PhD Advisors

Tenure-Track Faculty

  • Juan de Pablo

    Executive Vice President for Global Science and Technology; Executive Dean of the NYU Tandon School of Engineering; Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

    University of California, Berkeley Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, 1990

    Email: j.de.pablo at nyu.edu
    Office: TBD 19

  • Greg Durrett

    Associate Professor of Computer Science and Data Science

    PhD in Computer Science from UC Berkeley, 2016

    Email: gd2691 at nyu.edu
    machine learning, large language models, natural language processing

  • Christopher Musco

    Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering

    Email: cpm303 at nyu.edu

  • Michael Overton

    Silver Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics

    Ph.D., Computer Science, Stanford University, USA, 1979

    Email: overton at cs.nyu.edu
    Office: WWH 429
    Ext: 8-3121
    Numerical analysis, linear algebra, optimization, and mathematical programming.

  • Daniele Panozzo

    Associate Professor of Computer Science

    Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Genoa, Italy, 2012

    Email: panozzo at nyu.edu
    Office: 60 Fifth Ave 504
    Ext: 8-3208
    Geometry Processing, Computer Graphics and Digital Fabrication

  • Benjamin Peherstorfer

    Associate Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics

    Ph.D., Computer Science, Technische Universität München, Germany, 2013

    Email: pehersto at cims.nyu.edu
    Office: WWH 421
    Ext: 8-3297
    Computational statistics, Bayesian inference, model reduction, high-dimensional approximation, machine learning, numerical analysis, numerical linear algebra

  • Florian Schaefer

    Assistant Professor of Computer Science

    PhD: Caltech, PhD in Applied and Computational Mathematics, 2021

    Scientific Computing, Numerical Analysis, Computational Statistics

  • Paul Torrens

    Professor of Computer Science and Engineering

    Email: pt50 at nyu.edu

  • Denis Zorin

    Silver Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics

    Ph.D., Computer Science, California Institute of Technology, USA, 1997

    Email: dzorin at cs.nyu.edu
    Office: 60 Fifth Ave 512
    Ext: 8-3405
    Computer graphics, geometric modeling, subdivision surfaces, multiresolution surface representations, fluid and solid simulation, and perceptually based methods for computer graphics.

Associated/Affiliated Faculty

  • Leslie Greengard

    Silver Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science

    Ph.D., Computer Science, Yale University, USA, 1987

    Email: greengard at cims.nyu.edu
    Office: WWH 1117
    Ext: 8-3306

  • Georg Stadler

    Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science

    Ph.D., Mathematics, University of Graz, Austria, 2004

    Email: stadler at cims.nyu.edu
    Office: WWH 1111