People

Professors

James Aspnes, 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.

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.

Roger Howe, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Mathematics. Ph.D.: Berkeley 1969. Research interests: Representation theory, automorphic forms, harmonic analysis, invariant theory.

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

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. Ph.D.: Australian National University, 1976. Research interests: Weak convergence and emperical processes, stochastic processes, asymptotics, semiparamatrices, econometrics.

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

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.

John Wettlaufer, A. M. Bateman Professor of Geophysics and Physics. Ph.D.: University of Washington 1991. Research interests: Moving boundary problems, geophysics, crystal growth, fluid mechanics, applied mathematics and statistical physics.

Steven W. Zucker, Professor of Computer Science, 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

Josephine Hoh, Associate Professor of Epidemiology / Public Health and Opthalmology

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

Assistant Professors

Lisha Chen, Assistant Professor of Statistics

Triet Le, Assistant Professor of Mathematics

Huibin Znou, Assistant Professor of Mathematics

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

Dan Kushnir, Ph.D. Weizmann Institute. Research interests: Numerical Analysis, Statistical Data Analysis, Pattern Recognition.

Adam Marcus, Ph.D. Georgia Tech 2008. Research interests: Methods in combinatorics, information theory, algorithms, optimization.

Andrew Wells, Ph.D. University of Cambridge 2008. Research interests: Applied mathematics, turbulent convection, aspects of fluid flow in the oceans, interactions with ice in the environment.

Senior Research Scientist

Paolo E. Barbano, Ph.D. CUNY 1995

Nicholas Carriero, Ph.D. Yale University

Research Scientists

Andreas Coppi

Ali Haddad

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

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

Postdoctoral Associate

Gil David

Graduate Students

Second Year

Rishidev Chaudhuri

Third Year

Jae Oh Woo

Fifth Year

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

Recent Alumni

Bradley Alpert: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder

Nicholas Bennett: Schlumberger Doll Research

Yu Chen: Courant, NYU

Hongwei Cheng: Morgan Stanley

Andreas Coppi: Plain Sight Systems

Aloke Dutt: Morgan Stanley

Andreas Glaser: McKinsey & Company

Leslie Greengard: Courant, NYU

Steven Jaslar

Stephane Lafon: Google

Ann Lee: Carnegie-Mellon

Gilad Lerman: University of Minnesota

Xiaoye Li: Susquehanna International Group

Jin Hong Ma: Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Michael Mahoney: Yahoo Research

Per-Gunnar Martinsson: University of Colorado

Lucas Monzon: University of Colorado at Boulder

Michael O'Neil

Boaz Nadler: Weizmann Institute

Naoki Saito: University of California at Davis

Mark Tygert: Courant Institute, NYU

David Wallmann

Stephan Winkler: Goldman Sachs

Francis Woolfe

Hong Xiao: University of California at Davis

Keli Xu: University of Alberta School of Business. Email: keli.xu@ualberta.ca