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. Yuri Tschinkel (2022),
  2. Fedor Bogomolov (2020),
  3. Chee Yap (2019),
  4. Julia Kempe (2018),
  5. 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)

American Academy of Arts and Sciences Members:

  1. Nader Masmoudi (2022),
  2. Sylvia Serfaty (2019),
  3. Michael J. Shelley (2019),
  4. Ofer Zeitouni (2019),
  5. Sylvain E. Cappell (2018),
  6. Robert V. Kohn (2017),
  7. Leslie Greengard (2016),
  8. Gérard Ben Arous (2015),
  9. Russel Caflisch (2012),
  10. Marsha Berger (2011),
  11. Andrew J. Majda (2010),
  12. Jalal M. I. Shatah (2010),
  13. Jeff Cheeger (2006),
  14. Charles M. Newman (2006),
  15. Fang-Hua Lin (2004),
  16. Lai-Sang Young (2004),
  17. Percy A. Deift (2003),
  18. Margaret Wright (2001),
  19. David W. McLaughlin (2000),
  20. Jean Taylor (1999),
  21. Katepalli R. Sreenivasan (1997),
  22. Charles S. Peskin (1994),
  23. S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan (1988),
  24. Peter D. Lax (1966),
  25. Henry P. McKean (1964)

American Mathematical Society Fellows:

  1. Vlad Vicol (2022),
  2. Olof Widlund (2019),
  3. Russel Caflisch (2013),
  4. Sylvain E. Cappell (2013),
  5. Jeff Cheeger (2013),
  6. Martin D. Davis (2013),
  7. Percy A. Deift (2013),
  8. Harold Edwards (2013),
  9. Peter D. Lax (2013),
  10. Erwin Lutwak (2013),
  11. Andrew J. Majda (2013),
  12. Henry P. McKean (2013),
  13. David W. McLaughlin (2013),
  14. Charles M. Newman (2013),
  15. Charles S. Peskin (2013),
  16. Joel H. Spencer (2013),
  17. Jean Taylor (2013),
  18. Yuri Tschinkel (2013),
  19. S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan (2013),
  20. Margaret Wright (2013),
  21. Deane Yang (2013),
  22. 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. Denis Zorin (2022)

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

Chauvenet Prize (AMS):

  1. Peter D. Lax

CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars:

  1. Kyunghyun Cho (2017)

European Academy of Sciences:

  1. Sylvia Serfaty (2020)

Fermat Prize:

  1. Nader Masmoudi (2017)

Finnish Academy of Sciences and Letters:

  1. Jeff Cheeger

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)

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

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

MacArthur Foundation Fellowship:

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

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 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 Academy of Sciences Members:

  1. Fedor Bogomolov (2022),
  2. Yann LeCun (2022),
  3. Michael J. Shelley (2022),
  4. Gérard Ben Arous (2020),
  5. Lai-Sang Young (2020),
  6. Russel Caflisch (2019),
  7. Percy A. Deift (2009),
  8. Katepalli R. Sreenivasan (2007),
  9. Leslie Greengard (2006),
  10. Margaret Wright (2005),
  11. Charles M. Newman (2004),
  12. David W. McLaughlin (2002),
  13. Marsha Berger (2000),
  14. Jeff Cheeger (1997),
  15. Charles S. Peskin (1995),
  16. S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan (1995),
  17. Andrew J. Majda (1994),
  18. Mikhael Gromov (1989),
  19. Henry P. McKean (1980),
  20. Peter D. Lax (1970)

National Medal of Science:

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

Nevanlinna Prize:

  1. Subhash Khot

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

Pioneer Prize (ICIAM):

  1. Leslie Greengard (2022)

Poincaré Chair laureates (IHP/CMI):

  1. Paul Bourgade (2018)

Ralph E. Kleinman Award (SIAM):

  1. Robert V. Kohn

Royal Society Fellows:

  1. Subhash Khot (2017)

Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics:

  1. Lai-Sang Young

Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences:

  1. Jeff Cheeger (2022)

Simons Investigators:

  1. Oded Regev (2019),
  2. Sylvia Serfaty (2018),
  3. 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)

Wolf Prize:

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

Pioneer Prize (ICIAM)

Faculty recognition by award and year

Academic Distinction

Faculty recognition by award and year

NYU Alumni Association Great Teacher Award:

  1. Charles S. Peskin (1999)

NYU Golden Dozen Award:

  1. Frederick P. Greenleaf,
  2. Esteban G. Tabak,
  3. Selin Kalaycioglu (2014),
  4. Joel H. Spencer (2007),
  5. Deena Engel (2006)

NYU Outstanding Teaching Award:

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

Silver Professorships:

  1. Julia Kempe (2022)