Harvey Mudd College

Claremont, CA
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    134 faculty · 100 courses · data as of 2026-07-02

    Engineering34 faculty avg h-index 9 #72 of 84 in Engineering
    David Nembhard, Professor of Engineering h-index 25
    Notable: “Measuring knowledge worker productivity” (2004) · 257 citations
    David Harris, Harvey S. Mudd Engineering Design Fellow, Professor of Engineering, Interim Chair h-index 22
    Notable: “A taxonomy of parallel prefix networks” (2004) · 177 citations
    Donald Remer, Professor Emeritus of Engineering h-index 13
    Notable: “A compendium and comparison of 25 project evaluation techniques. Part 1: Net present value and rate of return methods” (1995) · 217 citations
    Albert Dato, Professor of Engineering, Associate Director of Engineering Clinic h-index 9
    Notable: “Substrate-Free Gas-Phase Synthesis of Graphene Sheets” (2008) · 745 citations
    Science, Technology & Society24 faculty avg h-index 15.9 #8 of 13 in Interdisciplinary Studies
    Anup Gampa, Assistant Professor of Psychology h-index 8
    Notable: “Evaluating the replicability of social science experiments in Nature and Science between 2010 and 2015” (2018) · 1,572 citations
    Isabel Balseiro, Professor of Comparative Literature; Alexander and Adelaide Hixon Professor h-index 5
    Ambereen Dadabhoy, Associate Professor of Literature h-index 5
    Jeffrey D. Groves, Professor of Literature, Emeritus h-index 4
    Mathematics19 faculty avg h-index 9.1 #21 of 23 in Mathematics
    Alfonso Castro, Robert and Barbara McAlister Professor of Mathematics h-index 22
    Partial differential equations (including semilinear equations with discrete spectrum), variational methods, inverse-function theorems and water waves (solitons). Castro was awarded a 2012 Simons Foundation Collaboration Grant for Mathematicians to sup
    Notable: “A Sign-Changing Solution for a Superlinear Dirichlet Problem” (1997) · 291 citations
    Francis Edward Su, Benediktsson-Karwa Professor of Mathematics; Associate Chair h-index 20
    Notable: “On Choosing and Bounding Probability Metrics” (2002) · 1,204 citations
    Arthur T. Benjamin, Smallwood Family Professor of Mathematics h-index 19
    Combinatorics and number theory, with a special fondness for Fibonacci numbers. Many of these ideas appear in his book (co-authored with Jennifer Quinn), “Proofs That Really Count: The Art of Combinatorial Proof”, published by MAA. In 2006, that book r
    Notable: “A Combinatorial Approach to Hyperharmonic numbers” (2003) · 63 citations
    Lisette G. de Pillis, Professor of Mathematics h-index 13
    Notable: “A Validated Mathematical Model of Cell-Mediated Immune Response to Tumor Growth” (2005) · 664 citations
    Computer Science18 faculty avg h-index 7.9 #67 of 88 in Computer Science
    Chris Stone, Professor, Capstone Program Director h-index 32
    Notable: “A new class of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors” (1980) · 706 citations
    Ben Wiedermann, Professor, Clinic Recruiting Director h-index 12
    Notable: “The DaCapo benchmarks” (2006) · 1,600 citations
    Jonathan Chang, Assistant Professor h-index 10
    My research focuses on finding ways to promote healthier interactions in online communities. I approach this problem both from a _technical_ perspective—developing new algorithms and computational models to characterize and detect behaviors that are harmfu
    Notable: “Multitask Prompted Training Enables Zero-Shot Task Generalization” (2021) · 561 citations
    Beth Trushkowsky, Associate Professor h-index 8
    Integrating human computation into databases systems; scalable databases and cloud computing. My publications, grouped by topic: Crowdsourcing and Databases Doren Lan, Katherine Reed, Austin Shin, Beth Trushkowsky. Dynamic Filter: Adaptive Query
    Notable: “The SCADS director: scaling a distributed storage system under stringent performance requirements” (2011) · 136 citations
    Physics16 faculty · 10 courses avg h-index 14.4 #17 of 21 in Physics
    Jason Gallicchio, Associate Professor of Physics, Physics Clinic Director h-index 29
    Notable: “Detection ofB-Mode Polarization in the Cosmic Microwave Background with Data from the South Pole Telescope” (2013) · 332 citations
    Brian Shuve, Associate Professor of Physics h-index 21
    Notable: “A facility to search for hidden particles at the CERN SPS: the SHiP physics case” (2016) · 783 citations
    Daniel Tamayo, Assistant Professor of Physics h-index 21
    Notable: “whfast: a fast and unbiased implementation of a symplectic Wisdom–Holman integrator for long-term gravitational simulations” (2015) · 461 citations
    Nicholas P. Breznay, Associate Professor of Physics h-index 18
    Notable: “Realization of a three-dimensional spin–anisotropic harmonic honeycomb iridate” (2014) · 269 citations
    Courses: Stars, Planets, and Life: Introduction to Astrobiology · Introduction to Astrophysics · Observational Astronomy · Star Formation and the Interstellar Medium · Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics · High Energy Astrophysics +4 more
    Chemistry13 faculty · 42 courses avg h-index 13.3 #11 of 21 in Chemistry
    Adam R. Johnson, Ray and Mary Ingwersen Professor of Chemistry, Department Chair h-index 24
    Notable: “Structure of the pseudokinase–kinase domains from protein kinase TYK2 reveals a mechanism for Janus kinase (JAK) autoinhibition” (2014) · 220 citations
    David A. Vosburg, Donald A. Strauss Professor of Chemistry h-index 23
    Notable: “Nature's Inventory of Halogenation Catalysts: Oxidative Strategies Predominate” (2006) · 549 citations
    Lelia N. Hawkins, Professor of Chemistry and Hixon Professor of Climate Studies h-index 22
    Notable: “Carbohydrate-like composition of submicron atmospheric particles and their production from ocean bubble bursting” (2009) · 443 citations
    Katherine M. Van Heuvelen, R. Michael Shanahan Professor of Chemistry, Associate Dean of the Faculty h-index 15
    Notable: “A More Reactive Trigonal-Bipyramidal High-Spin Oxoiron(IV) Complex with a cis-Labile Site” (2011) · 138 citations
    Courses: Chemistry Laboratory · Introduction to Chemical Research · Global Climate Change: Non-linearity, Irreversibility, and Surprises · Chemistry in the Modern World · The Chemistry of Cooking · Computations in Chemistry +36 more

    Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Partial — enrichment ongoing.

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    About Harvey Mudd College. Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, CA reports an overall acceptance rate of 12.3%, an early-round acceptance rate of 18.4%, an SAT middle 50% of 1510–1560, a class size of 231, and a yield of 36.0% based on the most recent Common Data Set filings. Ultra-selective STEM-focused college within the Claremont Consortium. Produces the highest percentage of STEM PhDs of any undergraduate institution. Graduates earn top starting salaries.