern.edu
Faculty Leadership Committee Member
Machine Learning
Data Mining
Life Sciences
Health
Predrag Radivojac
Core Faculty
p.radivojac@northeastern.edu
Faculty Leadership Committee Member
Machine Learning
Time-Series, Spatio-Temporal Data, and Signal Processing
Health
Life Sciences
Physics
Samuel Scarpino
Director of AI + Life Sciences
s.scarpino@northeastern.edu
Faculty Leadership Committee Member
Machine Learning
Optimization
Learning Theory
Health
Life Sciences
Eduardo Sontag
Core Faculty
e.sontag@northeastern.edu
Faculty Leadership Committee Member
Machine Learning
Optimization
Robotics, Control, and Perception
Human Computer Interaction
Time-Series, Spatio-Temporal Data, and Signal Processing
Eugene Tunik
Director of AI + Health
e.tunik@northeastern.edu
Faculty Leadership Committee Member
Human Computer Interaction
Responsible and Ethical AI
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
Health
Byron Wallace
Core Faculty
b.wallace@northeastern.edu
Affiliate Faculty Member
Machine Learning
Computer Vision
Time-Series, Spatio-Temporal Data, and Signal Processing
Security and Resilience
Wireless Communication
Aatmesh Shrivastava
Affiliate Faculty
aatmesh@ece.neu.edu
Affiliate Faculty Member
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Aidong Ding
Affiliate Faculty
a.ding@northeastern.edu
Core Faculty Member
Core Faculty Member
Ajay Satpute
Core Faculty
a.satpute@northeastern.edu
Core Faculty Member
Network Sciences
Core Faculty Member
Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
Core Faculty
a.barabasi@northeastern.edu
Core Faculty Member
Scalable AI, ML Systems, and High Performance Computing
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
Semantic Networks and Knowledge Graphs
Psychology
Alexandros Koliousis
Core Faculty
a.koliousis@northeastern.edu
Core Faculty Member
Machine Learning
Privacy and Cybersecurity
Security and Resilience
Core Faculty Member
Alina Oprea
Core Faculty
a.oprea@northeastern.edu
Core Faculty Member
Climate and Sustainability and Environment
Engineering
Devices
Sciences
Core Faculty Member
Amy Mueller
Core Faculty
a.mueller@northeastern.edu
Core Faculty Member
Life Sciences
Biology, Biochemistry, and Bioinformatics
Natural Language Processing
Semantic Networks and Knowledge Graphs
Statistics and Probability
Benjamin Gyori
Core Faculty
b.gyori@northeastern.edu
Core Faculty Member
Fraud Detection
Economics
Education
Health
Workforce Development
Beth Noveck
Core Faculty
b.noveck@northeastern.edu
Core Faculty Member
Social Sciences
Economics
Education
Psychology
Political Science and Government
Brian Ball
Core Faculty
b.ball@northeastern.edu
Affiliate Faculty Member
Business
Social Sciences
Social Justice
Brooke Foucault Welles
Affiliate Faculty
b.welles@northeastern.edu
Core Faculty Member
Core Faculty Member
Cansu Canca
Director of Responsible AI Practice
c.canca@northeastern.edu
Affiliate Faculty Member
Engineering
Carey M. Rappaport
Affiliate Faculty
rappaport@coe.neu.edu
Core Faculty Member
Machine Learning
Data Visualization
Human Computer Interaction
Climate and Sustainability and Environment
Design
Casper Harteveld
Core Faculty
c.harteveld@northeastern.edu
Affiliate Faculty Member
Ethics
Political Science and Government
Social Sciences
Christo Wilson
Affiliate Faculty
c.wilson@northeastern.edu
Core Faculty Member
Machine Learning
Robotics, Control, and Perception
Multi-Agent Systems
Planning and Reasoning
Core Faculty Member
Christopher Amato
Core Faculty
c.amato@northeastern.edu
Core Faculty Member
Time-Series, Spatio-Temporal Data, and Signal Processing
Statistics and Probability
Privacy and Cybersecurity
Robotics and Autonomous Vehicles
Security and Resilience
Cristina Nita-Rotaru
Core Faculty
c.nitarotaru@northeastern.edu
Affiliate Faculty Member
Engineering
Health
Life Sciences
Dagmar Sternad
Affiliate Faculty
d.sternad@northeastern.edu
Core Faculty Member
Data Visualization
Human Computer Interaction
Machine Learning
Multi-Agent Systems
Responsible and Ethical AI
Dakuo Wang
Core Faculty
d.wang@northeastern.edu
Core Faculty Member
Computer Vision
Natural Language Processing
Responsible and Ethical AI
Machine Learning
Core Faculty Member
David Bau
Core Faculty
d.bau@northeastern.edu
Affiliate Faculty Member
Internet of Things
Security and Resilience
David Choffnes
Affiliate Faculty
d.choffnes@northeastern.edu
Affiliate Faculty Member
Psychology
Social Justice
Business
Ethics
David De Cremer
Affiliate Faculty
d.decremer@northeastern.edu
Core Faculty Member
Core Faculty Member
David Lazer
Core Faculty
d.lazer@northeastern.edu
Core Faculty Member
Health
Core Faculty Member
David Madigan
Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs
d.madigan@northeastern.edu
Core Faculty Member
Climate and Sustainability and Environment
Engineering
Mathematics
Natural Sciences
Robotics and Autonomous Vehicles
David Rosen
Core Faculty
d.rosen@northeastern.edu
Core Faculty Member
Natural Language Processing
Core Faculty Member
David Smith
Core Faculty
davi.smith@northeastern.edu
Core Faculty Member
Learning Theory
Machine Learning
Optimization
Planning and Reasoning
Statistics and Probability
Deniz Erdogmus
Core Faculty
d.erdogmus@northeastern.edu
Core Faculty Member
Scalable AI, ML Systems, and High Performance Computing
Engineering
Core Faculty Member
Devesh Tiwari
Core Faculty
d.tiwari@northeastern.edu
Affiliate Faculty Member
Privacy and Cybersecurity
Machine Learning
Optimization
Statistics and Probability
Engineering
Edmund Yeh
Affiliate Faculty
eyeh@ece.neu.edu
Affiliate Faculty Member
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Emily Zimmerman
Affiliate Faculty
e.zimmerman@neu.edu
Core Faculty Member
Privacy and Cybersecurity
Security and Resilience
Core Faculty Member
Engin Kirda
Core Faculty
e.kirda@northeastern.edu
Core Faculty Member
Data Mining
Data Visualization
Human Computer Interaction
Education
Health
Enrico Bertini
Core Faculty
e.bertini@northeastern.edu
Core Faculty Member
Machine Learning
Multi-Agent Systems
Optimization
Planning and Reasoning
Robotics, Control, and Perception
Fatemeh Ghoreishi
Core Faculty
f.ghoreishi@northeastern.edu
Affiliate Faculty Member
Engineering
Francesco Restuccia
Affiliate Faculty
f.restuccia@northeastern.edu
Affiliate Faculty Member
Design
Health
Internet of Things
Gregory Abowd
Affiliate Faculty
g.abowd@northeastern.edu
Affiliate Faculty Member
Time-Series, Spatio-Temporal Data, and Signal Processing
Machine Learning
Computer Vision
Robotics, Control, and Perception
Climate and Sustainability and Environment
Hanumant Singh
Affiliate Faculty
ha.singh@northeastern.edu
Core Faculty Member
Network Sciences
Economics
Machine Learning
Learning Theory
Robust Learning
Hongyang Zhang
Core Faculty
hrzhang@northeastern.edu
Core Faculty Member
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
Core Faculty Member
Huaizu Jiang
Core Faculty
h.jiang@northeastern.edu
Affiliate Faculty Member
Arts and Humanities
Education
Ethics
Philosophy
Ilya Vidrin
Affiliate Faculty
i.vidrin@northeastern.edu
Core Faculty Member
Machine Learning
Statistics and Probability
Biology, Biochemistry, and Bioinformatics
Health
Life Sciences
Justin Manjourides
Core Faculty
j.manjourides@northeastern.edu
Core Faculty Member
Psychology
Core Faculty Member
Karen Quigley
Core Faculty
k.quigley@northeastern.edu
Affiliate Faculty Member
Ethics
Responsible and Ethical AI
Philosophy
Kathleen Creel
Affiliate Faculty
k.creel@northeastern.edu
Affiliate Faculty Member
Life Sciences
Climate and Sustainability and Environment
Katie Lotterhos
Affiliate Faculty
k.lotterhos@northeastern.edu
Core Faculty Member
Machine Learning
Optimization
Core Faculty Member
Laurent Lessard
Core Faculty
l.lessard@northeastern.edu
Core Faculty Member
Reinforcement Learning
Machine Learning
Robotics, Control, and Perception
Planning and Reasoning
Core Faculty Member
Lawson L.S. Wong
Core Faculty
l.wong@northeastern.edu
Affiliate Faculty Member
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Lee Makowski
Affiliate Faculty
l.makowski@northeastern.edu
Core Faculty Member
Learning Theory
Planning and Reasoning
Machine Learning
Optimization
Statistics and Probability
Lili Su
Core Faculty
l.su@northeastern.edu
Core Faculty Member
Core Faculty Member
Lisa Barrett
Core Faculty
l.barrett@northeastern.edu
Affiliate Faculty Member
Engineering
Luca Caracoglia
Affiliate Faculty
l.caracoglia@northeastern.edu
Core Faculty Member
Education
Ethics
Law
Philosophy
Psychology
Malihe Alikhani
Core Faculty
m.alikhani@northeastern.edu
Affiliate Faculty Member
Life Sciences
Biology, Biochemistry, and Bioinformatics
Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Mary Jo Ondrechen
Affiliate Faculty
m.ondrechen@northeastern.edu
Core Faculty Member
Engineering
Behavioral Neuroscience
Biotechnology
Health
Psychology
Matthew Yarossi
Core Faculty
m.yarossi@northeastern.edu
Affiliate Faculty Member
Devices
Design
Engineering
Ethics
Health
Megan Hofmann
Affiliate Faculty
m.hofmann@northeastern.edu
Core Faculty Member
Core Faculty Member
Melanie Tory
Core Faculty
m.tory@northeastern.edu
Core Faculty Member
Multi-Agent Systems
Scalable AI, ML Systems, and High Performance Computing
Robotics, Control, and Perception
Core Faculty Member
Milad Siami
Core Faculty
m.siami@northeastern.edu
Affiliate Faculty Member
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Milica Stojanovic
Affiliate Faculty
millitsa@ece.neu.edu
Core Faculty Member
Optimization
Machine Learning
Data Mining
Scalable AI, ML Systems, and High Performance Computing
Engineering
Muhammad Noor E Alam
Core Faculty
md.alam@northeastern.edu
Core Faculty Member
Core Faculty Member
Ningfang Mi
Core Faculty
n.mi@northeastern.edu
Core Faculty Member
Machine Learning
Statistics and Probability
Health
Life Sciences
Core Faculty Member
Olga Vitek
Core Faculty
o.vitek@northeastern.edu
Core Faculty Member
Business
Engineering
Health
Core Faculty Member
Ozlem Ergun
Core Faculty
o.ergun@northeastern.edu
Core Faculty Member
Business
Ethics
Bio Engineering
Core Faculty Member
Patricia J. Williams
Core Faculty
p.williams@northeastern.edu
Core Faculty Member
Machine Learning
Statistics and Probability
Privacy and Cybersecurity
Time-Series, Spatio-Temporal Data, and Signal Processing
Physics
Pau Closas
Core Faculty
pau.closas@northeastern.edu
Core Faculty Member
Machine Learning
Optimization
Time-Series, Spatio-Temporal Data, and Signal Processing
Generative Modeling
Core Faculty Member
Paul Hand
Core Faculty
p.hand@northeastern.edu
Affiliate Faculty Member
Health
Life Sciences
Raimond L. Winslow
Affiliate Faculty
r.winslow@northeastern.edu
Affiliate Faculty Member
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Rifat Sipahi
Affiliate Faculty
rifat@coe.neu.edu
Affiliate Faculty Member
Devices
Health
Psychology
Robert Leeman
Affiliate Faculty
r.leeman@northeastern.edu
Core Faculty Member
Planning and Reasoning
Machine Learning
Computer Vision
Robotics, Control, and Perception
Human Computer Interaction
Robert Platt
Core Faculty
r.platt@northeastern.edu
Core Faculty Member
Network Sciences
Climate and Sustainability and Environment
Engineering
Materials
Robotics and Autonomous Vehicles
Robin Walters
Core Faculty
r.walters@northeastern.edu
Core Faculty Member
Responsible and Ethical AI
Core Faculty Member
Ronald Sandler
Core Faculty
r.sandler@northeastern.edu
Affiliate Faculty Member
Natural Language Processing
Responsible and Ethical AI
Synthetic Voice
Machine Learning
Business
Rupal Patel
Affiliate Faculty
r.patel@northeastern.edu
Affiliate Faculty Member
Social Sciences
Climate and Sustainability and Environment
Health
Engineering
Ryan Qi Wang
Affiliate Faculty
ryan.qi.wang@gmail.com
Affiliate Faculty Member
Biology, Biochemistry, and Bioinformatics
Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Engineering
Life Sciences
Materials
Sijia Dong
Affiliate Faculty
s.dong@northeastern.edu
Core Faculty Member
Natural Language Processing
Responsible and Ethical AI
Machine Learning
Data Mining
Core Faculty Member
Silvio Amir
Core Faculty
s.amir@northeastern.edu
Core Faculty Member
Human Computer Interaction
Responsible and Ethical AI
Ethics
Social Sciences
Core Faculty Member
Sina Fazelpour
Core Faculty
s.fazel-pour@northeastern.edu
Affiliate Faculty Member
Wireless Communication
Internet of Things
Stefano Basagni
Affiliate Faculty
s.basagni@northeastern.edu
Core Faculty Member
Machine Learning
Human Computer Interaction
Health
Core Faculty Member
Stephen Intille
Core Faculty
s.intille@northeastern.edu
Core Faculty Member
Machine Learning
Optimization
Statistics and Probability
Data Mining
Privacy and Cybersecurity
Stratis Ioannidis
Core Faculty
e.ioannidis@northeastern.edu
Affiliate Faculty Member
Sciences
Climate and Sustainability and Environment
Life Sciences
Tarik Gouhier
Affiliate Faculty
t.gouhier@northeastern.edu
Affiliate Faculty Member
Optimization
Robotics, Control, and Perception
Human Computer Interaction
Responsible and Ethical AI
Planning and Reasoning
Taskin Padir
Affiliate Faculty
t.padir@northeastern.edu
Core Faculty Member
Machine Learning
Statistics and Probability
Data Mining
Responsible and Ethical AI
Social Sciences
Tina Eliassi-Rad
Core Faculty
t.eliassirad@northeastern.edu
Affiliate Faculty Member
Health
Psychology
Human Computer Interaction
Varun Mishra
Affiliate Faculty
v.mishra@northeastern.edu
Core Faculty Member
Machine Learning
Optimization
Statistics and Probability
Data Mining
Natural Language Processing
Wei Xie
Core Faculty
w.xie@northeastern.edu
Affiliate Faculty Member
Law
Woodrow Hartzog
Affiliate Faculty
w.hartzog@northeastern.edu
Core Faculty Member
Privacy and Cybersecurity
Scalable AI, ML Systems, and High Performance Computing
Xue Lin
Core Faculty
xue.lin@northeastern.edu
Core Faculty Member
Machine Learning
Optimization
Computer Vision
Natural Language Processing
Scalable AI, ML Systems, and High Performance Computing
Yanzhi Wang
Core Faculty
yanz.wang@northeastern.edu
Core Faculty Member
Behavioral Neuroscience
Engineering
Human Computer Interaction
Machine Learning
Responsible and Ethical AI
Yingzi Lin
Core Faculty
yi.lin@northeastern.edu
Affiliate Faculty Member
Design
Devices
Engineering
Materials
Physics
Yongmin Liu
Affiliate Faculty
y.liu@northeastern.edu