Faculty Recognition

The Institute's faculty have received many diverse awards for their scientific research and service to the community at large. Prizes from professional societies, foundations, and government organizations provide one form of recognition. Election to elite scientific societies serves as another type of recognition. A partial list of our scientific awards can be found in the Scientific Recognition table below.

Several members of the faculty have also been active in the governance of scientific organizations or have served on committees that guide national science policy. As an illustration, Peter D. Lax has served terms as President of the American Mathematical Society, and Margaret Wright was President of SIAM. In 2000, she won the SIAM Distinguished Service Award, and in 2002 the AMS Public Service Award.

Our faculty is dedicated to teaching as well as to research. A partial list of awards in recognition of excellence in the classroom can be found in the Academic Distinction table below.

Scientific Distinction

Faculty recognition by award and year

Academia Europaea:

  1. Jun Zhang (2024),
  2. Yuri Tschinkel (2022),
  3. Fedor Bogomolov (2020),
  4. Chee Yap (2019),
  5. Julia Kempe (2018),
  6. Patrick Cousot (2006)

Academia Sinica, Beijing:

  1. Peter D. Lax (1994)

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science, Technical Achievement Award:

  1. Kenneth Perlin

ACM A.M. Turing Award:

  1. Yann LeCun

Alan T. Waterman Award:

  1. Subhash Khot (2010)

Amazon Research Award:

  1. Lakshminarayanan Subramanian (2024),
  2. Joseph Tassarotti (2024),
  3. Thomas Wies (2024),
  4. Saining Xie (2024)

American Mathematical Society Fellows:

  1. Eyal Lubetzky (2024),
  2. Vlad Vicol (2023),
  3. Anupam Gupta (2021),
  4. Paul Bourgade (2020),
  5. Olof Widlund (2019),
  6. Ofer Zeitouni (2017),
  7. Fang-Hua Lin (2015),
  8. Russel Caflisch (2013),
  9. Sylvain E. Cappell (2013),
  10. Jeff Cheeger (2013),
  11. Martin D. Davis (2013),
  12. Percy A. Deift (2013),
  13. Harold Edwards (2013),
  14. Robert V. Kohn (2013),
  15. Peter D. Lax (2013),
  16. Erwin Lutwak (2013),
  17. Andrew J. Majda (2013),
  18. Henry P. McKean (2013),
  19. David W. McLaughlin (2013),
  20. Charles M. Newman (2013),
  21. Charles S. Peskin (2013),
  22. Joel H. Spencer (2013),
  23. Jean Taylor (2013),
  24. Yuri Tschinkel (2013),
  25. S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan (2013),
  26. Margaret Wright (2013),
  27. Deane Yang (2013),
  28. Gaoyong Zhang (2013)

American Physical Society George E. Valley, Jr. Prize:

  1. Leif Ristroph

Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) Fellows:

  1. Ralph Grishman (2017)

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award:

  1. Denis Zorin (2019)

Association for Computing Machinery Fellows:

  1. Yann LeCun (2023),
  2. Denis Zorin (2022)

Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Fellow:

  1. Ernest Davis (2025)

Association for the Advancement of Science:

  1. Bhubaneswar Mishra ,
  2. Daniel Stein ,
  3. Yuri Tschinkel

Balzan Prize in Mathematics:

  1. Mikhael Gromov

Bocher Prize (AMS):

  1. Fang-Hua Lin

Breakthrough Prize for New Horizons in Mathematics:

  1. Roland Bauerschmidt (2024)

Chauvenet Prize (AMS):

  1. Peter D. Lax

CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars:

  1. Kyunghyun Cho (2017)

Dénes König Prize:

  1. Jinyoung Park (2024)

European Academy of Sciences:

  1. Sylvia Serfaty (2020)

Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences:

  1. Yuri Tschinkel (2024)

Fermat Prize:

  1. Nader Masmoudi (2017)

Finnish Academy of Sciences and Letters:

  1. Jeff Cheeger

Foreign Member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences:

  1. Yuri Tschinkel (2024)

Francois Frenkiel Award (APS):

  1. Michael J. Shelley ,
  2. Michael J. Shelley

French Academy of Sciences:

  1. Mikhael Gromov ,
  2. Peter D. Lax

George David Birkhoff Prize in Applied Mathematics (AMS and SIAM):

  1. Cathleen Morawetz ,
  2. Charles S. Peskin ,
  3. S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan

George Polya Prize (AMS/SIAM):

  1. Percy A. Deift

German National Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina:

  1. Yuri Tschinkel

Germund Dahlquist Prize (SIAM):

  1. Eric Vanden-Eijnden

Gödel Prize:

  1. Oded Regev (2018)

Heinz Hopf Prize:

  1. Lai-Sang Young (2023)

Henri Poincaré Prize (IAMP):

  1. Percy A. Deift (2018)

Honorary Degree, University of Chicago:

  1. Jeff Cheeger (2020)

Hungarian Academy of Sciences:

  1. Peter D. Lax ,
  2. Lai-Sang Young ,
  3. Joel H. Spencer (2025)

IEEE Early Academic Career Award in Robotics and Automation:

  1. Lerrel Pinto (2024)

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellows:

  1. Bhubaneswar Mishra (2009),
  2. Zvi M. Kedem (2007),
  3. Ted Rappaport (1998)

John von Neumann Lecture (SIAM):

  1. Margaret Wright (2019),
  2. Andrew J. Majda (1990)

John von Neumann Medal (IEEE):

  1. Patrick Cousot (2018)

Julian Cole Lectureship (SIAM):

  1. Michael J. Shelley

Kyoto Prize in Basic Science:

  1. Mikhael Gromov

Lagrange Prize (ICIAM):

  1. Andrew J. Majda (2015)

Lester R. Ford Award (MAA):

  1. Martin D. Davis ,
  2. David W. McLaughlin ,
  3. Cathleen Morawetz ,
  4. Chee Yap

Levi L. Conant Prize:

  1. Jinyoung Park (2024)

MacArthur Foundation Fellowship:

  1. Subhash Khot (2016),
  2. Charles S. Peskin (1983)

Maryam Mirzakhani Prize in Mathematics:

  1. Sylvia Serfaty (2024)

Max Planck Research Prize:

  1. Jeff Cheeger

Mayor's Award for Excellence in Science and Technology:

  1. Kenneth Perlin ,
  2. Charles S. Peskin

NASA Software of the Year:

  1. Marsha Berger

National Academy of Engineering Members:

  1. Yann LeCun (2017),
  2. Leslie Greengard (2006),
  3. Marsha Berger (2005),
  4. Katepalli R. Sreenivasan (1999),
  5. Margaret Wright (1997)

National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Fellows:

  1. Dennis E. Shasha (2022),
  2. Bhubaneswar Mishra (2017)

National Academy of Medicine Members:

  1. Charles S. Peskin

National Academy of Sciences Award for Scientific Reviewing:

  1. Bruce Kleiner (2013)

National Academy of Sciences Award in Applied Mathematics and Numerical Analysis:

  1. Paul Garabedian (1998),
  2. Andrew J. Majda (1992),
  3. Peter D. Lax (1983),
  4. Kurt Otto Friedrichs (1972)

National Medal of Science:

  1. Peter D. Lax ,
  2. Cathleen Morawetz ,
  3. S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan

NeurIPS Best Paper Award:

  1. He He (2024)

Nevanlinna Prize:

  1. Subhash Khot

New York Academy of Sciences Trailblazer Award:

  1. Yann LeCun (2025)

Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics (AMS/SIAM):

  1. Marsha Berger (2019),
  2. Andrew J. Majda (2013),
  3. Peter D. Lax (1975)

Oswald Veblen Prize (AMS):

  1. Jeff Cheeger ,
  2. Mikhael Gromov

Packard Foundation Fellowships:

  1. Leslie Greengard ,
  2. Lerrel Pinto (2023)

Pioneer Prize (ICIAM):

  1. Leslie Greengard (2022)

Poincaré Chair laureates (IHP/CMI):

  1. Paul Bourgade (2018)

Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering:

  1. Yann LeCun (2025)

Ralph E. Kleinman Award (SIAM):

  1. Robert V. Kohn

Rolf Schock Prize in Mathematics:

  1. Lai-Sang Young (2024)

Rollo Davidson Prize:

  1. Nina Holden (2023)

Royal Society Fellows:

  1. Subhash Khot (2017)

Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics:

  1. Lai-Sang Young

Samsung AI Researcher of the Year:

  1. He He (2024)

Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences:

  1. Jeff Cheeger (2021)

Simons Investigators:

  1. Vlad Vicol (2023),
  2. Oded Regev (2019),
  3. Sylvia Serfaty (2018),
  4. Subhash Khot (2015)

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Fellows:

  1. Joel H. Spencer (2017),
  2. John Rinzel (2013),
  3. Olof Widlund (2010),
  4. Marsha Berger (2009),
  5. Russel Caflisch (2009),
  6. Leslie Greengard (2009),
  7. Robert V. Kohn (2009),
  8. Peter D. Lax (2009),
  9. Andrew J. Majda (2009),
  10. David W. McLaughlin (2009),
  11. Michael Overton (2009),
  12. Charles S. Peskin (2009),
  13. Michael J. Shelley (2009),
  14. S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan (2009),
  15. Margaret Wright (2009)

Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture (AWM-SIAM):

  1. Lai-Sang Young

Soviet Academy of Sciences:

  1. Peter D. Lax

Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship:

  1. Eric Vanden-Eijnden (2020)

VinFuture Grand Prize:

  1. Yann LeCun (2024)

Wolf Prize:

  1. Mikhael Gromov (1993),
  2. Peter D. Lax (1987)

World Academy of Sciences Fellow:

  1. Yuri Tschinkel (2024)

Academic Distinction

Faculty recognition by award and year

Honorary Degree, University of Miami:

  1. Yuri Tschinkel (2023)

Jacob T. Schwartz Chair:

  1. Yann LeCun (2023)

NYU Alumni Association Great Teacher Award:

  1. Charles S. Peskin (1999)

NYU Arts & Science Teaching Innovation Award:

  1. Amakoe Gbedemah (2024),
  2. Matthew Zeidenberg (2024)

NYU Martin Luther King Faculty Award:

  1. Anasse Bari (2025)

NYU Outstanding Teaching Award:

  1. Nathan Hull ,
  2. Craig Kapp (2013)

NYU Teach/Tech Award:

  1. Anasse Bari (2024)

Samuel Marateck Prize:

  1. Joshua Clayton (2024)