List of NYU Courant Institute people
# List of NYU Courant Institute people

## Directors

* Richard Courant (1935–1958)
* James J. Stoker (1958–1966)
* Kurt O. Friedrichs (1966–1967)
* Jürgen Moser (1967–1970)
* Louis Nirenberg (1970–1972)
* Peter Lax (1972–1980)
* S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan (1980–1984)
* Cathleen Synge Morawetz (1984–1988)
* Henry McKean (1988–1994)
* David W. McLaughlin (1994–2002)
* Charles M. Newman (2002–2006)
* Leslie Greengard (2006–2011)
* Gerard Ben Arous (2011–present)

## Notable Courant faculty

This is a small selection of Courant's famous faculty over the years and a few of their distinctions:

* Gérard Ben Arous, Davidson Prize
* Marsha Berger, NASA Software of the Year, National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Sciences
* Fedor Bogomolov
* Richard Bonneau
* Luis Caffarelli, Wolf Prize
* Sylvain Cappell, Guggenheim Fellowship
* Sourav Chatterjee, Davidson Prize
* Jeff Cheeger, Veblen Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, Max Planck Research Prize
* Steven Childress, Guggenheim Fellowship, American Physical Society Fellow
* Demetrios Christodoulou, 1993 MacArthur Fellow
* Richard J. Cole, Guggenheim Fellowship
* Martin Davis, Steele Prize
* Percy Deift, George Pólya Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Science
* Kurt O. Friedrichs, 1976 National Medal of Science
* Paul Garabedian, NAS Prize in Applied Mathematics, National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Science
* Leslie Greengard, Steele Prize, Packard Foundation Fellowship, NSF Presidential Young Investigator, National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Sciences
* Mikhail Gromov, 2009 Abel Prize, Wolf Prize, Steele Prize, Kyoto Prize, Balzan Prize,
* Larry Guth
* Helmut Hofer, Ostrowski Prize, National Academy of Sciences
* Fritz John, 1984 MacArthur Fellow
* Joseph B. Keller, 1988 National Medal of Science, Wolf Prize
* Michel Kervaire
* Subhash Khot, 2010 Alan T. Waterman Award
* Morris Kline
* Peter Lax, Abel Prize winner, 1986 National Medal of Science, Steele Prize, Wolf Prize, Norbert Wiener Prize
* Lin Fanghua, Bôcher Memorial Prize, American Academy of Arts and Science
* Wilhelm Magnus
* Andrew Majda, NAS Prize in Applied Mathematics, John von Neumann Prize (SIAM)
* Henry McKean, National Academy of Science, American Academy of Arts and Science
* David W. McLaughlin, National Academy of Science, American Academy of Arts and Science
* Bud Mishra, Association for Computing Machinery Fellow
* Cathleen Synge Morawetz, 1998 National Medal of Science, Steele Prize, Birkhoff Prize, Noether Lecturer, National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Science
* Jürgen Moser, Wolf Prize, James Craig Watson Medal
* Assaf Naor, European Mathematical Society Prize, Packard Fellowship, Salem Prize, Bôcher Memorial Prize, Blavatnik Award
* Charles Newman, National Academy of Science, American Academy of Arts and Science
* Louis Nirenberg, 1995 Crafoord Prize, National Medal of Science, Steele Prize, Bôcher Memorial Prize, Chern Medal, National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Science
* Laxmi Parida, IBM Master Inventor and ISCB Fellow
* Charles S. Peskin, 1983 MacArthur Fellow, Birkhoff Prize, National Medal of Science
* Amir Pnueli, National Academy of Engineering, Israel Prize, Turing Award, Association for Computing Machinery Fellow
* Peter Sarnak
* Jack Schwartz, developed the programming language SETL at NYU
* Michael J. Shelley, American Physical Society Fellow, François Naftali Frenkiel Award (APS)
* Victor Shoup, with Ronald Cramer developed the Cramer–Shoup cryptosystem
* Jonathan Sondow
* Joel Spencer
* K. R. Sreenivasan
* S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan, Abel Prize winner, Steele Prize, National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Science, Fellow of the Royal Society, National Medal of Science
* Daniel Stein, Fellow of the American Physical Society, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
* Demetri Terzopoulos FRS FRSC, Guggenheim Fellow, IEEE and ACM Fellow, Academy Award for Technical Achievement, IEEE Computer Pioneer Award
* Akshay Venkatesh, Salem Prize, Packard Fellowship
* Olof B. Widlund
* Margaret H. Wright, National Academy of Science, National Academy of Engineering
* Lai-Sang Young, Satter Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, American Academy of Arts and Science
* Theodore Rappaport, founder of NYU Wireless, Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors

## Notable Courant alumni

This is a small selection of Courant's alumni:

* Anjelina Belakovskaia (Masters in Finance 2001), U.S. Women's Chess Champion
* Anita Borg (PhD 1981), founding director of the Institute for Women and Technology (IWT)
* Ivan Corwin (PhD 2011), professor at Columbia University
* Charles Epstein (PhD 1983), hyperbolic geometry
* Corwin Hansch (PhD 1944), statistics
* Joseph B. Keller, 1988 National Medal of Science, Wolf Prize
* Barbara Keyfitz (PhD 1970), Director of the Fields Institute
* Sergiu Klainerman (PhD 1978), Professor at Princeton
* Morris Kline (PhD 1936), NYU professor (1938–1975)
* David Korn (PhD 1969), creator of the KornShell
* Martin Kruskal (PhD 1952), National Medal of Science, co-discoverer of solitons and the inverse scattering method for solving KdV
* Peter Lax (PhD 1949), recipient of the Abel Prize, National Medal of Science, Steele Prize, Wolf Prize, Norbert Wiener Prize
* Chen Li-an (PhD 1968), Taiwanese Minister of Defence
* Louis Nirenberg (PhD 1949), Crafoord Prize, Bôcher Memorial Prize, National Medal of Science, Chern Medal
* Brian J. McCartin (PhD 1981), 2010 Chauvenet Prize
* Cathleen Morawetz (PhD 1950), National Medal of Science, Birkhoff Prize, Lifetime Achievement Award from the AMS, professor emeritus at Courant Institute
* Stanley Osher (PhD 1966), Level Set method, professor at University of California, Los Angeles
* George C. Papanicolaou (PhD 1969), professor at Stanford University
* Susan Mary Puglia (BA in Computer Science and Math), Vice President at IBM
* Gary Robinson, software engineer noted for anti-spam algorithms
* Shmuel Weinberger (PhD 1982), topology and geometry; Professor at University of Chicago
* Jacob Wolfowitz (PhD 1942)
* Wojciech Zaremba (PhD 2016), co-founder of OpenAI
