Meet Our Team
Mansoor M. Amiji
Distinguished Professor Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
School of Pharmacy
Dr. Mansoor Amiji is a University Distinguished Professor, Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Professor of Chemical Engineering at Northeastern University in Boston, MA. He is also the Director of the Laboratory for Biomaterials and Advanced Nano-Delivery Systems (BANDS).
Dr. Amiji is also the Editor for Americas for the journal Drug Delivery and Translational Research (DDTR), an official journal of the Controlled Release Society, published by Springer Nature.
Ioannis A. Kakadiaris
Professor Ioannis A. Kakadiaris, Ph.D. is a Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen University Professor of Computer Science, Electrical & Computer Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA. He joined UH in August 1997 after a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania. He earned his B.Sc. in Physics at the University of Athens in Greece, his M.Sc. in Computer Science from Northeastern University and his Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also the founder and director of the Computational Biomedicine Lab. His research interests include biometrics, computer vision, and pattern recognition, biomedical image analysis and cardiovascular informatics.
Nikos Passas
Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice; Co-Director, Institute for Security and Public Policy
Professor Nikos Passas specializes in the study of corruption, illicit financial/trade flows, sanctions, informal fund transfers, remittances, terrorism, white-collar crime, financial regulation, organized crime and international crimes. He has published more than 230 articles, book chapters, reports and books in 15 languages. He is the Principal Investigator for a planning grant on Financial Network Disruptions in Illicit and Counterfeit Medicines Trade (FIND-M) funded by the National Science Foundation. His other current projects focus on institutional corruption, anti-corruption academic institutions, trade-facilitated crime, serious crimes in the context of COVID-19, criminological theory and white-collar crime, and corruption, debt and crisis in Greece.
Ravi Sundaram
Professor
Ravi Sundaram joined Khoury College of Computer Sciences in 2003 after working as director of engineering at Akamai Technologies, where he played a critical role in the buildout of the world’s leading content delivery network. There he established the mapping group responsible for directing over 10 billion browser requests per day to the optimal Akamai server.
Sundaram is primarily interested in network performance and approximation algorithms for the design and efficient utilization of networks. He enjoys devising efficient schemes for improving the performance of network-based applications and validating their use through innovative systems implementations. He is also interested in network security and game theoretic aspects of network usage. He has previously worked in complexity theory and combinatorics.
Muhammad Zaman
Muhammad Zaman is a Professor in the College of Engineering and the principal investigator of the Laboratory for Molecular & Cellular Dynamics at Boston University and a Faculty Fellow of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. He holds a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Chicago and was a Herman and Margaret Sokol Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in cancer research at MIT. He has been a recipient of the FEBS outstanding Young Investigator Award and was most recently awarded the Regents Teaching Award, the highest teaching award across the entire University of Texas System of Institutions. Professor Zaman joined BU from UT Austin in fall 2009.