- Peter Lax
Peter David Lax (born May 1, 1926, Budapest, Hungary) is a highly-respected mathematician working in the areas of pure and applied mathematics. He has made important contributions to integrable systems, fluid dynamics and shock waves, solitonic physics, hyperbolic conservation laws, and mathematical and scientific computing, among other fields. Lax was born in Budapest, Hungary, and moved with his parents (Klara Kornfield and Henry Lax) to the United States in 1941.
- Jefferson Y. Han
Jefferson Y. Han is a research scientist for New York University's (NYU) Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, and one of the main developers of an "interface-free" touch-driven computer screen. The screen is based on "multi-touch sensing," which is similar to existing touch-screen interfaces but able to recognize multiple points of contact. Jeff Han also works on other projects in the fields of autonomous robot navigation, motion capture, real-time computer graphics, …
- Richard Courant
Richard Courant (born January 8, 1888 - January 27, 1972) was a German American mathematician.
- Louis Nirenberg
Louis Nirenberg is a Canadian-born mathematician, known for his work on partial differential equations. He was born in Hamilton, Ontario. He studied as an undergraduate at McGill University, and as a graduate and doctoral student at New York University. He became a professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. He has received many honours and awards, including the Crafoord Prize, the Bôcher Prize, and the National Medal of Science.
- Joel Spencer
Joel Spencer (born April 20, 1946) is an American mathematician. He is a combinatorialist who has worked on probabilistic methods in combinatorics and on Ramsey theory. He received his doctorate from Harvard University in 1970, under the supervision of Andrew Gleason. He is currently (as of 2007) a professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University.
- Jeff Cheeger
Jeff Cheeger (b. December 1, 1943, Brooklyn, New York City), is a mathematician. Cheeger is professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University in New York City. His main interests are differential geometry and its applications to topology and analysis.
- S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan
Sathamangalam Ravi Srinivasa Varadhan is an Indian-American probabilist. He was born January 2 1940 in Madras (Chennai), India. He received his undergraduate degree in 1959 from Presidency College, Madras and his doctorate in 1963 from the Indian Statistical Institute under Calyampudi R. Rao. Since 1963, he has worked at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University, where he is currently (as of 2007) a professor.
- Jack Schwartz
Jacob T. Schwartz (Jack) is an United States mathematician, computer scientist, and professor of computer science at the New York University Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. He was the designer of the SETL programming language. He received his B.Sc. (1949) from the City College of New York and his M.A. (1949) and Ph.D. (1951) from Yale University. He was elected to the National Academy of Science in 1976, and to the National Academy of Engineering in 2000.
- Cathleen Synge Morawetz
Cathleen Synge Morawetz (born May 5, 1923 in Toronto, Canada) is a mathematician. Her father, John Lighton Synge was an Irish physicist, specializing in the geometry of general relativity. Her childhood was split between Ireland and Canada. Morawetz graduated from the University of Toronto in 1945 and received her master's degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She earned her Ph.D. at New York University, …
- Daniel W. Stroock
Daniel W. Stroock (born March 20, 1940 in New York City) is an American probabilist. He received his undergraduate degreee from Harvard University in 1962 and his doctorate from Rockefeller University in 1966. He has taught at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and the University of Colorado, Boulder and is currently Simons Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is known for his work with S. R. S. Varadhan on diffusion processes, …
- David Korn
David Korn is an American computer programmer, who is probably best known for creating the Korn shell ("ksh"), a command line shell interface/programming language. The Korn shell is a de facto standard for UNIX-like systems and many other environments. David Korn received his undergraduate degree in mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1965 and his Ph.D. in applied mathematics from NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences in 1969.
- Luis Caffarelli
Luis A. Caffarelli (born December 8 1948 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine-United States mathematician and leader in the field of partial differential equations and their applications. Caffarelli obtained his Masters of Science (1968) and Ph.D. (1972) at the University of Buenos Aires. He currently holds the Sid Richardson Chair at the University of Texas at Austin. He also has been a professor at the University of Minnesota, the University of Chicago, …
- Felix Otto
Felix Otto (born May 19, 1966 in Munich) is a German mathematician. He studied mathematics at the University of Bonn, finishing his Ph.D. thesis in 1993. After postdoctoral studies at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University and at Carnegie Mellon University, in 1997 he became a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 1999 he became professor for applied mathematics at the University of Bonn.
- Achi Brandt
Achi Brandt (born 1938, in Givat-Brener, Israel) is an Israeli mathematician, noted for his pioneering contributions to multigrid methods. Brandt got his Ph.D. degree at the Weizmann Institute of Science in 1965, with a thesis on numerical methods in hydrodynamics and magnetohydrodynamics. He is a faculty at that institute, and has held numerous visiting positions at universities in the United States, including the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, …
- Victor Shoup
Victor Shoup is a computer scientist and mathematician. He obtained a PhD in computer science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1989, and is currently a Professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. He has previously held positions at AT&T Bell Labs, the University of Toronto, Saarland University, and the IBM Zurich Research Lab. Shoup's main research interests are computer algorithms relating to number theory, algebra, …
- Linda Keen
Linda Jo Goldway Keen (born 9 August 1940 in New York City, New York) is a mathematician. After receiving her BS degree from the City College of New York, she studied at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and earned her PhD in 1964. She wrote her thesis on Riemann surfaces under the direction of Lipman Bers at NYU. In addition to studying Riemann surfaces, Keen has worked in hyperbolic geometry, Kleinian groups and Fuchsian groups, complex analysis, …
- Arvind Raghunathan
Arvind Raghunathan is a Managing Director and Head of Global Arbitrage at Deutsche Bank, where he has worked since 1995. Here, he manages a large part of the bank’s proprietary trading and investments in a variety of global financial instruments. Industry publications have named him several times as one of the world’s top traders. Born and raised in India, Raghunathan attended the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT Madras), …
- Wilhelm Magnus
Wilhelm Magnus was a mathematician. He made important contributions to combinatorial group theory, elliptic functions, and the study of tessellations. In 1931, he received his PhD from the University of Frankfurt, in Germany. His thesis, written under the direction of Max Dehn, was entitled "Über Unendlich diskontinuierliche Gruppen von einer definirenden Relation (der Freiheitssatz)". Magnus was a faculty member in Frankfurt from 1933 until 1938.
- Louis de Branges de Bourcia
Louis de Branges de Bourcia (born August 21, 1932 in Paris, France) is a French-American mathematician. He is the Edward C. Elliott Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. He is best known for proving the long-standing Bieberbach conjecture in 1984, now called de Branges' theorem. He claims to have proved several important conjectures in mathematics, including the Riemann Hypothesis.
- Demetrios Christodoulou
Demetrios Christodoulou (b. October 19, 1951) is a Greek mathematical physicist, well known in the field of general relativity for his proof, together with Sergiu Klainerman, of the nonlinear stability of the Minkowski vacuum. Christodoulou was born in Athens and received his doctorate from Princeton University under the direction of John Archibald Wheeler. He has taught at Cal Tech, Syracuse University, and Princeton, …
- James Hyman
Dr. James "Mac" Hyman (born 1950) is an applied mathematician at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the United States. He received his undergraduate degree from Tulane University and his PhD from NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Dr. Hyman served as president of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) in 2003-2005.
- Josh Fisher
Joseph A. (Josh) Fisher is a Hewlett-Packard Senior Fellow. He worked at HP Labs from 1990 through 2006 in instruction-level parallelism and in custom embedded VLIW processors and their compilers. Fisher retired from active employment at HP in 2006. Fisher studied at the Courant Institute of NYU (B.A., M.A., and then Ph.D. in 1979), where he devised the Trace Scheduling compiler algorithm and coined the term Instruction-level parallelism.
- Allan Birnbaum
Allan Birnbaum (May 27, 1923 - July 1, 1976) was an American statistician who contributed to statistical inference, foundations of statistics, statistical genetics, statistical psychology, and history of statistics. Birnbaum was born in San Francisco. His parents were Russian-born Orthodox Jews. He studied mathematics at the University of California, doing a premedical programme at the same time. After taking a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1945, …
- Jacques Bensimon
Jacques Bensimon , IPM's Chief Technology Officer, has been in the IT consulting business for over 25 years. As CTO, Jacques directs all of IPM's technology-based activities, including: reviewing and recommending new technologies, products and services, overseeing the selection of research projects, and deploying major technology initiatives.
- Gang Tian
Gang Tian (1958 -) is a Chinese mathematician and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is known for his contributions to geometric analysis and quantum cohomology, among other fields. He was born in Nanjing, China, but now divides his time between Princeton University and Peking University.
- Mehryar Mohri
- Ouri Wolfson
- Bud Mishra
Prof. Bud Mishra is a professor of computer science and mathematics at NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and a professor of cell biology at NYU School of Medicine. He founded the NYU/Courant Bioinformatics Group, a multi-disciplinary group working on research at the interface of computer science and biology.
- Charles Peskin
CHARLES S. PESKIN is Professor of Mathematics and Neural Science . His field of research is mathematical modeling and computer simulation applied to biology and medicine. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a former MacArthur Fellow, and a recipient of the Mayor's Award for Excellence in Science and Technology, as well as the Great Teacher Award of the NYU Alumni Association.
- Olof Widlund
- Paul Tiffany
Paul Wright is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at University of California, Berkeley. Recently, he also became Co-Chair of the Management of Technology Program, a collaboration with the Walter A. Haas School of Business at Berkeley. He was previously a Professor of Computer Science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, and Director of their Robotics and Manufacturing Laboratory (1987-1991).
- Maria Reznikoff
- Socrates Ioannidis
Socrates Ioannidis Principal & Director of Quantitative Research Socrates Ioannidis is a principal and director of quantitative research at HB & Co. Dr. Ioannidis is responsible along with Messrs. Hyman and Beck for research activities as they pertain to product development.
- Brian Berns
Brian Berns , Chief Operating Officer Brian Berns joined Ericom in 2006. Brian is a software industry veteran with over twenty years of experience, including executive positions at Fair Isaac Corporation (FIC) and Brio Software (now Hyperion). Additionally, Brian has been the founding member of several successful software start-ups.
- Konstantin Weiner
Konstantin Weiner , Chief Information Officer Like many technology experts, Mr. Weiner thrives on "bringing order from chaos," enabling business organizations to tap into technology that will streamline, standardize and improve the efficiency of their operations. He has been contributing his professional enthusiasm and expertise to AmericaOne since May 2003.
- Paul Iter
Paul Iter Vice President of Engineering piter@siliconspace.com Paul Iter has extensive experience in architecting and implementing distributed systems in the areas of Decision Support, Data Analysis, Text Analytics, and eCommerce. As a Web Architect at DataQuick, Inc., Paul focused his efforts on solving information problems related to acquisition, enhancement, and searching of very large sets of real estate data.
- Kurt Maly
Kurt Maly Kurt J. Maly received the Dipl. Ing. degree from the Technical University of Vienna, Austria, and M.S. and Ph.D. Degrees from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, New York.
- Vijay Karamcheti
Vijay Karamcheti , Assistant Professor of Computer Science in the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. He received his undergraduate degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, his master's from the University of Texas at Austin, and his doctoral degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he was involved in the Concert System and Fast Messages projects.
- Eric Hoffert
Eric Hoffert has more than twenty years of experience leading new business, product, and technology development in enterprise software, collaboration, and rich media.
- Andrew Valenti
Andy is the founder and principal consultant of a NYC/Boston consultancy providing project management and product development services to global financial institutions. His particular skill is working with business users, technology groups, and application vendors so that critical business projects are delivered on time, within budget and with a satisfied user community. Andy is also a Graduate Lecturer at Northeastern University, School of Professional and Continuing Studies in project . . .