26 faculty and 42 courses in Mathematics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
- Kristin Bennett, Associate Director of the IDEA (Joint with CS) h-index 49
Such as health equity, ML fairness, and synthetic health data. She has been program chair and area chair, PC member and/or organizer for conferences in machine learning, data mining, and operations research including KDD, AAAI, Intl. Conf.
Notable: “Semi-Supervised Support Vector Machines” (1998) · 793 citations
- Donald Drew, Professor Emeritus h-index 38
Notable: “Mathematical Modeling of Two-Phase Flow” (1983) · 1,437 citations
- William Henshaw, Margaret A. Darrin Distinguished Professor in Applied Mathematics h-index 36
Lie in area of the numerical solution of partial differential equations and in techniques for overlapping grids. He has worked on the development of stable and accurate algorithms and boundary conditions for the solution of PDEs on ov
Notable: “Composite overlapping meshes for the solution of partial differential equations” (1990) · 537 citations
- John Mitchell, Professor h-index 34
Notable: “Restoration of Services in Interdependent Infrastructure Systems: A Network Flows Approach” (2007) · 344 citations
- Donald Schwendeman, Professor, Director, Center for Modeling, Optimization and Computational Analysis h-index 29
Es on the development and analysis of numerical methods for systems of partial differential equations (PDEs) that arise in applications of science and engineering. A significant portion of his work has centered around the development of num
Notable: “The Riemann problem and a high-resolution Godunov method for a model of compressible two-phase flow” (2005) · 191 citations
- Peter Kramer, Professor, Department Head h-index 28
Es on the application of ideas and techniques from probability theory and differential equations to model and analyze complex systems which evolve in time and involve too many variables to represent explicitly in a practical computational m
Notable: “Simplified models for turbulent diffusion: Theory, numerical modelling, and physical phenomena” (1999) · 514 citations
- Fengyan Li, Professor h-index 26
And activities are mainly in Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing. Her research focuses on designing and analyzing robust and highly accurate computational methods - especially structure-preserving discontinuous Galerkin finite eleme
Notable: “Locally divergence-free discontinuous Galerkin methods for the Maxwell equations” (2003) · 287 citations
- Jeffrey Banks, Professor, Graduate Program Director h-index 25
Notable: “Overview of the JET results in support to ITER” (2017) · 184 citations
- Yangyang Xu, Associate Professor h-index 23
Optimization theory and methods and their applications such as in machine learning, statistics, and signal processing. He worked on developing algorithms for compressed sensing, matrix completion, and tensor factorization and learning.
Notable: “A Block Coordinate Descent Method for Regularized Multiconvex Optimization with Applications to Nonnegative Tensor Factorization and Completion” (2013) · 1,206 citations
- Yuri Lvov, Professor h-index 23
Notable: “TOWARD REGIONAL CHARACTERIZATIONS OF THE OCEANIC INTERNAL WAVEFIELD” (2011) · 152 citations
- Mark Holmes, Professor h-index 22
Time dependent. The reason is that I like mathematics, and I like to use mathematics to understand the world we live in (i.e., I am an applied mathematician). Here are two specific research topics of current interest: 1) Mechanoreceptio
Notable: “Fluid transport and mechanical properties of articular cartilage: A review” (1984) · 1,025 citations
- Gregor Kovacic, Professor, Undergraduate Program Director h-index 21
Studies of nonlinear evolution equations and their scientific applications, particularly in dispersive waves, optics, and neuroscience. Recently, he has been exploring dynamics and statistics of dispersive wave-like and complet
Notable: “Inverse scattering transform for the focusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation with nonzero boundary conditions” (2014) · 326 citations
- Isom Herron, Professor Emeritus h-index 12
Notable: “Helical magnetorotational instability in magnetized Taylor-Couette flow” (2006) · 95 citations
- Fabian Faulstich, Assistant Professor, Eliza Ricketts Foundation Career Development Chair h-index 8
On the development and implementation of new numerical methods for quantum simulation and quantum embedding. More generally, he is interested in the mathematical analysis and the development of electronic-structure methods in quantum che
Notable: “Numerical and Theoretical Aspects of the DMRG-TCC Method Exemplified by the Nitrogen Dimer” (2019) · 62 citations
- Andrew Horning, Assistant Professor h-index 6
Scientific computing, numerical analysis, and applied mathematics Research Centers Scientific Computation Research Center (SCOREC) Publications Google Scholar Back to top Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 110 Eighth Street Troy, NY USA 121
Notable: “Effects of nanoscale surface roughness on the resistivity of ultrathin epitaxial copper films” (2015) · 74 citations
- Elizabeth Kam, Lecturer h-index 6
Notable: “Lattice Boltzman Method Simulation of Aeroacoustics and Nonreflecting Boundary Conditions” (2007) · 65 citations
- David Isaacson, Professor h-index 5
Notable: “Inverse problems for a perturbed dissipative half-space” (1995) · 78 citations
- Chjan Lim, Professor h-index 4
Notable: “Periodic solutions for three sedimenting spheres” (1988) · 46 citations
- Ashwani Kapila, Professor Emeritus
- Belmiro Galo da Silva, Lecturer
Harmonic Analysis, Geometric Measure Theory, Analytic Combinatorics and One-Dimensional Dynamics. His favorite subjects are "Falconer-type problems" and "Kneading Maps". The Falconer distance problems ask how large does the Hausdorf
- Daniel Stevenson, Lecturer
- Eliane Zerbetto Traldi, Lecturer
Mathematics Education Other Focus Areas Biomathematics Teaching Current Courses MATH 1010 - Calculus I MATH 1020 - Calculus II Publications The following is a selection of recent publications in Scopus. Eliane Zerbetto Traldi has 2 indexed
- Elisabeth Brown, Lecturer
- Gina Kucinski, Sr. Lecturer
- Kseniya Klyachko, Lecturer
- Maya Kiehl, Sr. Lecturer
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.