People

Professors

James Aspnes, Associate Professor of Computer Science. Ph.D.: Carnegie Mellon 1992. Research interests: Distributed algorithms, randomized algorithms.

Andrew Barron, Professor of Statistics and Electrical Engineering. Ph.D.: Stanford 1985. Research interests: Statistical information theory, probability limit theorems, function estimation, neural networks.

Richard Beals, James E. English Professor of Mathematics. Ph.D.: Yale 1964. Research interests: Linear PDE, inverse scattering.

Donald Brown, Philip R. Allen Professor of Economics, Professor of Mathematics. Ph.D.: Stevens 1969. Research interests: Finance, semiparametric econometrics.

Joseph Chang, Professor of Statistics. Ph.D.: Stanford 1989. Research interests: Probability, random walks, sequential analysis, pattern recognition, and machine learning.

Ronald Coifman, Phillips Professor of Mathematics. Ph.D.: Geneva 1965. Research interests: Nonlinear Fourier analysis, wavelet theory, numerical analysis and scattering theory. New mathematical tools for efficient computation and transcriptions of physical data, with applications to numerical analysis, feature extraction recognition and denoising.

Gustave L. Davis, Clinical Professor of Pathology. M.D.: SUNY College of Medicine. Research interests: Quantitative methods in pathology and bioinformatics.

Eric Denardo, Professor of Operations Research. Ph.D.: Northwestern 1965. Research interests: Optimization, manufacturing systems, telecommunications systems.

Stanley C. Eisenstat, Professor of Computer Science. Ph.D.: Stanford 1972. Research interests: Numerical analysis (linear and nonlinear algebra), parallel programming.

Michael J. Fischer, Professor of Computer Science. Ph.D.: Harvard 1968. Research interests: Cryptography and security, distributed computing, algorithms, theory of computing.

John A. Hartigan, Eugene Higgins Professor of Statistics. Ph.D.: Princeton 1962. Research interests: Foundations of probability and statistics, Bayes theory, classification, statistical computing, graphical methods.

Roger Howe, Frederick Phineas Rose Professor of Mathematics. Ph.D.: Berkeley 1969. Research interests: Representation theory, automorphic forms, harmonic analysis, invariant theory.

Peter W. Jones, Professor of Mathematics. Ph.D.: UCLA 1978. Research interests: Real. complex, and Fourier analysis, singular integrals, potential theory, dynamical systems.

Ravindran Kannan, William K. Lanman, Jr. Profess of Computer Science, Professor of Applied Mathematics. Ph.D. Cornell 1980. Research interests: Theoretical computer science, discrete mathematics, algorithms.

Steven A. Orszag, Percey F. Smith Professor of Mathematics. Ph.D.: Princeton 1966. Research interests: Computational mathematics, turbulence and CFD, fluid dynamics, applied mathematics, statistical methods.

David B. Pollard, Professor of Statistics and Mathematics. Ph.D.: Australian National University, 1976. Research interests: Weak convergence and emperical processes, stochastic processes, asymptotics, semiparamatrices, econometrics.

Vladimir Rokhlin, Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science. Ph.D.: Rice 1983. Research interests: Numerical scattering theory, elliptical partial differential equations, numerical solution of integral equations.

Herbert E. Scarf, Sterling Professor of Economics. Ph.D.: Princeton 1954. Research interests: Indivisibilities in production.

Martin H. Schultz, Arthur K. Watson Professor of Computer Science. Ph.D. Harvard 1965. Research interests: High-performance computing, algorithm design, analysis and implementation. Parallel programming environments and parallel architectures, ranging from massively parallel processors to clusters of workstations and PCs as well as P2P solution on the internet.

Mitchell D. Smooke, Strathcona Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Professor of Applied Physics. Ph.D. Harvard 1978. Research interests: Computational combustion, chemical vapor deposition, numerical solution of ordinary and partial differential equations, large-scale scientific computation.

Daniel A. Spielman, Professor of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science. Ph.D. MIT. Research interests: Analysis of algorithms and heuristics, error-correcting codes, combinatorial scientific computing, spectral graph theory, and combinatorics.

Katepalli R. Sreenivasan, Adjunct Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Physics and Applied Physics. Ph.D.: Indian Institute of Science, 1970. Primary expertise: Fluid mechanics and turbulence. Other current research interests: Complex fluids, nonlinear dynamics, nonequilibrium phenomena, cryogenic helium, combustion, atmospheric phenomena.

Günter Wagner, Alison Richard Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Ph.D.: University of Vienna 1979. Research interests: Evolution of development, evolutionary theory, population genetics theory.

Steven W. Zucker, David and Lucile Packard Professor of Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering. Director and DGS, Yale Program in Applied Mathematics. Ph.D.: Drexel 1975. Research interests: Computational vision, computational neuroscience, image analysis, robotics.

Associate Professor

Sekhar C. Tatikonda, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering; Assistant Professor of of Statistics

Assistant Professor

John Emerson, Assistant Professor of Statistics

Mokshay Madiman, Assistant Professor of Statistics. Ph.D.: Brown 2005. Research interests: Information theory and connections to probability and statistics, Probabilistic methods in discrete mathematics and functional analysis, Theoretical and applied probability.

Josiah Willard Gibbs Assistant Professors in Applied Mathematics

Yoel Shkolnisky, Ph.D. in Computer Science, Tel-Aviv University, 2004. Research interests: Applied computational harmonic analysis, scientific computing, image processing, signal processing.

Amit Singer, Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, Tel-Aviv University, 2004.

Mark Tygert, B.A. Mathematics, Princeton, 2001; Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, Yale University, 2004.

Research Scientists

Paolo E. Barbano, Ph.D.: CUNY 1995

Frederick W. Warner, Ph.D.: Yale 1992. Research interests: Applied harmonic analysis, bioinformatics, pattern recognition.

Graduate Students

First Year

Rishidev Chaudhuri

Edward S. Coakley, B.A. Physics and Mathematics, Harvard University, 2007; M.A. Theoretical Physics, Harvard University, 2007.

Second Year

Jae Oh Woo

Fourth Year

Steven Jaslar, B.A. Mathematics, Rutgers, 2004.

Xiangtao Liu, B.S. Physics, Beijing University, 2000; M.S. Physics, Beijing University, 2003.

Francis Woolfe, B.A. Computer Science and Mathematics, Oxford, 2003; M.S. Applied Mathematics, Oxford, 2004.

Fifth Year

Michael O'Neil, B.A. Mathematics, Cornell, 2003. Research interests: Partial differential equations, Fourier analysis, bio-mathematics. Publications: