Faculty
Faculty at NanoSI are leading interdisciplinary researchers driving innovation in integrated nanosystems, spanning materials, devices, and emerging technologies, to shape the future of sensing, computing, and communications through deep tech breakthrough.
Cristian Cassella
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Core Expertise: RF Engineering, MEMS, Electromagnetics, Nonlinear Physics
Project Areas: Smart Sensing, AI and Next Generation Computing Hardware, 5G, 6G, NextG, Wireless Communications, AI and Digital Twin for Advanced Manufacturing
Biography
Cristian Cassella received the B.S.E. and M.Sc. degrees (Hons.) from the University of Rome Tor Vergata in 2006 and 2009, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from Carnegie Mellon University in 2015. In 2011, he was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2015, he was a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at Northeastern University. In 2016, he became an Associate Research Scientist. Later, in 2018, he became a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Northeastern University in Boston (USA). He has been an Associate Professor with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Northeastern University since 2023.
He is the author of nearly 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. Two of his peer-reviewed journal articles published on the IEEE Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems (JMEMS) were selected as Papers of Excellent Quality (JMEMS RightNowPapers), hence being released as open-access. One of his journal articles was chosen as the cover for the Nature Nanotechnology October 2017 Issue. Another one of his journal articles was selected as a featured article by the Applied Physics Letters magazine.
He holds six patents and four patent applications in the area of acoustic resonators and RF systems. In 2018, he was awarded by the European Community (EU) the Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship. In 2021, he was a recipient of the NSF Career Award. He received the Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium in 2013, 2021, (with his student), 2022 (with his student) and 2023 (with his student).
He is a Technical Reviewer of several journals, such as Applied Physics Letters, IEEE Transactions On Electron Devices, IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectric and Frequency Control, IEEE Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, IEEE Electron Device Letters, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, Journal of Applied Physics, IEEE Sensors Letters, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE Microwave and Wireless Technology Letters, and Review of Scientific Instruments.
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- Low-Power Computing based on Programmable Multidimensional Circuits
– Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation - Boosting the Cold Chain Efficiency Through Integrated, Magnetoelectric, Piezoelectric and Ferroelectric Devices in pAssive on-Chip Tags (IMPACT)
– Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation - Programmable Electromagnetic Surfaces Based on Ferroelectric and Antiferroelectric Hafnium Zirconium Oxide Films and Graphene for Terahertz Communications and Sensing
– Co-Principal Investigator, AFOSR - Nano-opto-mechanical Piezoelectric Resonant Infrared-sensitive Metamaterials for Quantum-Limited Photodetection
– Co-Principal Investigator, DARPA - Advancing Coexistence through a Cross-Layer Design Platform with an Adaptive Frequency-Selective Radio Front-End and Digital Algorithms
– Co-Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation - Massive Scale Computing and Optimization through On-chip ParameTric Ising MAchines (OPTIMA)
– Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation - Giant Tunability through Piezoelectric Resonant Acoustic Metamaterials for Radio Frequency Adaptive Integrated Electronics
– Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation CAREER Award - Ferroelectric Integrated and Reconfigurable ScAlN Technologies
– Co-Principal Investigator, DARPA - Fully Integrated Parametric Filters for Extensive Phase- Noise Reduction in Low-Power RF Front-Ends and Resonant Sensing Platforms
– Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation
Marco Colangelo
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Core Expertise: Sensing, Electronics, Information Processing
Project Areas: Smart Sensing, AI and Next Generation Computing Hardware, AI and Digital Twin for Advanced Manufacturing, Quantum and Photonics
Biography
Marco received the B.Sc. in Physics Engineering from Politecnico di Torino (IT) in 2015, the joint M.Sc. in Nanotechnologies for Information and Communication Technology from Politecnico di Torino (IT) and the Grenoble Institute of Technology (FR) in 2017, and the M.Sc. in Electronic Engineering from Politecnico di Milano (IT) in 2018. Marco joined MIT in 2018 to pursue his graduate studies. In 2018 He was awarded the Jacobs Presidential Fellowship.
Marco’s research has been focused on developing devices based on superconducting nanowires. His research was first devoted to improving superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors for applications in classical and quantum communication. He is currently focused on studying the microwave properties of superconducting nanowires and how these can be harnessed to develop ultra-compact electronic devices. The development of a cryogenic microwave electronic platform based on superconducting nanowire might provide a path for scaling up superconducting quantum technology. In his free time, Marco enjoys hiking and rock climbing.
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- Superconducting Deep Neural Networks at the Edge
– co-PI, DARPA
Luca Colombo
Assistant Research Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Core Expertise: Acoustic, RF MEMS, and microsystems
Project Areas: 5G, 6G, NextG, Wireless Communications
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Benyamin Davaji
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Core Expertise: Integrated microsystems, data-guided design and nanofabrication, ultrasound microsystems for sensing and computation, and MEMS calorimetry for microbiology and biosensor development
Project Areas: Smart Sensing, AI and Next Generation Computing Hardware, Biomedical Devices & Microsystems, AI and Digital Twin for Advanced Manufacturing
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Yunsi Fei
Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs, Office of the Dean
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Northeastern Site Lead, CHEST
Core Expertise: Hardware-oriented security, computer architecture, embedded systems, design automation, IoT and cyber-physical systems
Project Areas: Integrated Circuits and Hardware Security, AI and Next Generation Computing Hardware,
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Kevin Fu
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Core Expertise: Cybersecurity, with a strong emphasis on medical device and healthcare cybersecurity
Project Areas: Smart Sensing, Integrated Circuits and Hardware Security, Biomedical Devices & Microsystems
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Siddhartha Ghosh
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Core Expertise: Microsystems, materials & devices, electromagnetics, and optics
Project Areas: Smart Sensing, AI and Next Generation Computing Hardware, 5G, 6G, NextG, Wireless Communications
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David Horsley
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Core Expertise: MEMS and sensors
Project Areas: Smart sensing, 5G, 6G, NextG, Wireless Communications, Biomedical Devices & Microsystems
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Yongmin Liu
Professor, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Core Expertise: Metamaterials and metasurfaces, nano poasmonics, ultrafast control of magnetism
Project Areas: Smart Sensing, AI and Next Generation Computing Hardware, Quantum and Photonics
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Sunil Mittal
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Core Expertise: Quantum photonics
Project Areas: Smart Sensing, AI and Next Generation Computing Hardware, Quantum and Photonics
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Aravind Nagulu
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Core Expertise: Analog/RF/millimeter-wave integrated circuits and systems, analog computing, bio-medical scanners, and hardware for large-scale quantum computing systems
Project Areas: Integrated Circuits and Hardware Security, AI and Next Generation Computing Hardware
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Marvin Onabajo
Professor and Associate Chair for Faculty Affairs, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Core Expertise: Low-power radio frequency (RF) circuits for short-range wireless communication, Chip design techniques for brain signal measurements over long time durations, performance enhancement methods, detection of Trojan circuits with on-chip temperature sensors
Project Areas: Integrated Circuits and Hardware Security, AI and Next Generation Computing Hardware, 5G, 6G, NextG, Wireless Communications, Biomedical Devices & Microsystems
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Flavius Pop
Assistant Research Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Core Expertise: MEMS Sensors and Devices
Project Areas: Biomedical Devices & Microsystems
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Zhenyun Qian
Associate Research Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Core Expertise: Sensors, MEMS, microfabrication
Project Areas: Smart Sensing, 5G, 6G, NextG, Wireless Communications,
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Matteo Rinaldi
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Core Expertise: Zero-power sensing, 5G/6G communications, infrared sensors, acoustic wave RF filters, piezoelectric materials, and microsystems
Project Areas: Smart Sensing, AI and Next Generation Computing Hardware, 5G, 6G, NextG, Wireless Communications, Biomedical Devices & Microsystems
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Aatmesh Shrivastava
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Core Expertise: Ultra-low Power Circuits and Systems, Analog Computing, Precision Circuits, Hardware Security, 5G, 6G, NextG, Wireless Communications, Biomedical Devices & Microsystems
Project Areas: Smart Sensing, Integrated Circuits and Hardware Security, AI and Next Generation Computing Hardware,
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Pietro Simeoni
Principal Research Scientist, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Core Expertise: Piezoelectric MEMS platforms, material development, sensing and communication systems
Project Areas: Smart Sensing, 5G, 6G, NextG, Wireless Communications, AI and Digital Twin for Advanced Manufacturing
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Soner Sonmezoglu
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Core Expertise: Integrated Circuits, Micro/Nano Electro Mechanical Systems (M/NEMS), Implantable and Wearable Medical Devices and Systems, Neural Interfaces
Project Areas: Smart Sensing, Integrated Circuits and Hardware Security, 5G, 6G, NextG, Wireless Communications, Biomedical Devices & Microsystems
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Yanzhi Wang
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Core Expertise: Real-time and energy-efficient deep learning and artificial intelligence systems, model compression of deep neural networks (DNNs), neuromorphic computing and non-von Neumann computing paradigms
Project Areas: Integrated Circuits and Hardware Security, AI and Next Generation Computing Hardware, AI and Digital Twin for Advanced Manufacturing
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Yuan Yuan
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Core Expertise: Real-time and energy-efficient deep learning and artificial intelligence systems, model compression of deep neural networks (DNNs), neuromorphic computing, and non-von Neumann computing paradigms
Project Areas: AI and Next Generation Computing Hardware, Biomedical Devices & Microsystems, Quantum and Photonics
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Xuan (Silvia) Zhang
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Core Expertise: Computer Architecture, Electronic Design Automation (EDA), VLSI/IC Design, Hardware/Software Co-design
Project Areas: Smart Sensing, Integrated Circuits and Hardware Security, AI and Next Generation Computing Hardware, AI and Digital Twin for Advanced Manufacturing
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Xufeng Zhang
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Core Expertise: Device physics and engineering for quantum and hybrid magnonics
Project Areas: Smart Sensing, AI and Next Generation Computing Hardware, AI and Digital Twin for Advanced Manufacturing, Quantum and Photonics
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Hongli (Julie) Zhu
Associate Professor, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Core Expertise: All solid state batteries; Flow Batteries; Batteries fast charge; High energy density batteries; Advanced manufacturing; Sustainable biomass-derived material from Nature; Bendable, implantable, and biocompatible electronics; Investigations of sustainable biomaterial, like cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin, materials-structure-performance-application correlations.
Project Areas: Biomedical Devices & Microsystems, AI and Digital Twin for Advanced Manufacturing
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