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.

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
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
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
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
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
Chris J. Leaver – botanist, now at the University of Oxford
László Lempert, professor of mathematics, winner of Stefan Bergman Prize, 2001
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

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

Purdue University

Located in: West Lafayette, Indiana

System

Academics

Athletics

Teams	Purdue Boilermakers Baseball Men's basketball Women's basketball Football Men's golf Softball Women's volleyball
Indiana rivalry	Men's basketball Governor's Cup (Multi-sport) Old Oaken Bucket (Football) Barn Burner Trophy (Women's basketball) Monon Spike (Women's volleyball) Golden Boot (Women's soccer)
Other rivalries	Illinois (Purdue Cannon) Notre Dame (Shillelagh Trophy) Chicago
Facilities	Ross–Ade Stadium Mackey Arena Alexander Field Lambert Field Lambert Fieldhouse
Other	All-American Marching Band Big Bass Drum Big Ten Conference Glee Club Hail Purdue! Boilermaker Special Purdue Pete