# List of NYU Tandon School of Engineering people

The following is a partial list of notable NYU Tandon School of Engineering alumni, and current and former faculty. Also see List of New York University alumni.

## Notable faculty

* Stephen Arnold
* Boris Aronov, Sloan Research Fellow
* Dan Bailey – fly-shop owner, innovative fly developer and staunch Western conservationist
* Barouh Berkovits - invented the cardiac defibrillator and artificial cardiac pacemaker.
* Maureen Braziel
* George Bugliarello - Chairman of the Board of Science and Technology for International Development of the National Academy of Sciences; of the National Medal of Technology Nomination Evaluation Committee; and of the National Academy of Engineering Council's International Affairs Committee
* Charles Camarda
* Justin Cappos - Professor in the department of Computer Science and Engineering; data-security software developer
* Ju-Chin Chu – Chemical engineer and father of Steven Chu. He became an Academia Sinica member in 1964.
* Francis Crick – co-discoverer of DNA structure; awarded Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
* Paul M. Doty – emeritus Harvard Mallinckrodt Professor of Biochemistry; specialized in the physical properties of macromolecules; involved in peace and security policy issues
* R. Luke DuBois – composer, performer, conceptual new media artist, programmer, record producer, pedagogue
* Paul Peter Ewald – inventor of X-ray diffraction method for determination of molecular structure; Physics Department chair until 1957
* Leopold B. Felsen
* Antonio Ferri - leader of a team that created the first practical hypersonic tunnel heater, used to heat air for discharge into a wind tunnel.
* R. M. Foster – Bell Labs mathematician whose work was of significance regarding electronic filters for use on telephone lines.
* Herbert Freeman
* Siddharth Garg - cybersecurity researcher, associate professor
* Eugene D. Genovese – historian of the American South and slavery
* Gordon Gould – former Polytechnic professor; inventor of the laser
* David and Gregory Chudnovsky – mathematicians who held the record for number of digits of pi in 1989; now run the Institute for Mathematics and Advanced Supercomputing at Polytechnic
* Leslie Greengard
* S. L. Greitzer – mathematician; founding chairman of the US Mathematical Olympiad; publisher of the pre-college mathematics journal Arbelos
* Charles William Hanko – historian and politician
* David Harker – physicist; X-ray crystallographer; discoverer of the Donnay-Harker law and Harker-Kasper inequalities
* Paul Horn
* Jerry MacArthur Hultin
* Katherine Isbister
* Myles Jackson
* Andrew Kalotay
* Maurice Karnaugh – inventor of Karnaugh Maps (K-Maps) while at Bell Labs; professor at the Westchester campus 1980-1999; retired
* Edward Kimbark – power engineer
* Parke Kolbe
* Joseph Wood Krutch – writer, critic, and naturalist
* Erich E. Kunhardt
* Yann LeCun
* Paul Levinson – author of The Plot To Save Socrates; media commentator on The O'Reilly Factor; Visiting Professor at the Philosophy and Technology Study Center at Polytechnic, 1987–1988
* Frederick B. Llewellyn – electrical engineer
* Erwin Lutwak - mathematician
* Rudolph Marcus – former Polytechnic professor; Nobel Prize in chemistry; National Medal of Science winner.
* Nathan Marcuvitz – electrical engineering pioneer
* Herman F. Mark – founder of the Polymer Research Institute; National Medal of Science winner.
* Phil Maymin - Assistant Professor of Finance and Risk Engineering; Libertarian Party House candidate in Connecticut
* Warren L. McCabe - American chemical engineer and is considered as one of the founding fathers of the profession of chemical engineering
* David Miller
* Elliott Waters Montroll – scientist and mathematician
* Samuel Morse – co-inventor of the Morse code; contributor to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs
* J. H. Mulligan, Jr. – namesake of IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal
* Tsuneo Nakahara
* Donald Othmer – co-author of Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology; inventor of the Othmer Still, a laboratory device for vapor-liquid equilibrium measurements
* Charles G. Overberger
* Athanasios Papoulis – pioneer in the field of stochastic processes
* Leonard Peikoff – former philosophy professor; founder of the Ayn Rand Institute
* David J. Pine
* John R. Ragazzini
* Theodore Rappaport
* John Howard Raymond
* Hans Reissner – German aeronautical engineer
* Keith W. Ross - Computer science professor
* Murray Rothbard – former economics professor; key figure in libertarian movement
* Michael Shelley – Professor of Mechanical Engineering
* Samuel Sheldon - IEEE president.
* Joshua W. Sill – Professor of Mathematics; became the youngest General in the Civil War; namesake of Fort Sill
* Aleksandra Smiljanić
* Joel B. Snyder - IEEE president
* K. R. Sreenivasan
* Torsten Suel – pioneer of search engine algorithms
* Jerome Swartz - developed early optical strategies for barcode scanning technologies
* Nassim Nicholas Taleb – epistemologist author of The Black Swan; works in the risk engineering department
* James Tenney – composer; music theorist
* John G. Truxal
* Ernst Weber – founder of the Microwave Research Institute; first IEEE President; National Medal of Science winner.
* Jack Keil Wolf – researcher in information theory and coding theory; Guggenheim fellow
* Ta-You Wu – nuclear physicist; President of Academia Sinica
* Dante C. Youla – namesake of Youla–Kucera parametrization in control theory
* Louis Zukofsky – second-generation American modernist poet
* David Lefer
* Robert Ubell
* Beth Simone Noveck

## Notable alumni

| Name | Class year | Notability |
| James Truslow Adams | 1898 | Writer, historian |
| Benjamin Adler | | Helped develop commercial television |
| Ali Akansu | 1983, 1987 | Turkish American scientist; known for his contributions to the theory and applications of sub-band and wavelet transforms; professor at NJIT |
| Fred Amoroso | | Chairman of Yahoo!; former President, CEO, and director of Rovi Corporation |
| Charles E. Anderson | 1948 | First African American to receive a Ph.D. in Meteorology |
| Bishnu S. Atal | 1968 | Researcher in linear predictive coding; joined Bell Laboratories in 1961; made major contributions in the field of speech analysis, synthesis, and coding, including low bit-rate speech coding and automatic speech recognition; retired in 2002 to become affiliate professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington |
| Franklin Bartlett | 1865 | U.S. Representative from New York |
| Jacob Bekenstein | 1966, 1969, 1971 | Namesake of Bekenstein bound in general relativity; member of Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities; Laureate of the Wolf Prize in Physics for work on black holes |
| David Bergstein | 1982 | Entrepreneur; film producer; chairman of THINKFilm and Capitol Films |
| Barouh Berkovits | 1956 | Invented the cardiac defibrillator and artificial cardiac pacemaker |
| Denis Blackmore | 1965, 1969 | Physicist; contributed to the foundation of black hole thermodynamics; professor at New Jersey Institute of Technology |
| Israel Borovich | 1967, 1968, 1971, Hon 2005 | Chairman, El Al Israel Airlines |
| Ursula Burns | 1980 | CEO, Xerox Corporation |
| Charles Camarda | 1974 | NASA scientist and mission specialist on the Return to Flight voyage of the shuttle Discovery |
| Hugh John Casey | | Chairman of the New York City Transit Authority; chief engineer of the Army |
| K. Mani Chandy | 1968 | Simon Ramo Professor of Computer Science and Deputy chair of engineering at the California Institute of Technology |
| Francesco DeMaria | 1951 | Italian-American chemist; professor at University of Connecticut |
| Bern Dibner | 1921 | Inventor of the first solderless electrical connector; founder of the Burndy Corporation |
| John Dionisio | | Chairman and CEO of AECOM |
| Dot da Genius | 2008 | Hip-hop producer |
| Gertrude B. Elion | | Former doctoral student at Polytechnic; awarded 1988 Nobel Prize in medicine |
| George Ellner | | Developed the use of ultraviolet light for sterilization |
| Joel S. Engel | 1964 | Engineer, known for fundamental contributions to the development of cellular networks |
| Leopold B. Felsen | 1959, 1961, 1964 | Electrical engineer; member of the National Academy of Engineering; named a life fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; Dean of Engineering 1974-1978 at Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn; professor at Boston University College of Engineering |
| Antonio Ferri | | Leader of a team that created the first practical hypersonic tunnel heater, used to heat air for discharge into a wind tunnel |
| Paul Ferri | | Founder of Matrix Partners |
| Charles Ranlett Flint | 1868 | Businessman; founder of the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company, which later became IBM |
| Bruno A. Boley | | Dean of Engineering at Northwestern University |
| Fazlollah Reza | 1950 | Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Elmer L. Gaden | | Russ Prize winner |
| Torunn Atteraas Garin | | Oversaw the development of the artificial sweetener aspartame and was a national spokesperson for it; developed nontoxic processes to create food colorings and remove caffeine from coffee |
| Carl Gatto | 1960 | Republican member of the Alaska House of Representatives |
| Norman Gaylord | 1949, 1950 | Industrial chemist and research scientist; played a key role in the development of the oxygen-permeable contact lens |
| Erol Gelenbe | 1968, 1972 | Electrical engineer; Electrical and Computer Engineering professor at University of Michigan; Electrical and Computer Engineering professor at Duke University; Electrical and Computer Engineering professor at Imperial College London |
| Bancroft Gherardi, Jr. | 1891, 1933H | Electrical engineer; pioneer in early telephone systems |
| John Gilbert | 1953 | Inventor of non-stick coating as an application of Teflon |
| Tetsugen Bernard Glassman | 1960 | Jewish-American Zen Buddhist roshi |
| Samuel D. Goldberg | | Revolutionized dentistry by inventing local anesthetics and making Novocain commercially feasible |
| Steven L. Goldman | 1962 | Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at Lehigh University |
| Martha Greenblatt | 1967 | Chemist, researcher, and faculty member at Rutgers University |
| Jay Greene | 1964 | Former Chief Engineer of NASA Johnson Space Center |
| Leonard Greene | | Inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame; inventor and aerodynamics engineer who held more than 200 patents, many aviation-related |
| Clayton Hamilton | 1900 | Drama critic; professor at Columbia University |
| Fredric J. Harris | 1961 | Expert on DSP and communication systems |
| Charles Waldo Haskins | | Founder of Haskins and Sells, which later merged with Deloitte |
| F. Augustus Heinze | | Colorful Montana entrepreneur |
| Nicholas Hoff | | Structural analyst whose calculations became the international guideposts in aircraft design |
| Edward Everett Horton | 1908 | Character actor, appeared in The Front Page, Top Hat, Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Pocketful of Miracles |
| Ta-Lin Hsu | 1968 | Electrical engineer; Chairman of H&Q Asia Pacific; on the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Advisory Board at the University of California, Berkeley; Advisory Board Member of the Haas School of Business at U.C. Berkeley |
| Frances Hugle | | Scientist, engineer, inventor; contributed to the understanding of semiconductors, integrated circuitry, and the unique electrical principles of microscopic materials |
| Joseph J. Jacobs | 1937, 1939, 1942 | Founder of Jacobs Engineering Group |
| Tudor Jenks | 1874 | Author, poet, artist, editor, journalist, lawyer |
| Peter Grant Jordan | | President at Tarrant County College |
| Leopold Just | | Designed virtually every major bridge and tunnel in New York City, as well as Washington’s Metro system and the Ohio and Connecticut Turnpikes |
| Ephraim Katzir | Post-doc | President of Israel; biophysicist |
| Thomas Kelly | 1958 | Scientist, father of lunar module |
| Raymond E. Kirk | | Editor, with Othmer, of the industry-standard Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology |
| Murray S. Klamkin | 1947 | Mathematician |
| Eugene Kleiner | 1948 | Honored by the U.S. Postal Service with a commemorative stamp for developing and manufacturing revolutionary computer chips |
| Edward R. Knowles | | Designed searchlights for the U.S. Navy; invented the storage battery |
| William B. Kouwenhoven | 1906 | Inventor of closed-chest cardiac defibrillator; recipient of Edison Medal; professor and dean of engineering at Johns Hopkins University |
| Erich E. Kunhardt | 1976 | Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology, University of Texas, and NYU-Poly |
| Norman Lamm | | Chancellor and President of Yeshiva University |
| Eugene Lang | 1940-41 | Millionaire; industrialist; Chair Emeritus of Swarthmore College; founder and Chair Emeritus of the Conference of Board Chairs of Liberal Arts Colleges; board member of the Columbia University Business School; board member of New School University |
| Yehuda (Leo) Levi | 1964 | Rector of Jerusalem College of Technology |
| Robert H. Lieberman | 1962 | Novelist and film director; long-time member of the Physics faculty at Cornell University |
| Hung-Chang Lin | 1956 | Inventor |
| O. Winston Link | 1937 | Pioneering photographer |
| Charles Battell Loomis | | Author |
| William H. Maddren | | Physician; fourth head coach of the Johns Hopkins University lacrosse team, 1897-1901 |
| Nathan Marcuvitz | | Head of the experimental group of the Radiation Laboratory (MIT) |
| Christos V. Massalas | 1976 | Greek academic working in the fields of mathematics and materials science |
| George W. Melville | 1861 | Civil War-era engineer for the Navy; awarded Congressional Gold Medal; namesake of several ships |
| Ami Miron | | An American Israeli entrepreneur and technology developer; developed and patented the first picture-in-picture for Philips Electronics; led the development of the first high-definition television (HDTV) system in the U.S., for which he received two Technology and Engineering Emmy Awards; founded software networking company MoreCom; president and founder of AM Partners |
| Stephen Morse | 1963 | Architect of the Intel 8086 chip |
| Paolo A. Nespoli | 1988, 1989 | Italian astronaut, mission specialist of STS-120 Space Shuttle mission |
| A. Michael Noll | 1971 | Professor Emeritus and dean at the Annenberg School for Communication at University of Southern California |
| Joseph Owades | 1944, 1950 | Brewing pioneer, inventor of lite beer |
| Frank Padavan | 1956 | Republican New York state senator |
| Judea Pearl | 1965, Ph.D | Professor of Computer Science and Statistics and Director of the Cognitive Systems Laboratory at UCLA; awarded Turing Prize in 2011 |
| Martin L. Perl | 1948, Hon 1996 | Awarded 1982 Wolf Prize in physics and 1995 Nobel Prize in physics; member of National Academy of Sciences |
| Peter Pershan | 1956 | Physicist; Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science, in both the Physics Department and Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University; recipient of 1988 Rothschild Prize, 2005 Israel Prize, and 2012 Wolf Prize in Physics |
| Martin Pope | 1950 | Physical chemist and professor emeritus at New York University |
| George Preti | | Analytical organic chemist, Monell Chemical Senses Center |
| Stav Prodromou | 1967, 1970 | Executive Advisor, Alien Technology |
| Buddy Ratner | 1972 | A founding father of modern bioengineering; Fellow of the American Association For the Advancement of Science |
| Peter P. Regna | | Helped discover Terramyscin, an antibiotic effective against more than 100 diseases |
| Mark Ronald | 1968 | Former President and CEO, BAE Systems Inc. |
| Jack Ruina | 1957, 1961 | Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering at MIT; instrumental in establishing the MIT Security Studies Program and its first director; professor at Brown University and the University of Illinois |
| Richard Santulli | 1966 | CEO, NetJets |
| Martin Schechter | | Order of British Columbia recipient for HIV research |
| George Segal | | Sculptor of monochromatic, cast plaster figures |
| Hugh Seidman | 1961 | Taught writing at the University of Wisconsin, Yale University, Columbia University, the College of William and Mary, and The New School |
| Seymour Shapiro | 1956 PhD | Synthesized phenformin |
| Len Shustek | | Chairman of the board of trustees of the Computer History Museum |
| Ronald Silverman | 1979, 1990 | Professor of ophthalmology at Weill Cornell Medical College |
| Joel B. Snyder | | IEEE president |
| Robert J. Stevens | 1985 | Chairman, President and CEO of Lockheed Martin |
| Admiral Charles F. Stokes | 1880 | Member of the first Board of Regents of the American College of Surgeons; Surgeon General of the United States Navy; President Theodore Roosevelt's personal physician |
| Jerome Swartz | 1968 | Co-founded Symbol Technologies; professor at Stony Brook University in the departments of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Applied Math & Statistics; professor at NYU-Poly; board member at Stony Brook University and NYU-Poly; trustee at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and at the University of California at San Diego |
| Mario Tchou | | Led a group of scientists from the University of Pisa to invent, in 1959, the ELEA 9003, Italy's first computer |
| David J. Thomson | 1967, 1971 | Electrical engineer; professor at Princeton University, Stanford University, MIT, University of Cambridge, and Queen’s University; Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada |
| Don Torrieri | 1966 | Research engineer; Fellow of the US Army Research Laboratory |
| William Tubby | 1875 | |
| Hermann Viets | 1965, 1966, 1970 | President of Milwaukee School of Engineering; Professor of Engineering at Wright State University; professor and Associate Dean for Research at West Virginia University; Dean of Engineering at University of Rhode Island |
| Pat Villani | 1976, 1982 | Computer programmer |
| Steve Wallach | 1966 | Adviser to Centerpoint Venture partners, Sevin-Rosen, and Interwest; consultant to the United States Department of Energy Advanced Scientific Computing program at Los Alamos |
| Sang Whang | 1956, 1966 | Korean American community leader and politician in Florida |
| Robert Anton Wilson | attended 1952–57 | Author of 35 influential books |
| Ronald R. Yager | 1958 | Professor at Pennsylvania State University; Visiting Researcher and scholar at University of California, Berkeley |
| Leonard M. Pomata | | Virginia's secretary of technology |