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