# 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
* 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
* 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)
* 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
* Jingjing Liang, associate professor of forest ecology
* 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
* 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.
* 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