Following is a partial list of notable faculty (either past, present or visiting) of New York University. As of 2014, among NYU's past and present faculty, there are at least 159 Guggenheim Fellows, over 7 Lasker Award winners, and more than 200 are currently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Nobel laureates

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Members of the National Academy of Sciences

• Marsha Berger, professor at Courant • George Bugliarello, professor at Tandon School of Engineering • Jeff Cheeger, professor at Courant • Gloria M. Coruzzi, professor at Biology • Percy Deift, professor at Courant • Claude Desplan, professor at Biology • Paul M. Doty, professor at Tandon School of Engineering • Leslie Greengard, professor at Courant, Tandon School of Engineering • Mikhael Gromov, professor at Courant • David Harker, professor at Tandon School of Engineering • Peter Lax, professor at Courant • Andrew Majda, professor at Courant • Rudolph Marcus, professor at Tandon School of Engineering • Henry McKean, professor at Courant • David McLaughlin, professor at Courant, Tandon School of Engineering • Cathleen Morawetz, professor at Courant • Elliott Waters Montroll, professor at Tandon School of Engineering • Charles Newman, professor at Courant • Louis Nirenberg, professor at Courant • Charles Peskin, professor at Courant • K. R. Sreenivasan, professor at Courant, Tandon School of Engineering • S.R. Srinivasa Varadhan, professor at Courant • Margaret Wright, professor at Courant

Members of the National Academy of Engineering

• Henrik Ager-Hanssen, professor at Tandon School of Engineering. • Marsha Berger, professor at Courant • George Bugliarello, professor at Tandon School of Engineering • Antonio Ferri, professor at Tandon School of Engineering. • Leslie Greengard, professor at Courant, Tandon School of Engineering • Nicholas J. Hoff, professor at Tandon School of Engineering • Paul Horn (computer scientist), professor at Courant, Tandon School of Engineering • Nathan Marcuvitz, professor at Tandon School of Engineering • Tsuneo Nakahara, professor at Tandon School of Engineering • K. R. Sreenivasan, professor at Courant, Tandon School of Engineering • Jerome Swartz, professor at Tandon School of Engineering • Ernst Weber (engineer), professor at Tandon School of Engineering. He was the first president of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and one of the founders of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE). • Jack Wolf, professor at Tandon School of Engineering • Margaret Wright, professor at Courant • Dante C. Youla, professor at Tandon School of Engineering

Guggenheim Fellows

• Simeon M. Berman, professor at Courant • Sylvain Cappell, professor at Courant • Steve Childress, professor at Courant • Richard J. Cole, professor at Courant • Cathleen Morawetz, professor at Courant • Charles Newman, professor at Courant • Louis Nirenberg, professor at Courant • Lyle Ashton Harris, professor at Steinhardt • Sue de Beer, professor at Steinhardt • Anna Deavere Smith, professor at Tisch • Kathleen Gerson, professor at College of Arts and Science • Deborah Landau professor at College of Arts and Science • Amanda Petrusich, professor at Gallatin School of Individualized Study • Troy Duster, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science • Debraj Ray, professor at College School of Arts and Science • Irwin Unger, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science, won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1965 • Andrew Ross (sociologist), professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science • Christopher Wood, professor at Graduate School of Arts and Science

MacArthur Fellows

Rhodes Scholars

National Medals for Science, Technology and Innovation, Arts and Humanities recipients

Abel Prize recipients

College of Arts and Science (undergraduate and graduate)

• James McBride (writer), recipient of the 2013 National Book Award for fiction for his novel The Good Lord Bird. • Dan Fagin (science journalist), recipient of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for his book Toms River. • David G. Grier, American physicist, best known for his work on the tractor beam. • Leonard Gale, chemist who helped Samuel Morse develop the electromagnetic telegraph • Kirsten Johnson • Lawrence Amos McLouth, Professor of Germanic Studies • Jane M. Carlton, Professor of Biology, recipient of the 2010 Stoll-Stunkard Memorial Lectureship Award, 2012 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science • Joel Westheimer, professor of citizenship education at the University of Ottawa

Tandon School of Engineering (formerly Polytechnic School of Engineering)

• Erwin Lutwak, mathematician • Heinrich Guggenheimer, mathematician • Stephen Arnold, physicist, helped create the interdisciplinary field of Microsphere Photonics, an optical biosensor sensitive enough to detect unlabeled molecules such as protein molecules and strands of DNA. • H. Johnathan Chao, patented the first integrated circuit chip that demonstrates the feasibility of SONET/ATM networks, allowing large volumes of information–audio, date, image and video–to transmit at high speeds. • Boris Aronov, computer scientist, Sloan Research Fellow • Bruce Garetz, invented (with former Polytechnic professor and current MIT professor Allan Myerson ) a method for using laser light to control the arrangement of molecules in a crystal. • Dan Bailey, physicist, fly-shop owner, innovative fly developer • Barouh Berkovits – invented the cardiac defibrillator and artificial cardiac pacemaker • George Bugliarello – Chairman of the Board of Science and Technology for International Development of the National Academy of Sciences; of the National Medal of Technology Nomination Evaluation Committee; and of the National Academy of Engineering Council's International Affairs Committee • Charles Camarda, American engineer and a NASA astronaut • Kalle Levon, invented an electro-chemical method to identify bacteria. • Ju-Chin Chu – Chemical engineer and father of Steven Chu. He became an Academia Sinica member in 1964. • Edwin F. Church – namesake of Edwin F. Church Medal • John Colagioia – creator of programming language Thue • Edward Weil, discovered a new family of chemicals that inhibit corrosion and could be used in protective coatings. Invented and developed many flame retardants for textiles, polymers, foams, agricultural chemicals, plasticizers and other polymer additives. Also invented and developed numerous agricultural chemicals, polymer additives, and manufacturing processes. Holder of over 200 patents. • Francis Crick – co-discoverer of DNA structure; awarded Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine • Paul M. Doty – emeritus Harvard Mallinckrodt Professor of Biochemistry; specialized in the physical properties of macromolecules; involved in peace and security policy issues • R. Luke DuBois – composer, performer, conceptual new media artist, programmer, record producer, pedagogue • Paul Peter Ewald – inventor of X-ray diffraction method for determination of molecular structure; Physics Department chair until 1957 • Leopold B. Felsen, physicist • Zivan Zabar, developed a computer code for Con Edison that helped restart the electronic network after a 1983 blackout; the program was again used after 9/11 to restore power in lower Manhattan. • Antonio Ferri – leader of a team that created the first practical hypersonic tunnel heater, used to heat air for discharge into a wind tunnel • R. M. Foster – Bell Labs mathematician whose work was of significance regarding electronic filters for use on telephone lines. • Herbert Freeman, computer scientist • Eugene D. Genovese – historian of the American South and slavery • Gordon Gould – former Polytechnic professor; inventor of the laser • David and Gregory Chudnovsky – mathematicians who held the record for number of digits of pi in 1989; now run the Institute for Mathematics and Advanced Supercomputing at Polytechnic • Leslie Greengard, mathematician, physician and computer scientist. He is co-inventor of the fast multipole method in 1987. • S. L. Greitzer – mathematician; founding chairman of the US Mathematical Olympiad; publisher of the pre-college mathematics journal Arbelos • Charles William Hanko – historian and politician • David Harker – physicist; X-ray crystallographer; discoverer of the Donnay–Harker law and Harker–Kasper inequalities • Paul Horn (computer scientist) • Jerry MacArthur Hultin, former United States Under Secretary of the Navy • Katherine Isbister, game and human computer interaction researcher and designer • Myles Jackson, Albert Gallatin Research Excellence Professor of the History of Science • Andrew Kalotay, finance professor, Wall Street quant and chess master. • Maurice Karnaugh – inventor of Karnaugh maps (K-maps) while at Bell Labs; professor at the Westchester campus 1980–1999; retired • Edward Kimbark – power engineer • Parke Kolbe, author • Joseph Wood Krutch – writer, critic, and naturalist • Erich E. Kunhardt, physicist • Yann LeCun, computer scientist. • Paul Levinson – author of The Plot To Save Socrates; media commentator on The O'Reilly Factor; Visiting Professor at the Philosophy and Technology Study Center at Polytechnic, 1987–1988 • Frederick B. Llewellyn – electrical engineer • Rudolph Marcus – former Polytechnic professor. Wolf Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Chemistry and National Medal of Science winner. • Nathan Marcuvitz – electrical engineering pioneer • Herman F. Mark – founder of the Polymer Research Institute; National Medal of Science winner. • Phil Maymin – Assistant Professor of Finance and Risk Engineering; Libertarian Party House candidate in Connecticut • Warren L. McCabe – American chemical engineer and is considered as one of the founding fathers of the profession of chemical engineering • David Miller (Canadian politician), served as an advisor on urban issues at the World Bank. He also served as the 63rd Mayor of Toronto. • Elliott Waters Montroll – scientist and mathematician • Samuel Morse – co-inventor of the Morse code; contributor to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs • James H. Mulligan Jr. – namesake of IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal • Tsuneo Nakahara, communications engineer • Donald Othmer – co-author of Kirk–Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology; inventor of the Othmer Still, a laboratory device for vapor-liquid equilibrium measurements • Charles G. Overberger, American chemist • Athanasios Papoulis – pioneer in the field of stochastic processes • Leonard Peikoff – former philosophy professor; founder of the Ayn Rand Institute • David J. Pine, American physicist. • John R. Ragazzini, electrical engineer • Theodore Rappaport, electrical engineer • John Howard Raymond, philosopher • Hans Reissner – German aeronautical engineer • Murray Rothbard – former economics professor; key figure in libertarian movement • Michael Shelley – Professor of Mechanical Engineering • Samuel Sheldon – IEEE president • Joshua W. Sill – Professor of Mathematics; became the youngest General in the Civil War; namesake of Fort Sill • Aleksandra Smiljanić, Minister of Telecommunications and Information Technologies in the Government of Serbia • Joel B. Snyder – IEEE president • K. R. Sreenivasan, engineer whose research includes physics and applied mathematics. • Torsten Suel – pioneer of search engine algorithms • Jerome Swartz – developed early optical strategies for barcode scanning technologies • Nassim Nicholas Taleb – epistemologist author of The Black Swan; works in the risk engineering department • James Tenney – composer; music theorist • Julian Togelius – AI and Games researcher • John G. Truxal, American control theorist • Ernst Weber – founder of the Microwave Research Institute; first IEEE President; National Medal of Science winner. • Jack Keil Wolf – researcher in information theory and coding theory • Ta-You Wu – nuclear physicist; President of Academia Sinica • Dante C. Youla – namesake of Youla–Kucera parametrization in control theory • Louis Zukofsky – second-generation American modernist poet • David Lefer, journalist and author • Beth Simone Noveck, United States deputy chief technology officer for open government • Nicholas J. Hoff, award-winning engineer specializing in aeronautics and astronautics. His calculations became the international guideposts in aircraft design. • Henrik Ager-Hanssen, Norwegian nuclear physicist • Nikhil Gupta (scientist) • Mark M. Green, chemist • Steven E. Koonin, theoretical physicist, former faculty and provost of California Institute of Technology • Richard W. Rahn, economist • Harlan K. Ullman, principal author of the doctrine of "shock and awe" • Sal Restivo, sociologist/anthropologist. Founding director of the Ph.D. program in Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. • Nasir Memon, computer scientist, IEEE Fellow. • Jim McDonald (electrical engineer), Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Strathclyde. • Carl Neuberg, early pioneer in biochemistry, and he is often referred to as the "father of modern biochemistry". • Raymond E. Kirk, editor, with Othmer, of the industry-standard Kirk–Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology. • Leonard Bergstein, inventor of the concept of the zoom lens. • Seymour Lipschutz, mathematician • Maurizio Porfiri, Italian electrical engineer, noted for his work with robotic fish. • Ramesh Karri, researcher specializing in trustworthy hardware, high assurance nanoscale integrated circuits, architectures and systems. He and his students at NYU Tandon School of Engineering generated the first research on attack-resilient chip architecture, presented the first research paper on split manufacturing, a means of thwarting counterfeiting by an untrusted foundry by dividing a chip's blueprint into several components and distributing each to a different fabricator, and won numerous best-paper awards from ACM, USENIX, and the IEEE, among others. • Tony Rothman, American theoretical physicist. • David Goodman (electrical engineer), introduced the first practical application of a wireless infostation that can communicate information to and from a PDA or notebook computer. • Justin Cappos, computer scientist • Isidor Fankuchen, an international authority on X-ray diffraction.

Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences

This is a small selection of Courant's famous faculty over the years and a few of their distinctions: • Gérard Ben Arous, Davidson Prize • Marsha Berger, NASA Software of the Year, National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Sciences • Fedor Bogomolov • Richard Bonneau • Luis Caffarelli, Wolf Prize • Sylvain Cappell, Guggenheim Fellowship • Sourav Chatterjee, Davidson Prize • Jeff Cheeger, Veblen Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, Max Planck Research Prize • Steven Childress, Guggenheim Fellowship, American Physical Society Fellow • Adrian Constantin, Romanian-Austrian mathematician, Wittgenstein Award • Demetrios Christodoulou, 1993 MacArthur Fellow • Richard J. Cole, Guggenheim Fellowship • Martin Davis, Steele Prize • Percy Deift, George Pólya Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Science • Robert Dewar, IFIP WG 2.1 member, chairperson 1978–1983; Courant Institute associate director 1994–1997, GNAT cocreator, AdaCore cofounder, president, CEO • Kurt O. Friedrichs, 1976 National Medal of Science • Paul Garabedian, NAS Prize in Applied Mathematics, National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Science • Leslie Greengard, Steele Prize, Packard Foundation Fellowship, NSF Presidential Young Investigator, National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Sciences • Mikhail Gromov, 2009 Abel Prize, Wolf Prize, Steele Prize, Kyoto Prize, Balzan Prize, • Larry Guth • Helmut Hofer, Ostrowski Prize, National Academy of Sciences • Fritz John, 1984 MacArthur Fellow • Joseph B. Keller, 1988 National Medal of Science, Wolf Prize • Michel Kervaire • Subhash Khot, 2010 Alan T. Waterman Award • Morris Kline • Peter Lax, Abel Prize winner, 1986 National Medal of Science, Steele Prize, Wolf Prize, Norbert Wiener Prize • Lin Fanghua, Bôcher Memorial Prize, American Academy of Arts and Science • Wilhelm Magnus • Andrew Majda, NAS Prize in Applied Mathematics, John von Neumann Prize (SIAM) • Henry McKean, National Academy of Science, American Academy of Arts and Science • David W. McLaughlin, National Academy of Science, American Academy of Arts and Science • Bud Mishra, Association for Computing Machinery Fellow • Cathleen Synge Morawetz, 1998 National Medal of Science, Steele Prize, Birkhoff Prize, Noether Lecturer, National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Science • Jürgen Moser, Wolf Prize, James Craig Watson Medal • Assaf Naor, European Mathematical Society Prize, Packard Fellowship, Salem Prize, Bôcher Memorial Prize, Blavatnik Award • Charles Newman, National Academy of Science, American Academy of Arts and Science • Louis Nirenberg, 1995 Crafoord Prize, National Medal of Science, Steele Prize, Bôcher Memorial Prize, Chern Medal, National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Science • Amnon Pazy (1936–2006), Israeli mathematician; President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem • Charles S. Peskin, 1983 MacArthur Fellow, Birkhoff Prize, National Medal of Science • Amir Pnueli, National Academy of Engineering, Israel Prize, Turing Award, Association for Computing Machinery Fellow • Peter Sarnak • Jack Schwartz, developed the programming language SETL at NYU • Michael J. Shelley, American Physical Society Fellow, François Naftali Frenkiel Award (APS) • Victor Shoup, with Ronald Cramer developed the Cramer–Shoup cryptosystem • Jonathan Sondow • Joel Spencer • K. R. Sreenivasan • S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan, Abel Prize winner, Steele Prize, National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Science, Fellow of the Royal Society, National Medal of Science • Daniel Stein, Fellow of the American Physical Society, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science • Akshay Venkatesh, Salem Prize, Packard Fellowship • Olof B. Widlund • Margaret H. Wright, National Academy of Science, National Academy of Engineering • Lai-Sang Young, Satter Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, American Academy of Arts and Science

Stern School of Business

Tisch School of the Arts

Gallatin School of Individualized Study

Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

• Richard Arum, sociologist of education • Roscoe Brown, education professor, one of the Tuskegee Airmen • Meg Bussert, actress, singer, music theatre professor • Eduardus Halim, pianist, professor, inaugural holder of the Sascha Gorodnitzki Chair in Piano Studies at NYU • Martha Hill, dance instructor and director of NYU's Dance Education program • James Weldon Johnson, author, civil rights activist, educator, lawyer, songwriter, diplomat • Frank Kimbrough, jazz pianist • sj Miller, Deputy Director of Educational Equity • Marion Nestle, Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition and Food Studies, author, blogger • Fabio Parasecoli, director of the Food Studies PhD Program • Neil Postman, education reformer, humanist, social visionary, author, media critic, and creator of the NYU's Department of Media Ecology • Diane Ravitch, historian of education, educational policy analyst, research professor, and former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education • Ron Robin (born 1951), Israeli historian and President of the University of Haifa • Louise Rosenblatt, author of Literature as Exploration, noted scholar on the teaching of literature, and director of NYU's doctoral program in English Education • John Scofield, jazz-rock guitarist and composer • Jacob Weinberg, pianist and composer • Hale Woodruff, printmaker, muralist, draftsman, painter • Stefaan Verhulst, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU. Senior Associated Fellow in the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy at Oxford University

Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service

• Alan Altshuler, Massachusetts Secretary of Transportation (1972–75) • Doug Band • Jorge Castañeda • Dalton Conley • Harold Ford Jr. • Gara LaMarche • Jacob Lew • Timothy Naftali • Jonathan Morduch • Robert Shrum

School of Law

NYU Law has the second highest number of faculty who are members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences with 19 inductees, behind only Harvard. Notable professors include:

Grossman School of Medicine

• Martin J. Blaser, Frederick H. King Professor of Internal Medicine, Chairman, Department of Medicine, and Professor of Microbiology • Jason Walter Brown, neurologist and medical writer • Matthew Chervenak, President and CEO of General Biologic company • Enrico Fazzini, D.O., Professor of Neurology and expert on Parkinson's disease • Steven Flanagan, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine • William L. Goldberg, Assistant Professor and Assistant Director of Emergency Medicine, and published author • Anna Goldfeder, Director of the Cancer and Radiobiology Research Laboratory • Ruben Kuzniecky, Professor of Neurology • Rodolfo Llinas, Professor of Physiology & Neuroscience • Oliver Sacks, Professor of Neurology and author • John E. Sarno, Professor of Clinical Rehabilitation Medicine • Homer Smith (1895–1962), Professor and director of the Physiology Laboratories at NYU • Joseph D. Zuckerman, surgeon-in-chief of the Hospital for Joint Diseases of NYU Langone Medical Center

Silver School of Social Work

Notable faculty include:

NYU Abu Dhabi

Notable faculty include: • Kwame Anthony Appiah, Professor of Philosophy and Law • Thomas Bender, Professor of History • Godfried Toussaint, Research Professor of Computer Science • Elias Khoury, Global Distinguished Professor of Modern Arabic Literature • Anthony Kronman, Global Professor, New York University Abu Dhabi • Cyrus Patell, Associate Dean of Humanities • Iván Szelényi, Emeritus Dean of Social Sciences • Werner Sollors, Global Professor of Literature • Eugene Trubowitz, Global Professor of Mathematics • Carol Gilligan, Visiting Professor of Humanities and Applied Psychology • Daryl Fougnie, Assistant Professor of Psychology

NYU Shanghai

Professor emeriti and other notable faculty

New York University Presidents

New York University founders

Founders of NYU include: