List of Purdue University faculty

The following is a partial list of Purdue University faculty, including current, former, emeritus , and deceased faculty, and administrators at Purdue University.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by editing the page to add missing items, with references to reliable sources.

Notable faculty

Agriculture

• Ralph Merrill Caldwell – Plant breeder
• Gebisa Ejeta – Professor of Agronomy, winner of World Food Prize
• Philip E. Nelson – food scientist, winner of the World Food Prize

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 technology
• Sabine 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 accumulators
• Supriyo Datta (Professor of Electrical Engineering) – researcher of nanoelectronics
• Rui 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 transmission
• W. Kent Fuchs (Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering) – Provost of Cornell University
• R. Edwin Garcia (Professor of Materials Engineering) – researcher and author ^[1]
• Leslie Geddes (Showalter Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biomedical Engineering) – National Medal of Technology recipient
• Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr. (lecturer) – industrial engineer
• Lillian 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 conditioning
• Kathleen Howell – astrodynamist known for deep space spacecraft mission design using halo orbits
• Frank P. Incropera (Professor of Mechanical Engineering) – ISI highly cited researcher on heat transfer
• Leah 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 processing
• Rangasami L. Kashyap (Professor of Electrical Engineering) – applied mathematician
• Linda Katehi (Professor of Electrical Engineering and Dean of Engineering) – Chancellor of University of California, Davis
• Ronald Latanision, Neil Armstrong Distinguished Visiting professor
• Daniel 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 delivery
• R. 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 programs
• Vladimir Shalaev (Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and of Biomedical Engineering) – researcher of metamaterials, transformation optics, nanophotonics and plasmonics
• R. 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 Center
• Raymond Viskanta – ISI Highly Cited researcher in the field of heat transfer
• Steve 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 theory
• Marianne Boruch – poet and essayist
• Robert X. Browning – Professor of Political Science
• Ronald Verlin Cassill – novelist, short story writer, reviewer, editor, painter, and lithographer
• Philip B. Coulter – political scientist
• Paul Draper – philosopher of religion, editor of the journal Philo
• William H. Gass – novelist and short story writer
• Roxane Gay – writer and editor
• Mark Harris – novelist and biographer
• Djelal Kadir – literature academic
• Brigit Pegeen Kelly – poet
• Emma Montgomery McRae – Professor of Literature, Dean of Women
• Robert Melson – political scientist specializing in ethnic conflict and genocide
• Cheryl Mendelson – professor of philosophy, novelist, non-fiction writer
• Alan H. Monroe – creator of Monroe's motivated sequence
• Annie Smith Peck – professor of archaeology and Latin, mountaineer
• Victor Raskin – Professor of Linguistics, founding editor of Humor: International Journal of Humor Research
• W. Charles Redding – professor of communication, "father" of organizational communication
• Gunther E. Rothenberg – military historian
• Kermit Scott – professor of philosophy, advocate for the poor, previously thought to be the namesake of Kermit the Frog
• Michael Stohl – political scientist

Management and economics

• Charalambos D. Aliprantis – economist who introduced Banach space and Riesz space methods in economic theory
• Frank Bass – Professor of Industrial Administration, a founder of marketing science who developed the Bass diffusion model
• Michael A. Campion – Professor of Management, psychologist
• Alok R. Chaturvedi – Professor of MIS, Founder and the Director of SEAS Laboratory of Krannert School of Management
• Elizabeth Hoffman – economist, now Provost of Iowa State University
• Raghavendra Rau – Rothschild Professorship of Finance at the University of Cambridge
• Stanley Reiter – economist
• Vernon L. Smith – Nobel Laureate in Economics in 2002
• Shailendra Raj Mehta – President & Director of MICA

Pharmacy, health and human sciences

• Sugato Chakravarty – professor of consumer science, Associate Editor of the Journal of Financial Markets
• Lisa Hopp – nursing educator
• Henry L. Roediger III – researcher of psychology and the human memory
• Peter Schönemann – professor of Psychological Sciences
• William H. Starbuck – researcher of cognitive psychology, organizational behavior, and organization theory
• Wei Zheng – pharmaceutical scientist

Science and mathematics

• Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar – Professor of Mathematics, known for his contributions to singularity theory
• Ross H. Arnett, Jr. – entomologist and beetle researcher
• Struther Arnott – molecular biologist and cancer researcher
• Mikhail Atallah – computer scientist, researcher on algorithms and computer security
• Louis Auslander – mathematician
• David Avison – physicist and photographer
• John D. Axtell – chemist, agronomist, a discoverer of high-lysine sorghum
• Harry Beevers – plant physiologist
• Jeffrey Bennetzen – Professor of Genetics
• Elisa Bertino – computer scientist, director of CERIAS
• Mary Ellen Bock – statistician, chair of the statistics department from 1995 to 2010, president of the American Statistical Association in 2007
• Dale L. Boger – medicinal and organic chemist
• Carl R. de Boor – assistant professor at Purdue University, won the John von Neumann Prize from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 1996
• Louis de Branges de Bourcia – Professor of Mathematics, proved the Bieberbach conjecture
• Herbert C. Brown – Nobel Laureate in Chemistry in 1979
• Alok R. Chaturvedi – professor in the Department of Computer Sciences; the Director of Purdue Homeland Security Institute; technical lead for the Sentient World Simulation project
• William S. Cleveland – computer scientist and statistician, known for significant contributions to local regression and data visualization; credited with defining and naming the field of data science
• Douglas Comer – computer scientist, Internet pioneer
• R. Graham Cooks – chemist, mass spectrometrist
• Ronald DeVore – mathematician known for approximation theory, wavelet theory, compressive sensing
• Richard Duffin – physicist
• David S. Ebert – computer scientist, Director of the U.S. DHS Center of Excellence (COE) in Visual Analytics (VACCINE) and the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)
• Ahmed K. Elmagarmid – computer scientist, Executive Director of the Qatar Computing Research Institute
• Paul Erdős – Professor of Mathematics, winner of the Wolf Prize in Mathematics in 1983/4
• Ephraim Fischbach – physicist known for research on the fifth force
• Harley Flanders – mathematician and textbook author
• Joseph Francisco – atmospheric chemist, President of the American Chemical Society
• Walter Gautschi – mathematician, contributor to numerical analysis
• Jayanta Kumar Ghosh – statistician
• Melvin Hochster – commutative algebraist
• Otto F. Hunziker – early head of Dairy department, supervised construction of Smith Hall
• Meyer Jerison – mathematician known for his work in functional analysis and rings
• Minhyong Kim – mathematician
• Robert R. Korfhage – computer scientist who contributed to information retrieval
• Karl Lark-Horovitz – pioneer in solid state physics, contributed to the invention of the first transistor
• Brian A. Larkins – molecular biologist
• Chris J. Leaver – botanist, now at the University of Oxford
• László Lempert, professor of mathematics, winner of Stefan Bergman Prize, 2001
• Jingjing Liang, associate professor of forest ecology
• Bernard J. Liska – food scientist
• Sergey Macheret – physicist and aerospace engineer
• Fred McLafferty – chemist who described the McLafferty rearrangement in mass spectrometry
• Edwin T. Mertz – chemist and biochemist who co-discovered high-lysine corn
• Dan Milisavljevic – astronomer and physicist
• David S. Moore – statistician
• John Ulric Nef – chemist who discovered the Nef reaction
• Ei-ichi Negishi – Professor of Chemistry, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry in 2010
• Albert Overhauser – Professor of Physics, discovered the Overhauser Effect
• Alan Perlis – Professor of Mathematics, the first person to win the Turing Award in 1966
• Justin Jesse Price – mathematician
• John 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 Laboratory
• David Sanders – Professor of Biological Sciences
• Otto Schilling – algebraist
• Julian Schwinger – Nobel Laureate in Physics in 1965
• Freydoon Shahidi – mathematician, a namesake of the Langlands–Shahidi method
• Shen Chun-shan – physicist, president of National Tsing Hua University
• Yum-Tong Siu – professor of mathematics
• Jeffrey H. Smith – algebraic topologist
• Eugene Spafford – Professor of Computer Science and Director of CERIAS, computer security expert
• Lonnie Lee VanZandt – Professor of Physics, formed the molecular biological physics group at Purdue
• Jeffrey 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 1897
• George 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 1906
• Arthur Winfree – theoretical biologist, MacArthur Fellow, winner of the Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics
• Myron E. Witham – Professor of Mathematics, college football coach
• Arif Zaman – Professor of Statistics, researcher of pseudo-random number generation and computer science
• Jian-Kang Zhu – Distinguished Professor of Plant Biology

Other

• Richard Blanton – anthropologist and archaeologist
• David 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, novelist ^[2]
• Gary Lee Nelson – composer
• Jay Nunamaker – researcher of information systems
• Lynn Okagaki – Commissioner of the National Center for Education Research
• John Purdue – founder and namesake
• Timothy Sands – provost, former acting president, materials engineer, President of Virginia Tech
• Mark Smith – Dean of Graduate School, 1984 Olympic fencer. ^[3]
• 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 designer
• Randy 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 composer

References

1. "R. Edwin García". IEEE Xplore. IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Retrieved June 7, 2023.
2. "The Charles Major Papers" . Retrieved September 15, 2014.
3. Lauren, Westberg (July 28, 2012). "Olympic fencer teaches students, reflects on games". Purdue Exponent. Retrieved July 28, 2012.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by editing the page to add missing items, with references to reliable sources.