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.

• 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

• Rakesh Agrawal (professor of Chemical Engineering) – 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
• Kathleen Howell – astrodynamist known for deep space spacecraft mission design using halo orbits
• F.W. Hutchinson – engineer and researcher of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning
• 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) – 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)
• John W. Sutherland (professor and Fehsenfeld Family Head of Environmental and Ecological Engineering (EEE))
• 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, 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

• 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

• 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 director of SEAS Laboratory of Krannert School of Management
• Elizabeth Hoffman – economist, now provost of Iowa State University
• Shailendra Raj Mehta – president and director of Mudra Institute of Communications Ahmedabad
• Raghavendra Rau – Rothschild Professor of Finance at the University of Cambridge
• Stanley Reiter – economist
• Vernon L. Smith – Nobel laureate in Economics in 2002

• Sugato Chakravarty – professor of consumer science, associateeEditor of the Journal of Financial Markets
• Lisa Hopp – nursing educator
• Richard Mattes – nutrition scientist
• 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

• 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 1995–2010, 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; 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
• Bruce A. Craig – statistician known for his work in life sciences; director of the Statistical Consulting Service
• Burgess Davis – mathematician and statistician known for his work on martingales and the Burkholder–Davis–Gundy inequality
• 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
• Alexander Gluhovsky – physicist and statistician known for his contributions to geophysical fluid dynamics and time series analysis in the geosciences
• 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
• George P. McCabe – statistician
• 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, 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
• Herman Rubin – professor of statistics and mathematics known for fundamental contributions across numerous mathematical sciences
• 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
• Frederi Viens – statistician and mathematician focusing on probability theory, stochastic processes, quantitative finance, and Bayesian statistics
• 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

• 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