Faculty Voices
I have had so many great experiences with ADVANCE. I received a lot of good advice which really helped me boost my confidence, and ultimately helped me with a publication. While taking part in the Essential Conversations training, I learned how to facilitate deep and sometimes difficult conversations. This was really important to me because I didn’t think I could do it before.
Associate Teaching Professor
College of Professional Studies
Since my very first days at Northeastern, I have been actively engaged with the ADVANCE Office and its mission to support mentorship and inclusive leadership across the university. These early connections helped me build a strong foundation for navigating academia and contributing meaningfully to our community. Over the years, I’ve had the privilege of participating in several ADVANCE and university-sponsored leadership development programs, including the NU Research Leadership Development Initiative (ReDI, May 2025) and COE EMPOWER (Dec 2024). These experiences have significantly shaped my growth as a scholar, mentor, and leader. In recent years.
Associate Professor
College of Engineering
The ADVANCE office programs have done so much to help elevate and nourish my teaching and writing practices. Their most impactful program was the writing groups. This really helped me in my early development to put myself to test, to remain energized and accountable, and to advance my goals. It also helped me with my inter-disciplinary and critical thinking skills. I am ever so grateful for the community and the work of ADVANCE.
Teaching Professor
College of Professional Studies
Being able to participate in seminars with other people on the tenure track at different stages of the tenure track within the bubble was amazing for me, not only in navigating how to be a faculty member, but also navigating the institution and learning different things and different resources.
Associate Professor
Bouvé College of Health Science
STRIDE workshops completely changed how I approached hiring. Instead of relying on gut feelings and subconscious impressions, I learnt to use systematic evaluation rubrics. It revealed biases that I didn’t know I had, like being subconsciously influenced by someone’s undergraduate institution. Now I always used rubric based approaches on all my searches, and it has made our hiring approvable and effective.
Interim Dean
College of Arts, Media and Design
Northeastern prides itself on being an inter-disciplinary university and the ADVANCE Office has been really critical at creating the infrastructure that allows for multi-disciplinary collaboration.
Assistant Professor
College of Arts, Media and Design
Faculty Success
- Fei and Kirda Elevated to IEEE Fellows
ECE Professor Yunsi Fei and Khoury/ECE Professor Engin Kirda were elevated to IEEE Fellows. Fei was recognized for contributions in side-channel analysis, protection of computing accelerators, and robust security evaluation,… - Computer vision expert Lorenzo Torresani named Joseph E. Aoun Professor
As the recently named Joseph E. Aoun Chair, Lorenzo Torresani is designing a new lab at Northeastern University centered on perceptual AI. Former Meta research director Lorenzo Torresani aims to… - Professor Clareese Hill Receives Innovation Grant
Professor Clareese Hill has received a Mills Institute Innovation Lab Grant for her project “The Practice-based Artistic Archive: Unearthing Early Black Stories in New England.” For this project, Clareese Hill… - Professor Alan Zaremba’s New Book Published by Kendall Hunt
Associate Professor of Communication Studies Alan Zaremba’s new book Sports Ethics: Challenges for Athletes and Management was published by Kendall Hunt. Publishing house Kendall Hunt Publishing Company writes, “Sports Ethics:…