Faculty

Scott Armstrong

Professor of Mathematics

Office: WWH 616

Ext: 8-3148

Research Interests: Partial differential equations, probability theory, and stochastic homogenization

Yuri Bakhtin

Professor of Mathematics

Office: WWH 729

Ext: 8-3106

Research Interests: Random dynamics, probabilistic models of mathematical physics

Gérard Ben Arous

Silver Professor of Mathematics; Director, Courant Institute

Office: WWH 812

Ext: 8-3108

Research Interests: Probability theory, stochastic processes, partial differential equations

Fedor Bogomolov

Silver Professor of Mathematics

Office: WWH 602

Ext: 8-3243

Research Interests: Algebraic geometry and related problems in algebra, topology, number theory

Paul Bourgade

Professor of Mathematics

Office: WWH 629

Ext: 8-3090

Research Interests: Probability, random matrices, statistical physics and stochastic processes

Tristan Buckmaster

Professor of Mathematics

Office: WWH 713

Oliver Bühler

Professor of Mathematics and Atmosphere/Ocean Science

Office: WWH 1129

Ext: 8-3265

Research Interests: Geophysical fluid dynamics, interactions between waves and vortices, acoustics, statistical mechanics

Russel Caflisch

Professor of Mathematics

Office: WWH 1303

Ext: 8-3184

Research Interests: Applied math, PDEs, fluid dynamics, plasma physics, materials science, Monte Carlo methods, computational finance

Sylvain E. Cappell

Silver Professor of Mathematics

Office: WWH 1112

Ext: 8-3281

Research Interests: Algebraic and geometric topology, symplectic and algebraic geometry

Jeff Cheeger

Silver Professor of Mathematics

Office: WWH 802

Ext: 8-3282

Research Interests: Differential geometry and its connections to analysis and topology

Yu Chen

Associate Professor of Mathematics

Office: WWH 1126

Ext: 8-3285

Research Interests: Numerical scattering theory, ill-posed problems, scientific computing

Alex Cohen

Assistant Professor of Mathematics

Office: WWH 613

Percy A. Deift

Silver Professor of Mathematics

Office: WWH 1028

Ext: 8-3288

Research Interests: Spectral theory and inverse spectral theory, integrable systems, Riemann-Hilbert problems

Carlos Fernandez-Granda

Associate Professor of Mathematics and Data Science

Office: WWH 1123

Ext: 8-3289

Alfred Galichon

Professor of Economics and Mathematics

Research Interests: Optimal transport, mathematical finance, economic equilibrium

Edwin Gerber

Professor of Mathematics and Atmosphere/Ocean Science

Office: WWH 911

Ext: 8-3269

Research Interests: Atmospheric dynamics, climate variability, stochastic modeling

Jonathan B. Goodman

Professor of Mathematics

Office: WWH 529

Ext: 8-3326

Research Interests: Fluid dynamics, computational physics, computational finance

Leslie Greengard

Silver Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science

Office: WWH 1117

Ext: 8-3306

Research Interests: Applied and computational math, partial differential equations, computational chemistry, mathematical biology

Mikhael Gromov

Jay Gould Professor of Mathematics

Office: WWH 1130

Ext: 8-3205

Research Interests: Riemannian manifolds, symplectic manifolds, infinite groups, math models of biomolecular systems

Sinan Gunturk

Professor of Mathematics

Office: WWH 829

Ext: 8-3246

Research Interests: Harmonic analysis, information theory, signal processing

Fengbo Hang

Associate Professor of Mathematics

Office: WWH 630

Ext: 8-3221

Research Interests: Geometric analysis

David Holland

Professor of Mathematics and Atmosphere/Ocean Science

Office: WWH 912

Ext: 8-3245

Research Interests: Ocean-ice studies, climate theory and modeling

Alan Kaptanoglu

Assistant Professor of Mathematics

Office: WWH 1108

Ofer Kimchi

Assistant Professor of Mathematics

Bruce Kleiner

Silver Professor of Mathematics

Office: WWH 817

Ext: 8-3214

Research Interests: Geometric analysis, geometric group theory and geometric evolution equations

Chao Li

Associate Professor of Mathematics

Office: WWH 503

Fang-Hua Lin

Silver Professor of Mathematics

Office: WWH 717

Ext: 8-3137

Research Interests: Partial differential equations, geometric measure theory

Eyal Lubetzky

Professor of Mathematics; Chair, Mathematics Department

Office: WWH 1012

Ext: 8-3381

Research Interests: Probability theory, statistical physics and stochastic processes

Nader Masmoudi

Professor of Mathematics

Office: WWH 501

Ext: 8-3211

Research Interests: Nonlinear parallel differential equations

David W. McLaughlin

Silver Professor of Mathematics and Neural Science

Office: WWH 1113

Ext: 8-3077

Research Interests: Applied mathematics, nonlinear wave equations, visual neural science

Alex Mogilner

Professor of Mathematics and Biology

Office: WWH 903

Ext: 2-7546

Research Interests: Computational Biology, Cell Biophysics and Mathematical Biology

Jonathan Niles-Weed

Associate Professor of Mathematics and Data Science

Office: WWH 1123

Ext: 8-3475

Research Interests: Statistics, probability, mathematics of data science

Mike O'Neil

Associate Professor of Mathematics

Office: WWH 1119

Ext: 8-3125

Research Interests: Electromagnetics, acoustics, fluid dynamics, fast algorithms, integral equations and computational statistics

Olivier Pauluis

Professor of Mathematics and Atmosphere/Ocean Science

Office: WWH 913

Ext: 8-3170

Research Interests: Climate and the general circulation of the atmosphere, moist convection, tropical meteorology, numerical modeling

Charles S. Peskin

Silver Professor of Mathematics and Neural Science

Office: WWH 917

Ext: 8-3126

Research Interests: Applications of mathematics and computing to problems in medicine and biology, cardiac fluid dynamics, molecular machinery within biological cells, mathematical/computational neuroscience

Alena Pirutka

Professor of Mathematics

Office: WWH 611

Ext: 2-7537

Research Interests: Arithmetic and algebraic geometry, number theory

Aaditya Rangan

Associate Professor of Mathematics

Office: WWH 1101

Ext: 8-3303

Research Interests: Computational biology, numerical analysis

Leif Ristroph

Associate Professor of Mathematics

Office: WWH 1127

Ext: 8-3317

Research Interests: Fluid dynamics, non-linear dynamics, experimental physics, biophysics, and geophysics

Sylvia Serfaty

Silver Professor of Mathematics

Office: WWH 612

Ext: 8-3213

Research Interests: Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, Ginzburg-Landau equations, and variational problems from material science

Jalal M. I. Shatah

Silver Professor of Mathematics

Office: WWH 712

Ext: 8-3328

Research Interests: Partial differential equations, analysis

Michael J. Shelley

Professor of Mathematics, Neural Science, and Mechanical Engineering, and the Lilian and George Lyttle Professor of Applied Mathematics

Office: WWH 1102

Ext: 8-3284

Research Interests: Applied math and modeling, visual neuroscience, fluid dynamics, computational physics and neuroscience

K. Shafer Smith

Professor of Mathematics and Atmosphere/Ocean Science

Office: WWH 916

Ext: 8-3176

Research Interests: Geophysical fluid dynamics, physical oceanography and climate

Georg Stadler

Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science

Office: WWH 1111

Ext: 8-3111

Research Interests: Parallel scientific computing, inverse problems, PDE-constrained optimization, variational inequalities, computational earth sciences

Daniel Stein

Professor of Mathematics and Physics

Office: WWH 811

Ext: 8-3178

Research Interests: Theoretical condensed matter physics, statistical mechanics, and mathematical physics

Esteban G. Tabak

Professor of Mathematics

Office: WWH 1017

Ext: 8-3088

Research Interests: Dynamics of the atmosphere and ocean, energy transfer in systems with many degrees of freedom

Valentino Tosatti

Professor of Mathematics

Office: WWH 1001

Research Interests: Complex and differential geometry, geometric analysis and PDEs, and their connections to algebraic geometry and dynamical systems

Yuri Tschinkel

Professor of Mathematics

Office: WWH 617

Ext: 8-3145

Research Interests: Algebraic geometry, number theory, automorphic forms

Eric Vanden-Eijnden

Paulette Goddard Chair in Mathematics

Office: WWH 1002

Ext: 8-3154

Research Interests: Stochastic partial differential equations, statistical mechanics, turbulence theory

S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan

Professor of Mathematics and the Frank Jay Gould Professor of Science

Office: WWH 1313

Ext: 8-3334

Research Interests: Probability theory, stochastic processes, partial differential equations

Vlad Vicol

Professor of Mathematics

Office: WWH 902

Research Interests: Partial differential equations, fluid dynamics

Jonathan Weare

Professor of Mathematics

Office: WWH 1103

Research Interests: Applied probability, numerical analysis

Deane Yang

Professor of Mathematics

Office: 2MTC 864

Ext: 7-3540

Research Interests: Convex geometric analysis, Riemannian geometry, Partial differential equations

Yisong Yang

Professor of Mathematics

Office: 2MTC 850

Ext: 7-3427

Research Interests: Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, Mathematical Physics, Applied Mathematics

Lai-Sang Young

Silver Professor of Mathematics and the Henry & Lucy Moses Professor of Science

Office: WWH 702

Ext: 8-3286

Research Interests: Dynamical systems and ergodic theory

Robert Young

Professor of Mathematics

Office: WWH 601

Ext: 8-3156

Research Interests: Geometric group theory, metric geometry, and quantitative geometry

Laure Zanna

Joseph and Herbert Keller Professor in Applied Mathematics

Office: WWH 1116

Ext: 8 3180

Ofer Zeitouni

Global Distinguished Professor of Mathematics

Office: WWH 812

Ext: 8-3311

Gaoyong Zhang

Professor of Mathematics

Office: 2MTC 852

Ext: 7-3695

Research Interests: Convex geometry, Geometric analysis

Jun Zhang

Professor of Mathematics and Physics

Office: WWH 1118

Research Interests: Fluid dynamics, biophysics, complex systems

Yi Zhang

Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Atmosphere/Ocean Science

Office: WWH 909

Research Interests: Atmosphere/Ocean Science

Ralph Chikhany

Clinical Assistant Professor of Mathematics

Jose Diaz-Alban

Clinical Associate Professor of Mathematics

Office: 2MTC 878

Ext: 7-3850

Selin Kalaycioglu

Clinical Professor of Mathematics

Office: WWH 723

Ext: 8-3155

Petter N. Kolm

Clinical Professor of Mathematics

Office: WWH 520

Ext: 8-4855

Matthew Leingang

Clinical Professor of Mathematics

Office: WWH 718

Ext: 8-3107

Trushant Majmudar

Clinical Associate Professor of Mathematics

Office: WWH 719

Ext: 8-3096

Hesam Oveys

Clinical Associate Professor of Mathematics

Office: WWH 722

Ext: 8-3229

Liming Pang

Clinical Assistant Professor of Mathematics

Office: WWH 720

Fan Ny Shum

Clinical Associate Professor of Mathematics

Office: WWH 725

Ext: 8-3375

Michal Shavit

Courant Instructor

Mingtao Xia

Courant Instructor

Pu Yu

Courant Instructor

Kit Fine

Silver Professor of Philosophy and Mathematics

Jinzi Mac Huang

Assistant Professor Faculty Fellow of Mathematics, NYU Shanghai

Alexander Jones

Professor of the History of the Exact Sciences in Antiquity and Mathematics

Bhubaneswar Mishra

Professor of Computer Science, Mathematics, and Cell Biology

Efe A. Ok

Professor of Economics and Mathematics

Michael Overton

Silver Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics

Benjamin Peherstorfer

Associate Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics

Tamar Schlick

Professor of Chemistry, Mathematics, and Computer Science

Bob Shapley

Professor of Neural Science and Mathematics

Eero P. Simoncelli

Professor of Neural Science and Mathematics

Daniel Sodickson

Associate Professor of Radiology, Physiology, and Neuroscience

Alan Sokal

Professor of Physics and Mathematics

Katepalli R. Sreenivasan

Professor of Physics and Mathematics; Executive Vice Provost for Engineering and Applied Sciences, NYU

Pierre Tarrès

Professor of Mathematics, NYU Shanghai

Mark E. Tuckerman

Associate Professor of Chemistry and Mathematics

Wei Wu

Associate Professor of Mathematics, NYU Shanghai

Denis Zorin

Silver Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics

Marsha Berger

Silver Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics

Simeon M. Berman

Professor Emeritus of Mathematics

Stephen Childress

Professor Emeritus of Mathematics

Frederick P. Greenleaf

Professor Emeritus of Mathematics

Frank Hoppensteadt

Professor Emeritus of Mathematics

Richard Kleeman

Professor of Mathematics and Atmosphere/Ocean Science

Robert V. Kohn

Silver Professor of Mathematics

Erwin Lutwak

Professor Emeritus of Mathematics

Edward Miller

Professor of Mathematics

Charles M. Newman

Silver Professor of Mathematics

Albert B. J. Novikoff

Professor Emeritus of Mathematics

John Rinzel

Professor of Neural Science and Mathematics

Joel H. Spencer

Professor Emeritus of Mathematics and Computer Science

Harold Weitzner

Professor Emeritus of Mathematics

Olof Widlund

Professor Emeritus of Computer Science and Mathematics

Margaret H. Wright

Silver Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics

Peter D. Lax

Professor Emeritus of Mathematics

Andrew J. Majda

Professor Emeritus of Mathematics

Lu Ting

Professor Emeritus of Mathematics