List of NYU Tandon School of Engineering people explained

The following is a partial list of notable NYU Tandon School of Engineering alumni, and current and former faculty. Also see List of New York University alumni.

Notable faculty

• Stephen Arnold
• Boris Aronov, Sloan Research Fellow
• Dan Bailey – fly-shop owner, innovative fly developer and staunch Western conservationist
• Barouh Berkovits - invented the cardiac defibrillator and artificial cardiac pacemaker.^[1]
• Maureen Braziel
• 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
• Justin Cappos - Professor in the department of Computer Science and Engineering; data-security software developer
• Ju-Chin Chu – Chemical engineer and father of Steven Chu. He became an Academia Sinica member in 1964.
• 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
• Antonio Ferri - leader of a team that created the first practical hypersonic tunnel heater, used to heat air for discharge into a wind tunnel.^[2]
• R. M. Foster – Bell Labs mathematician whose work was of significance regarding electronic filters for use on telephone lines.
• Herbert Freeman
• Siddharth Garg - cybersecurity researcher, associate professor
• 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^[3]
• 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^[4]
• Jerry MacArthur Hultin
• Katherine Isbister
• Myles Jackson
• Andrew Kalotay
• 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
• Joseph Wood Krutch – writer, critic, and naturalist
• Erich E. Kunhardt
• Yann LeCun
• 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
• Erwin Lutwak - mathematician
• Rudolph Marcus – former Polytechnic professor; Nobel Prize in chemistry; 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
• 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
• J. H. Mulligan, Jr. – namesake of IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal
• Tsuneo Nakahara
• 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
• Athanasios Papoulis – pioneer in the field of stochastic processes
• Leonard Peikoff – former philosophy professor; founder of the Ayn Rand Institute
• David J. Pine^[5]
• John R. Ragazzini
• Theodore Rappaport
• John Howard Raymond
• Hans Reissner – German aeronautical engineer
• Keith W. Ross - Computer science professor
• Murray Rothbard – former economics professor; key figure in libertarian movement
• Michael Shelley – Professor of Mechanical Engineering
• Samuel Sheldon - IEEE president.^[6]
• Joshua W. Sill – Professor of Mathematics; became the youngest General in the Civil War; namesake of Fort Sill
• Aleksandra Smiljanić
• Joel B. Snyder - IEEE president
• K. R. Sreenivasan
• 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
• John G. Truxal
• 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; Guggenheim fellow
• 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
• Robert Ubell
• Beth Simone Noveck

See also

• List of New York University alumni
• List of New York University faculty
• List of university and college mergers in the United States

Notes and References

1. Web site: Biography of Barouh V. Berkovits . . August 31, 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120529102251/http://www.hrsonline.org/News/ep-history/notable-figures/barouhberkovits.cfm . May 29, 2012.
2. Web site: ePoly Briefs: Did You Know Poly Inventors and Innovators . February 2003 . NYU Tandon School of Engineering . February 8, 2019 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131004224242/http://archive.poly.edu/poly_ebriefs/archives/Feb03.htm . October 4, 2013.
3. Web site: People - Electrical and Computer Engineering . NYU Tandon School of Engineering . February 8, 2019 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131205044700/http://www.poly.edu/academics/departments/electrical/people . December 5, 2013.
4. Web site: People - Technology Management and Innovation . NYU Tandon School of Engineering . February 8, 2019 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130210092150/http://www.poly.edu/academics/departments/technology/people . February 10, 2013 .
5. Web site: David Pine . NYU Tandon School of Engineering . February 8, 2019.
6. Web site: Samuel Sheldon . Engineering and Technology History Wiki . February 8, 2019.