The following is a partial list of Purdue University faculty , including current, former, emeritus Purdue University .
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Notable faculty
Agriculture
Engineering and technology
Rakesh Agrawal (Professor of Chemical Engineering ) – a winner of National Medal of Technology Arden L. Bement Jr. (Professor of Nuclear Engineering ) – Director of the National Science Foundation , former Director of NIST Lonnie D. Bentley – professor of computer and information technologySabine Brunswicker – associate professor and director of Research Center for Open Digital Innovation (RCODI)Jean-Lou Chameau (Professor of Civil Engineering) – President of California Institute of Technology Clarence L. "Ben" Coates (Head of the School of Electrical Engineering) – computer scientist and engineer known for his work on waveform recognition devices, circuit gates and accumulatorsSupriyo Datta (Professor of Electrical Engineering) – researcher of nanoelectronicsRui de Figueiredo (Professor of Electrical Engineering)Charles Alton Ellis (Professor of Structural Engineering) – designer of the Golden Gate Bridge Reginald Fessenden (Professor of Electrical Engineering ) – first wireless voice transmissionW. Kent Fuchs (Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering) – Provost of Cornell University R. Edwin Garcia (Professor of Materials Engineering ) - researcher and authorLeslie Geddes (Showalter Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biomedical Engineering) – National Medal of Technology recipientFrank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr. (lecturer) – industrial engineerLillian Gilbreth (Professor of Industrial Engineering ) – efficiency expert , first female member of U.S. National Academy of Engineering F.W. Hutchinson – engineer and researcher of heating, ventilation, and air conditioningKathleen Howell - astrodynamist known for deep space spacecraft mission design using halo orbitsFrank P. Incropera (Professor of Mechanical Engineering) – ISI highly cited researcher on heat transferLeah Jamieson (Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Dean of Engineering) – a winner of Gordon Prize Avinash Kak (Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering) – researcher of information processingRangasami L. Kashyap (Professor of Electrical Engineering) – applied mathematicianLinda Katehi (Professor of Electrical Engineering and Dean of Engineering) – Chancellor of University of California, Davis Ronald Latanision , Neil Armstrong Distinguished Visiting professorDaniel B. Luten (Instructor in architectural and sanitary engineering) – bridge builder who patented the Luten arch Robert E. Machol (Professor of Electrical Engineering) – early writer on systems engineering Shimon Y. Nof (Professor of Industrial Engineering)Nicholas A. Peppas (Professor of Chemical Engineering) – biochemist and engineer best known for his research in hydrogels for drug deliveryR. Byron Pipes (Professor of Engineering) – former President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute A. Alan Pritsker (Professor of Industrial Engineering ) – pioneer in simulation modeling, creator of GERT and SLAM programsVladimir Shalaev (Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and of Biomedical Engineering) – researcher of metamaterials, transformation optics, nanophotonics and plasmonicsR. Norris Shreve (Professor of Chemical Engineering)Shu Shien-Siu (Professor of Engineering Science)Mete Sozen (Professor of Structural Engineering)Rusi Taleyarkhan (Professor of Nuclear Engineering )Yeram S. Touloukian (Professor of Mechanical Engineering) – founder of the Thermophysical Properties Research CenterRaymond Viskanta – ISI Highly Cited researcher in the field of heat transferSteve Wereley (Professor of Mechanical Engineering) – co-inventor of micro-particle image velocimetry Jerry Woodall (Professor of Electrical Engineering) – inventor of first commercially viable red LEDs, a winner of National Medal of Technology Henry T. Yang (Professor of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering and Dean of Engineering) – Chancellor of the University of California, Santa Barbara John W. Sutherland (Professor and Fehsenfeld Family Head of Environmental and Ecological Engineering (EEE))Humanities and social sciences
Dorsey Armstrong – editor-in-chief of Arthuriana Louis René Beres – Professor of Political Science James A. Berlin – theorist in the field of composition studies and the history of rhetoric and composition theoryMarianne Boruch – poet and essayistRobert X. Browning – Professor of Political ScienceRonald Verlin Cassill – novelist, short story writer, reviewer, editor, painter, and lithographerPhilip B. Coulter – political scientistPaul Draper – philosopher of religion, editor of the journal Philo William H. Gass – novelist and short story writerRoxane Gay – writer and editorMark Harris – novelist and biographerDjelal Kadir – literature academicBrigit Pegeen Kelly – poetEmma Montgomery McRae – Professor of Literature, Dean of WomenRobert Melson – political scientist specializing in ethnic conflict and genocideCheryl Mendelson – professor of philosophy, novelist, non-fiction writerAlan H. Monroe – creator of Monroe's motivated sequence Annie Smith Peck – professor of archaeology and Latin, mountaineerVictor Raskin – Professor of Linguistics, founding editor of Humor: International Journal of Humor Research W. Charles Redding – professor of communication, "father" of organizational communicationGunther E. Rothenberg – military historianKermit Scott – professor of philosophy, advocate for the poor, previously thought to be the namesake of Kermit the FrogMichael Stohl – political scientistManagement and economics
Pharmacy, health and human sciences
Science and mathematics
Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar – Professor of Mathematics , known for his contributions to singularity theory Ross H. Arnett, Jr. – entomologist and beetle researcherStruther Arnott – molecular biologist and cancer researcherMikhail Atallah – computer scientist, researcher on algorithms and computer securityLouis Auslander – mathematicianDavid Avison – physicist and photographerJohn D. Axtell – chemist, agronomist, a discoverer of high-lysine sorghumHarry Beevers – plant physiologistJeffrey Bennetzen – Professor of Genetics Elisa Bertino – computer scientist, director of CERIAS Dale L. Boger – medicinal and organic chemistCarl R. de Boor – assistant professor at Purdue University , won the John von Neumann Prize from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 1996Louis de Branges de Bourcia – Professor of Mathematics , proved the Bieberbach conjecture Herbert C. Brown – Nobel Laureate in Chemistry in 1979Alok R. Chaturvedi – professor in the Department of Computer Sciences; the Director of Purdue Homeland Security Institute ; technical lead for the Sentient World Simulation projectDouglas Comer – computer scientist, Internet pioneerR. Graham Cooks – chemist, mass spectrometristRonald DeVore – mathematician known for approximation theory, wavelet theory, compressive sensingRichard Duffin – physicistAhmed K. Elmagarmid – computer scientist, Executive Director of the Qatar Computing Research InstitutePaul Erdős – Professor of Mathematics , winner of the Wolf Prize in Mathematics in 1983/4Ephraim Fischbach – physicist known for research on the fifth force Harley Flanders – mathematician and textbook authorJoseph Francisco – atmospheric chemist, President of the American Chemical SocietyWalter Gautschi – mathematician, contributor to numerical analysisJayanta Kumar Ghosh – statistician Melvin Hochster – commutative algebraistOtto F. Hunziker – early head of Dairy department, supervised construction of Smith HallMeyer Jerison – mathematician known for his work in functional analysis and ringsMinhyong Kim – mathematicianRobert R. Korfhage – computer scientist who contributed to information retrieval Karl Lark-Horovitz – pioneer in solid state physics, contributed to the invention of the first transistorChris J. Leaver – botanist, now at the University of OxfordLászló Lempert , professor of mathematics, winner of Stefan Bergman Prize, 2001Jingjing Liang , associate professor of forest ecologyBernard J. Liska – food scientist Sergey Macheret – physicist and aerospace engineerFred McLafferty – chemist who described the McLafferty rearrangement in mass spectrometryEdwin T. Mertz – chemist and biochemist who co-discovered high-lysine cornDan Milisavljevic - astronomer and physicistDavid S. Moore – statisticianJohn Ulric Nef – chemist who discovered the Nef reaction Ei-ichi Negishi – Professor of Chemistry, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry in 2010Albert Overhauser – Professor of Physics , discovered the Overhauser Effect Alan Perlis – Professor of Mathematics , the first person to win the Turing Award in 1966Justin Jesse Price – mathematicianJohn R. Rice – Professor of Computer Science, founding editor of ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software Arthur Rosenthal – mathematician, proved the Hartogs–Rosenthal theorem Michael G. Rossmann – Professor of Biological Sciences , Member of National Academy of Sciences, mapped human common cold virus, pointed out the Rossmann fold Robert G. Sachs – theoretical physicist, director of Argonne National LaboratoryDavid Sanders – Professor of Biological SciencesOtto Schilling – algebraistJulian Schwinger – Nobel Laureate in Physics in 1965Freydoon Shahidi – mathematician, a namesake of the Langlands–Shahidi method Shen Chun-shan – physicist, president of National Tsing Hua UniversityYum-Tong Siu – professor of mathematicsJeffrey H. Smith – algebraic topologistEugene Spafford – Professor of Computer Science and Director of CERIAS, computer security expertLonnie Lee VanZandt – Professor of Physics , formed the molecular biological physics group at PurdueJeffrey Vitter (Professor of Computer Science and Dean of Science, 2002–2008) – computer scientist known for his work on external memory algorithms, provost of University of Kansas Clarence Abiathar Waldo – Professor of Mathematics , noted for his role in defeating the Indiana Pi Bill of 1897George W. Whitehead – algebraic topologist who defined the J-homomorphism Harvey Washington Wiley – Professor of Chemistry, first FDA commissioner and advocate for the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906Arthur Winfree – theoretical biologist, MacArthur Fellow, winner of the Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied MathematicsMyron E. Witham – Professor of Mathematics, college football coachArif Zaman – Professor of Statistics, researcher of pseudo-random number generation and computer scienceJian-Kang Zhu - Distinguished Professor of Plant BiologyOther
Richard Blanton – anthropologist and archaeologistDavid A. Caputo – former Dean of the School of Liberal Arts, later president of Pace University Amelia Earhart – women's career counselor, aviator Joel Fink – Purdue University Theatre, currently Associate Dean of Roosevelt University Benjamin Harrison – trustee, President of the United States Ruth Lawanson – volleyball assistant coach, Olympic bronze medal in volleyball (1992).Charles Major – trustee, novelistGary Lee Nelson – composerJay Nunamaker – researcher of information systemsLynn Okagaki – Commissioner of the National Center for Education ResearchJohn Purdue – founder and namesakeTimothy Sands – provost, former acting president, materials engineer, President of Virginia Tech Mark Smith – Dean of Graduate School, 1984 Olympic fencer.Dorothy C. Stratton – first full-time dean of women (1933–1942), Director of the SPARS during World War II Lee Watson – Broadway and television lighting designerRandy Woodson – former provost, now chancellor of North Carolina State University Al G. Wright – former Director of Bands, now Chairman of the Board of the John Philip Sousa Foundation Rolv Yttrehus – contemporary classical music composerReferences
"R. Edwin García" . IEEE Xplore . IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Retrieved 7 June 2023."The Charles Major Papers" . Retrieved September 15, 2014.Lauren, Westberg (July 28, 2012). "Olympic fencer teaches students, reflects on games" . Purdue Exponent . Retrieved July 28, 2012.
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