41 faculty and 34 courses in Mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- Steven Johnson, Professor of Applied Mathematics h-index 90
Notable: “The Design and Implementation of FFTW3” (2005) · 5,157 citations
- Martin Wainwright, Cecil H. Green Professor, Professor of Mathematics h-index 84
Notable: “Image denoising using scale mixtures of gaussians in the wavelet domain” (2003) · 2,262 citations
- Victor Kac, Professor of Mathematics h-index 72
Notable: “Lie superalgebras” (1977) · 1,885 citations
- Peter Shor, Henry Adams Morss Professor, Professor of Applied Mathematics h-index 66
Notable: “Algorithms for quantum computation: discrete logarithms and factoring” (2002) · 8,522 citations
- Shafi Goldwasser, Leighton Family Professor, Professor of Mathematics h-index 61
Notable: “The Knowledge Complexity of Interactive Proof Systems” (1989) · 3,257 citations
- Elchanan Mossel, Professor of Mathematics h-index 53
Notable: “Spectral redemption in clustering sparse networks” (2013) · 658 citations
- Pablo Parrilo, Keithley Professor, Professor of Applied Mathematics h-index 51
Notable: “Guaranteed Minimum-Rank Solutions of Linear Matrix Equations via Nuclear Norm Minimization” (2010) · 3,617 citations
- Pavel Etingof, David W. Skinner Professor, Professor of Mathematics h-index 50
Primarily in studies which intersect representation theory and mathematical physics, such as quantum groups. He is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Selecta Mathematica and served as the chief editor of the Journal of the AMS from 2
Notable: “On fusion categories” (2005) · 772 citations
- Alan Edelman, Professor of Applied Mathematics h-index 46
Notable: “Julia: A Fresh Approach to Numerical Computing” (2017) · 6,293 citations
- Semyon Dyatlov, Professor of Mathematics h-index 46
Notable: “Complex scaling and the distribution of scattering poles” (1991) · 291 citations
- Michel Goemans, RSA Professor, Department Head h-index 44
Notable: “Improved approximation algorithms for maximum cut and satisfiability problems using semidefinite programming” (1995) · 3,685 citations
- Jörn Dunkel, MathWorks Professor, Professor of Mathematics h-index 44
Es on studying self-organization processes in complex biological and physical systems, from bacterial biofilms and embryonic tissues to brain dynamics and global trade networks. To this end, his group is developing and investigating mathema
Notable: “Meso-scale turbulence in living fluids” (2012) · 990 citations
- Alexei Borodin, Barton L. Weller Professor, Professor of Mathematics h-index 44
Notable: “Asymptotics of Plancherel measures for symmetric groups” (2000) · 435 citations
- Tobias Holck Colding, Cecil and Ida Green Distinguished Professor h-index 38
Notable: “On the structure of spaces with Ricci curvature bounded below. I” (1997) · 921 citations
- David Jerison, Professor of Mathematics h-index 38
Notable: “The Inhomogeneous Dirichlet Problem in Lipschitz Domains” (1995) · 861 citations
- Scott Sheffield, Leighton Family Professor, Professor of Mathematics h-index 34
Notable: “Liouville quantum gravity and KPZ” (2010) · 469 citations
- Wei Zhang, Professor of Mathematics h-index 34
Notable: “Fe/Cu diatomic catalysts for electrochemical nitrate reduction to ammonia” (2023) · 643 citations
- Bjorn Poonen, Distinguished Professor in Science h-index 34
Es on number theory and algebraic geometry; in particular, he is interested in developing methods for determining the rational number solutions to multivariable polynomial equations, but also interested in proving that certain problems are
Notable: “The Cassels-Tate Pairing on Polarized Abelian Varieties” (1999) · 179 citations
- Tom Leighton, Professor of Applied Mathematics h-index 33
Notable: “Consistent hashing and random trees” (1997) · 1,961 citations
- Ankur Moitra, Norbert Wiener Professor, Director of Statistics Center h-index 33
Notable: “Learning Topic Models -- Going beyond SVD” (2012) · 318 citations
- Michael Sipser, Donner Professor, Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow h-index 31
In algorithms and complexity theory, specifically efficient error correcting codes, interactive proof systems, randomness, quantum computation, and establishing the inherent computational difficulty of problems. He is the author of the
Notable: “Introduction to the Theory of Computation” (1996) · 2,822 citations
- Alexander Postnikov, Professor of Applied Mathematics h-index 31
In enumerative and algebraic combinatorics. His distinctions include selection of MIT's Solomon Buchsbaum AT&T research fund, 2002, the Sloan fellowship, 2003, an NSF Career Award, 2005, and the Department's Edmund F. Kelly research awa
Notable: “Permutohedra, Associahedra, and Beyond” (2009) · 560 citations
- Gigliola Staffilani, Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor h-index 31
Notable: “Sharp global well-posedness for KdV and modified KdV on ℝ and 𝕋” (2003) · 555 citations
- William Minicozzi, Singer Professor, Associate Department Head h-index 31
Notable: “Generic mean curvature flow I; generic singularities” (2012) · 487 citations
- Roman Bezrukavnikov, Norbert Wiener Professor, Professor of Mathematics h-index 30
Notable: “Parabolic induction and restriction functors for rational Cherednik algebras” (2009) · 137 citations
- Paul Seidel, Professor of Mathematics h-index 28
Notable: “Braid group actions on derived categories of coherent sheaves” (2001) · 632 citations
- Jonathan Kelner, Professor of Applied Mathematics h-index 27
Notable: “Quantized Frame Expansions with Erasures” (2001) · 493 citations
- Laurent Demanet, Professor of Applied Mathematics h-index 26
Notable: “Fast Discrete Curvelet Transforms” (2006) · 2,556 citations
- Philippe Rigollet, Cecil and Ida Green Distinguished Professor h-index 26
Span a wide range of mathematical topics, particularly those emerging from the fields of statistics, data science, and artificial intelligence. Currently, he focuses on statistical optimal transport and the mathematical foundations of Trans
Notable: “Optimal-Transport Analysis of Single-Cell Gene Expression Identifies Developmental Trajectories in Reprogramming” (2019) · 848 citations
- Larry Guth, Claude E. Shannon Professor, Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow h-index 26
In metric geometry, harmonic analysis, and extremal combinatorics. Metric geometry means the study of inequalities involving lengths, areas, and volumes. Some main examples are isoperimetric inequalities and systolic inequalities. The s
Notable: “On the Erdős distinct distances problem in the plane” (2014) · 334 citations
- Henry Cohn, Professor of Mathematics h-index 25
Notable: “A variational principle for domino tilings” (2000) · 347 citations
- Tomasz Mrowka, Professor of Mathematics h-index 23
Focus on problems in differential geometry and gauge theory. He chaired the Graduate Student Committee 1999-02, and chaired the Pure Mathematics Committee, 2004-15. From he served as Department Head. A prior Sloan fellow and Young
Notable: “The Genus of Embedded Surfaces in the Projective Plane” (1994) · 494 citations
- Davesh Maulik, Levinson Professor, Professor of Mathematics h-index 21
Notable: “Gromov–Witten theory and Donaldson–Thomas theory, I” (2006) · 512 citations
- Nike Sun, Professor of Mathematics h-index 16
Notable: “Counting in two-spin models on d-regular graphs” (2014) · 103 citations
- Zhiwei Yun, Professor of Mathematics h-index 16
Notable: “On Koszul duality for Kac-Moody groups” (2013) · 77 citations
- Ju-Lee Kim, Professor of Mathematics h-index 10
Notable: “Supercuspidal representations: An exhaustion theorem” (2006) · 100 citations
- Anette Hosoi, Pappalardo Professor, Professor of Applied Mathematics h-index 7
Notable: “Design and Analysis of a Robust, Low-cost, Highly Articulated manipulator enabled by jamming of granular media” (2012) · 317 citations
- Aleksandr Logunov, Professor of Mathematics
- Bonnie Berger, Simons Professor, Professor of Applied Mathematics
- John Bush, Professor of Applied Mathematics
- Martin Bazant, E.G. Roos Professor, Professor of Applied Mathematics
Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-02.