Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science - Affiliates of The School

Affiliates of The School

• Horst Ludwig Störmer I.I. Rabi professor of physics and applied physics, winner of 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics
• Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin Professor, Serbian physicist and physical chemist whose inventions include the Pupin coil
• Theodore Zoli, adjunct professor of civil engineering and structural engineer
• Charles F. Chandler American chemist, first Dean of Columbia University's School of Mines
• Harold Clayton Urey Professor, Nobel Laureate (1934), extensive development in the Manhattan Project, discoverer of Deuterium.
• Dimitris Anastassiou Professor of Electrical Engineering, developer of MPEG-2 technology
• Thomas Egleston, founder of Columbia School of Mines and professor of mining and metallurgy
• John B. Medaris Commanding General of U.S. Army Ordnance Missile Command (ABMA), planned Invasion of Normandy; professor
• Isidor Isaac Rabi Professor, Ph.D. from Columbia (1927), Nobel Laureate, Discoverer of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
• Mario Salvadori Architect, Structural Engineer, Professor (1940s–1990s), consultant on Manhattan Project, inventor of thin concrete shells
• Klaus Lackner, Professor of Environmental Engineering
• Chien-Shiung Wu "Chinese Marie Curie", first lady of physics, and Professor (1944–1980) who disproved "conservation of parity"
• Cyril M. Harris, Professor of Electrical Engineering and architect
• Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. Discovery of deuteron electric quadrupole moment, molecular beam spectroscopy. Professor (1940–1947), B.A. Ph.D. Columbia.
• Frank Press Geophysicist, work in seismic activity and wave theory, counsel to four Presidents. M.A., Ph.D. Columbia, and researcher.
• Leon M. Lederman A Nobel Laureate, discoverer of muon neutrino '62, bottom quark '77. Professor (1951–1989). M.A., Ph.D. Columbia
• Eric Kandel Biophysicist, Nobel Laureate, uncovered secrets of synapses. Professor Physicians & Surgeons (1974-); research with the Biomedical Engineering department.
• Joseph F. Traub Founding chairman of the computer science department at Columbia
• Emanuel Derman, Professor and Director of Columbia's financial engineering program, co-authors of the Financial Modelers' Manifesto
• Alfred Aho Canadian computer scientist widely known for his co-authorship of the AWK programming language
• Gertrude Fanny Neumark one of the world’s leading experts on doping wide-band semiconductors
• Charles Hard Townes professor and an American Nobel Prize-winning physicist who helped to invent the laser
• Jacob Millman Professor of Electrical Engineering, creator of Millman's Theorem
• John R. Dunning School Dean, physicist who played key roles in the development of the atomic bomb
• Steven M. Bellovin Professor of Computer Science
• Philip Kim Professor of Applied Physics and Mathematics
• Mihalis Yannakakis Professor of Computer Science, famous scholar noted for his work in the fields of Computational complexity theory, Databases
• Maria Chudnovsky, professor of operations research and industrial engineering
• David E Keyes, professor of applied mathematics
• Awi Federgruen, Affiliate Professor of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering
• Nicholas F. Maxemchuk Professor of Electrical Engineering
• Clifford Stein Professor of operations research and industrial engineering
• Ronald Breslow Professor of chemical engineering, now University Professor
• Santiago Calatrava (Honorary Doctorate, 2007), world renowned architect, sculptor and structural engineer, designer of Montjuic Communications Tower and World Trade Center Transportation Hub
• Ferdinand Freudenstein, Higgins Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering
• Henry Spotnitz, Affiliate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
• Thomas Christian Kavanagh, professor of civil engineering
• Vladimir Vapnik, Professor of Computer Science and co-developer of Vapnik–Chervonenkis theory
• Jaron Lanier, visiting scholar at the Computer Science department
• Sheldon Weinig, Professor of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering and founder of Materials Research Corporation
• Man-Chung Tang, professor of civil engineering and former chairman of American Society of Civil Engineers
• Van C. Mow, professor of biomedical engineering and member of the National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine
• Matt Berg, member of Mechanical Engineering Department research group and one of Time 100 Most Influential People in the World