Three faculty members whose work symbolizes Northeastern’s commitment to translational research have been granted tenure by the Board of Trustees.
Assistant professor Jessica Blom-Hoffman of counseling and applied educational psychology, in Bouvé College of Health Sciences, assistant professor Rupal Patel in speech-language pathology, also in Bouvé, and associate professor Ravi Sundaram, in the College of Computer and Information Science, joined the university’s roster of distinguished tenured faculty.
Blom-Hoffman, who holds a Ph.D. from Lehigh University, specializes in school-based prevention of childhood overweight. She is the principal investigator of a National Institutes of Health-funded research project to explore ways to promote fruit and vegetable consumption among elementary school students attending Boston public schools.
Patel, whose Ph.D. is from the University of Toronto, founded and directs the Communication Analysis and Design Laboratory. It conducts research along two main themes: analysis of spoken communication, and the design, development and assessment of novel assistive human-machine interfaces.
Sundaram, with a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, focuses on networks and algorithms, specifically network performance and approximation algorithms for the design and efficient utilization of networks.
The three join the latest class of faculty tenured and promoted in board decisions last year:
Murray Forman, communication studies, College of Arts and Sciences.
Cynthia Jackson, accounting, College of Business Administration.
Timothy Love, School of Architecture, College of Arts and Sciences.
Andrew Rohm, marketing, College of Business Administration.
Olin Shivers, College of Computer and Information Science.
Mark Williams, physics, College of Arts and Sciences.
Kathrin Zippel, sociology and anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences.
Six faculty members were hired last fall with tenure. They are:
James Dana, economics, College of Arts and Sciences, jointly appointed with the College of Business Administration.
Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, English, College of Arts and Sciences.
Craig Ferris, psychology, College of Arts and Sciences.
Lev Perelman, physics, College of Arts and Sciences, jointly appointed with the College of Engineering.
David Luzzi, dean of the College of Engineering.
Arnold Wright, accounting, College of Business Administration.
The Voice will profile each newly tenured professor in an upcoming series of stories.