Lab Director
Professor Babak Heydari
Current Appointments
Associate Professor, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Affiliated Faculty, Network Science Institute
Affiliate Faculty, School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs
Co-Director, Engineering Management Program
Contact Information:
Email: heydari@northeastern.edu
Office Location: 275 Snell Engineering Center, Northeastern University, Boston, MA
If you are interested in collaborating with our lab, please visit here.
EDUCATION
University of California, Berkeley
PhD in Electrical Engineering
PhD Minor in Economics and Management
University of California, Berkeley
Masters of Science Electrical Engineering
Haas School of Business
Graduate Certificate of Management of Technology
Sharif University of Technology
BSc. in Electrical Engineering and Chemistry
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS and RECOGNITIONS
Chair, Council of Engineering Systems Universities (CESUN).
Associate Editor, Wiley Systems Engineering Journal, and ASME Journal of Mechanical Design.
Chair of Scientific Advisory Committee, Singapore-ETH Future Resilient Systems.
Co-Director of Engineering Management Program at Northeastern University
National Science Foundation CAREER AWARD 2016
Best Paper of the Systems Engineering Journal 2018
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Intelligent Sociotechnical Systems
Design and Governance of Complex Systems
Network Science
Multi-Agent Systems
Computational Social Science
Engineering Management
Multi-Sided Platforms
TEACHING
Recent Courses
Economic Decision Making (Graduate)
Platforms and Sharing Economy Systems (Graduate, also approved for MBA students)
Past Teaching
Game Theory and Networks (Undergraduate)
Multi-Agent Systems (Graduate)
Cognitive Systems Seminar (Graduate)