This is a list of people connected to Stony Brook University.
| Name | Years served | |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. John Francis Lee | 1961 | |
| 1965–1978 | ||
| 1980–1994 | ||
| 1994–2009 | ||
| 2009–2019 | ||
| July 1, 2020present |
This list includes both present and former faculty members.
| Name | Known for | Relationship to Stony Brook | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literary critic, philosopher and theologian | Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies | ||
| Sociologist, author | Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus [1] | ||
| Nobel laureate in economics | Visiting Leading Professor; founding member of Center for Game Theory in Economics | ||
| Poet, playwright, activist | Professor Emeritus, Department of Africana Studies | ||
| Statistician | |||
| Microbiology, helped discover causative agent of Lyme disease[2] | Professor, Director of the Stony Brook Center for Infectious Diseases, and Chair of the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology | ||
| Molecular biologist and evolutionary biologist[3] and Vice President for Research at Cornerstone Pharmaceuticals.[4] | Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology in the School of Medicine | ||
| Philosopher and metaphysician | Professor emeritus in the Department of Philosophy[5] | ||
| Pianist | Artist in Residence, Music Department at the Staller Center (1965–1993) | ||
| Mathematician; recipient of the Sloan Research Fellowship (1971–1973); Guggenheim Fellowship (1984), elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences (1997); received the Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry (2001) | Professor, Department of Mathematics (1969–1992)[6] | ||
| Author of numerous books on Sufism and Islamic philosophy | Distinguished Professor, Department of Asian and Asian American Studies[7] [8] | ||
| Dermatologist, biomedical engineer | Professor, Health Sciences Center | ||
| Rose Laub Coser | Sociologist; vice-president of the American Sociological Association; president of the Eastern Sociological Society; contribution to medical sociology, role theory, and sociology of the family | Professor Emeritus of Sociology[9] | |
| Clinical Psychologist | Professor, Department of Psychology [10] | ||
| Mathematician, Fields Medallist (1986), Shaw Prize recipient (2009), Breakthrough Prize laureate (2014) | Permanent member, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics[11] | ||
| Violist, Emerson String Quartet, 1977–present | Artist in Residence, Music Department at the Staller Center[12] | ||
| Writer, National Book Critics Circle Award winner (1979) | Professor, Department of English (1978–1996) | ||
| Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolution | |||
| Sociologist, Pioneer in the field of human sexuality | Professor, Department of Sociology (1968-1998) [13] | ||
| Materials science; recipient of the National Medal of Technology, 1995; helped invent magnetic materials used for erasable optical data storage | Professor of Materials Science and engineering | ||
| Geneticist | |||
| Former chairman, Department of Applied Mathematics | |||
| Sociologist, the author of "The Strength of Weak Ties." | Associate to Full Professor of Sociology in 1977–1992 | ||
| Artist | Professor of Computer Science | ||
| Literary theorist, philosopher | Distinguished University Professor | ||
| Chief Research Officer and Vice-President for Research (2012–) | |||
| Philosopher of science | Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy | ||
| Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology[14] | |||
| Research in mammalian dentition | Research Professor of Evolutionary Developmental Biology[15] | ||
| Professor | |||
| Developer of Happenings | Department of Fine Arts, 1961–1968; Professor | ||
| Distinguished Professor, Department of English (1963–?) | |||
| Sociologist | Professor in the Department of Social Sciences | ||
| Executive director of the Long Island Regional Planning Board | Director of Stony Brook University's Center for Regional Policy Studies | ||
| Writer, anti-war activist, author of Born on the Fourth of July | Writer-in-residence (1983) | ||
| Art critic | |||
| Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2003 for work in developing magnetic resonance imaging[16] | Professor, Department of Chemistry and Radiology (1969-1985) | ||
| Paleontologist and conservationist | Visiting Professor of Anthropology | ||
| Benjamin Whisoh Lee | Theoretical Physicist, head of theoretical research group at Fermilab who was influential in the development of standard model | Professor of Physics | |
| Sociologist | Professor in the Department of Sociology | ||
| University President (1980–1994) | |||
| Mathematician, Fellow of the Royal Society, 1994 | |||
| Communication and cognition of chimpanzees | Professor of psychology | ||
| Mathematician; Fields Medal winner (1962); Abel Prize laureate (2011); member of US National Academy of Sciences; recipient of the National Medal of Science; Wolf Prize laureate; three-time winner of the AMS Steele Prize in mathematics | Director, Institute for Mathematical Sciences at Stony Brook[17] | ||
| Computer scientist; mathematician; Gödel Prize(2010); ACM Fellow | Professor of Applied Mathematics and Statistics and Research Professor of Computer Science at Stony Brook University.[18] | ||
| Particle physicist | Provost (1981–1986)[19] | ||
| Associate Professor of Comparative Literature | |||
| Indologist, scholar of Hinduism | Associate Professor, Department of Asian and Asian American Studies[20] | ||
| Artist | Professor Emeritus and Visiting Professor, Department of Art | ||
| Author, evolutionary biologist | Former professor of ecology and evolution | ||
| Author | Visiting lecturer (1967–68) | ||
| Recipient of the Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry; member of the US National Academy of Sciences; founder of Renaissance Technologies; philanthropist; benefactor of Stony Brook and other universities | Former chairman, Department of Mathematics | ||
| Pulitzer Prize-winning poet | Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of English | ||
| Chemist | Distinguished Professor, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences | ||
| Author, evolutionary biologist | professor of biology | ||
| Distinguished Professor[21] | |||
| Primatologist, physical anthropologist | Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Anthropology, and director, Institute for the Conservation of Tropical Environments[22] | ||
| Nobel Prize in Physics, 1957, shared with Tsung-Dao Lee for work on weak nuclear forces and parity | Professor (1965–1999)[23] | ||
| Fields Medal-winning mathematician (1982) | Assistant professor (1972–1974) | ||
| Marci Lobel | Health psychologist, known for her research on women’s reproductive health. | Professor of Psychology,[24] Senior researcher and director of the Stress and Reproduction (STAR) Lab[25] |
| Name | Known for | Relationship to Stony Brook | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chris Algieri | Professional boxer, former WBO junior welterweight title holder | B.S., Health Care Science | |
| WCBS-TV and WCBS-AM meteorologist | B.S., Meteorology | ||
| Conceptual artist and electrical engineer | B.E., Electrical Engineering | ||
| Director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | M.A., Ph.D., Theoretical Nuclear Physics | ||
| Sociologist | Ph.D., 1997 | ||
| B.A., 1980 | |||
| Attended and played basketball in 1988–89 (transferred to Montclair State University) | |||
| M.A., English Education | |||
| B.S., Psychology, Fine Art, Pre-Med | |||
| B.A., Theater Arts, 1983 | |||
| Classical violist | D.M. | ||
| Sociologist and labor activist | Ph.D., Sociology, 1978 | ||
| Post-doctoral studies, 1979 | |||
| B.A., Theater Arts, 1982 | |||
| B.A., English, 1994 | |||
| BBC Weather forecaster | B.S., Meteorology | ||
| radio show host and publisher of magazine | |||
| New York Post writer/editor | B.A., English, 1971 | ||
| Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, 1981 | |||
| Billionaire, Co-founder and CEO of Highbridge Capital Management | B.A., Economics, 1978 | ||
| B.A., 1995 | |||
| Oceanographer NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center | Ph.D., 1985 | ||
| B.S., Political Science | |||
| B.A., 1967 | |||
| Acting Surgeon General of the United States, Acting Assistant Secretary for Health [26] | B.A., Biology, 1978 [27] | ||
| Professor at Yale University | Ph.D., Computer Science | ||
| Opera singer | B.A. | ||
| Television writer | B.A. | ||
| Squash player | |||
| Ph.D. | |||
| B.A., 2002 | |||
| Mathematician | |||
| Former president of Stanford University and 2017 Turing Award recipient | M.A., Ph.D., Computer Science | ||
| PEN Award-winning historian and former vice-president, Penguin Random House[28] [29] | B.A, 1988[30] | ||
| D.M.A. in piano performance | |||
| Ph.D., 1985 | |||
| Ph.D., 1974 | |||
| Ph.D., 1982[31] | |||
| Scientist, astronomer, mathematician | |||
| Academy Award for Scientific and Technical Achievement winner | B.S. 1981, Computer Science | ||
| Opera singer | B.A. | ||
| Neuroscientist | Ph.D., 1977 | ||
| International concert pianist, founder and artistic director of Chamber Music OC, member of classical music ensemble Trio Céleste | D.M.A. in piano performance | ||
| B.A., 1992 | |||
| Sociologist | Ph.D., 1979 | ||
| B.A., 1986; Ph.D., 1992 | |||
| M.S., 1980 | |||
| Microbiologist | Ph.D., 2002 | ||
| Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences and the Indian National Science Academy and a recipient of the S.S. Bhatnagar Award for Physical Sciences | Ph.D., Theoretical Physics | ||
| Physicist | Ph.D., 2000 | ||
| Singer, Song-Writer and Social Activist | B.S., Biomedical engineering and Applied Mathematics | ||
| B.S., Business management, 1997 | |||
| Historian | Ph.D. | ||
| B.S., Computer Science 1997, B.S., Mathematics 1997 | |||
| Rock music promoter | B.A., 1965, 1966 | ||
| Computer scientist | Ph.D., 1996 | ||
| Nan Phinney | Accelerator physicist at Stanford Linear Collider[32] | Ph.D., 1972 | |
| Sociologist | Ph.D., 1978 | ||
| Director of Center for Rehabilitation of Pain Syndromes at David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA; president of North American Neuromodulation Society | M.D., M.S., B.S. 1972 Stony Brook's SAB Concert Chairman | ||
| Author, and co-creator of the Macintosh computer[33] at Apple Computer, Inc. | B.S., 1964; B.A., 1965 | ||
| B.S., Information Systems, 2013 | |||
| Writer, sports agent at C.L. Rocks Corporation | B.A. History, 1994 (Magna Cum Laude) | ||
| World's youngest college professor (age 18), B.S. at age 14 | B.S. 2003 Applied Mathematics summa cum laude[34] | ||
| Howard Saltz | As editor of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2013 | B.A. 1983 | |
| B.S., 1968 | |||
| B.A., 1984[35] | |||
| B.S., Computer Science / Philosophy | |||
| Distinguished Professor at Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad. Winner of Fundamental Physics Prize | Ph.D., Theoretical Physics | ||
| Professional soccer player | |||
| Composer | |||
| B.A., 1990 | |||
| Geneticist | Ph.D. | ||
| B.A., 1979 | |||
| Michelle Tokarczyk | Author, poet, and professor of English at Goucher College | Ph.D., 1986 | |
| President of METI (Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence), astrobiologist | Ph.D., Psychology, 1996[36] | ||
| Molecular biologist and geneticist | B.A., 1974 | ||
| Ph.D., 1991 | |||
| Santanu Chaudhuri | Ph.D., Computational and Materials Chemistry | ||
| Sumathi Rao | Professor of Physics at Harish-Chandra Research Institute | PhD Physics 1983 | |
| Robert J. Frey | Research Professor at Stony Brook University, former MD of Renaissance Technologies | B.S., 1980; Ph.D., 1986., Applied Mathematics | |
| Richard Gelfond | CEO of IMAX Corporation | B.A., 1976 | |
| Gary Beauvoir | Pilot | B.A., 2020 | |