80 faculty and 7 courses in Mathematics at University of California, Los Angeles.
- Stanley Osher, Professor, Mathematics and Computer Science h-index 121
Scientific Computing, Machine Learning, Applied Mathematics ©2018 Regents of the University of California
Notable: “Nonlinear total variation based noise removal algorithms” (1992) · 15,681 citations
- Terence Tao, Professor and James and Carol Collins Chair h-index 101
Analysis, Oscillatory Integrals ©2018 Regents of the University of California
Notable: “Robust uncertainty principles: exact signal reconstruction from highly incomplete frequency information” (2006) · 15,779 citations
- Tony F-C Chan, Professor Emeritus h-index 84
Scientific Computing, Applied Mathematics ©2018 Regents of the University of California
Notable: “Active contours without edges” (2001) · 10,297 citations
- Rafail Ostrovsky, Professor, Computer Science and Mathematics h-index 72
Theory of Computation ©2018 Regents of the University of California
Notable: “Fuzzy Extractors: How to Generate Strong Keys from Biometrics and Other Noisy Data” (2008) · 1,725 citations
- Andrea Bertozzi, Professor, Mathematics and Mechanical Engineering h-index 72
Nonlinear PDE and Data Science ©2018 Regents of the University of California
Notable: “Navier-stokes, fluid dynamics, and image and video inpainting” (2005) · 1,044 citations
- Mason Porter, Professor, Mathematics and Sociology h-index 61
Applied Mathematics, Nonlinear Systems, Networks, Complex Systems ©2018 Regents of the University of California
Notable: “Multilayer networks” (2014) · 3,114 citations
- Mark Green, Professor Emeritus and Distinguished Research Professor h-index 53
Commutative Algebra, Algebraic Geometry and Applied Mathematics ©2018 Regents of the University of California
Notable: “Global, regional, and national prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adults during 1980–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013” (2014) · 12,075 citations
- Lieven Vandenberghe, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Mathematics h-index 49
Optimization in Engineering, Applications in Systems and Control, Circuit Design, and Signal Processing ©2018 Regents of the University of California
Notable: “Semidefinite Programming” (1996) · 4,101 citations
- Russel Caflisch, Professor Emeritus h-index 44
Fluid Dynamics, Kinetic Theory, Partial Differential Equations, Monte Carlo Methods ©2018 Regents of the University of California
Notable: “Monte Carlo and quasi-Monte Carlo methods” (1998) · 1,734 citations
- Sorin Popa, Professor and Takesaki Endowed Chair h-index 40
Operator Algebras and the Theory of Type II Factors Sorin Popa Professor & Takesaki Endowed Chair in Operator Algebras Ph.D. University of Bucharest 1983
Notable: “Entropy and index for subfactors” (1986) · 578 citations
- Chenfanfu Jiang, Professor h-index 40
Physics-based simulation, scientific computing, high performance computing, computational mechanics, numerical methods, physical simulations for AI and robotics, machine learning for numerical simulation ©2018 Regents of the University of C
Notable: “The affine particle-in-cell method” (2015) · 397 citations
- Thomas Ferguson, Professor Emeritus h-index 39
Notable: “A Bayesian Analysis of Some Nonparametric Problems” (1973) · 4,814 citations
- Luminita Vese, Professor h-index 35
Image Processing and Computer Vision ©2018 Regents of the University of California
Notable: “Active contours without edges” (2001) · 10,297 citations
- Rowan Killip, Professor h-index 35
Analysis ©2018 Regents of the University of California
Notable: “Sum rules for Jacobi matrices and their applications to spectral theory” (2003) · 282 citations
- William Zame, Professor Emeritus, Economics and Mathematics h-index 34
Economics ©2018 Regents of the University of California
Notable: “DeepHit: A Deep Learning Approach to Survival Analysis With Competing Risks” (2018) · 583 citations
- Igor Pak, Professor h-index 34
Combinatorics and Discrete Geometry ©2018 Regents of the University of California
Notable: “Partition bijections, a survey” (2006) · 168 citations
- William Newman, Professor, EPSS and Mathematics h-index 33
Applied Mathematics and Computation ©2018 Regents of the University of California
Notable: “Micro and macroscopic models of rock fracture” (2003) · 235 citations
- Masamichi Takesaki, Professor Emeritus h-index 32
Functional Analysis and Operator Algebras ©2018 Regents of the University of California
Notable: “Conditional expectations in von Neumann algebras” (1972) · 490 citations
- Lara Dolecek, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Mathematics h-index 32
Coding & Information Theory, Graphical Models & Statistical Inference, and Combinatorial Methods. ©2018 Regents of the University of California
Notable: “Analysis of Absorbing Sets and Fully Absorbing Sets of Array-Based LDPC Codes” (2010) · 214 citations
- Deanna Needell, Professor, Dunn Family Endowed Chair h-index 31
Compressed Sensing, Randomized Algorithms, Functional Analysis, Computational Mathematics, Probability, Statistics ©2018 Regents of the University of California
Notable: “CoSaMP: Iterative signal recovery from incomplete and inaccurate samples” (2008) · 4,393 citations
- Monica Visan, Professor h-index 31
Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, Harmonic Analysis ©2018 Regents of the University of California
Notable: “The Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation with Combined Power-Type Nonlinearities” (2007) · 290 citations
- Yiannis Moschovakis, Professor Emeritus and Distinguished Research Professor h-index 31
Mathematical Logic, Foundations of Computation Theory ©2018 Regents of the University of California
Notable: “Abstract first order computability. I, II” (1969) · 139 citations
- Ker Chau Li, Professor, Statistics and Mathematics h-index 30
Statistics: Regression, Data Visualization, Survey Sampling, Design ©2018 Regents of the University of California
Notable: “Sliced Inverse Regression for Dimension Reduction” (1991) · 2,101 citations
- Wilfrid Gangbo, Professor h-index 29
Calculus of Variations; Nonlinear Analysis; Partial Differential Equations; Kinetic Theory; Functional Analysis; Fluid Mechanics ©2018 Regents of the University of California
Notable: “The geometry of optimal transportation” (1996) · 865 citations
- William Duke, Professor Emeritus and Distinguished Research Professor h-index 29
Number Theory ©2018 Regents of the University of California
Notable: “Hyperbolic distribution problems and half-integral weight Maass forms” (1988) · 385 citations
- Chris Anderson, Professor Emeritus h-index 29
Numerical Analysis, Computational Fluid Mechanics, Differential Equations ©2018 Regents of the University of California
Notable: “Managerial Perceptions and Strategic Behavior.” (1975) · 366 citations
- Haruzo Hida, Professor Emeritus and Distinguished Research Professor h-index 28
Number Theory (complex and p-adic), Modular Forms ©2018 Regents of the University of California
Notable: “Galois representations into GL2 (Z p [[X]]) attached to ordinary cusp forms” (1986) · 337 citations
- Raphael Rouquier, Professor and Graduate Vice Chair h-index 28
Representation theory ©2018 Regents of the University of California
Notable: “2-Kac-Moody algebras” (2008) · 473 citations
- Donald Martin, Professor Emeritus h-index 28
Mathematical Logic, Descriptive Set Theory, Set Theory, and Infinite Games ©2018 Regents of the University of California
Notable: “Borel Determinacy” (1975) · 581 citations
- Alyson Fletcher, Associate Professor, Statistics and Mathematics h-index 27
©2018 Regents of the University of California
Notable: “Vector Approximate Message Passing” (2019) · 433 citations
- Ko Honda, Professor h-index 27
Notable: “On the classification of tight contact structures I” (2000) · 365 citations
- Marek Biskup, Professor h-index 26
Probability, Mathematical Physics ©2018 Regents of the University of California
Notable: “ROOT — A C++ framework for petabyte data storage, statistical analysis and visualization” (2009) · 585 citations
- Jun Yin, Professor h-index 25
Probability, Mathematical Physics ©2018 Regents of the University of California
Notable: “Rigidity of eigenvalues of generalized Wigner matrices” (2011) · 353 citations
- John Garnett, Professor Emeritus and Distinguished Research Professor h-index 24
Classical Analysis ©2018 Regents of the University of California
Notable: “Bounded Analytic Functions.” (1982) · 3,623 citations
- Alexander Merkurjev, Professor h-index 24
Algebraic K-Theory, Algebra ©2018 Regents of the University of California
Notable: “Motivic decomposition of isotropic projective homogeneous varieties” (2005) · 115 citations
- Burt Totaro, Professor h-index 24
Algebraic Geometry, Topology, Lie Groups ©2018 Regents of the University of California
Notable: “HODGE THEORY AND COMPLEX ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY, I (Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics 76) By CLAIRE VOISIN: 322 pp., £55.00 (US$80.00), ISBN (Cambridge University Press, 2002).” (2003) · 284 citations
- Gregory Eskin, Professor Emeritus and Distinguished Research Professor h-index 23
Partial Differential Equations ©2018 Regents of the University of California
Notable: “Artificial black holes” (2011) · 145 citations
- Dimitri Shlyakhtenko, Professor and IPAM Director h-index 23
Operator Algebras ©2018 Regents of the University of California
Notable: “Free quasi-free states” (1997) · 153 citations
- Guido Montufar, Professor, Mathematics and Statistics h-index 21
Mathematics, Statistics, Machine Learning, Deep Learning ©2018 Regents of the University of California
Notable: “On the Number of Linear Regions of Deep Neural Networks” (2014) · 572 citations
- Mario Bonk, Professor and Chair h-index 21
Analysis ©2018 Regents of the University of California
Notable: “Embeddings of Gromov hyperbolic spaces” (2000) · 232 citations
- Paul Balmer, Professor h-index 21
Algebra ©2018 Regents of the University of California
Notable: “The spectrum of prime ideals in tensor triangulated categories” (2005) · 309 citations
- Peter Petersen, Professor h-index 20
Riemannian Geometry ©2018 Regents of the University of California
Notable: “Internally organized mechanisms of the head direction sense” (2015) · 319 citations
- Jacob Bedrossian, Professor and Administrative Vice Chair h-index 20
Mathematical analysis of both deterministic and stochastic PDEs arising in fluid mechanics and plasma physics. ©2018 Regents of the University of California
Notable: “A second order virtual node method for elliptic problems with interfaces and irregular domains” (2010) · 106 citations
- Mihai Cucuringu, Professor h-index 19
Applied Mathematics & Data Science, Quantitative Finance, Machine Learning in Finance, Market Microstructure, Algorithmic & High-frequency Trading, (Graph) Machine Learning, Networks, Applied Statistics, Time Series ©2018 Regents of
Notable: “Uniqueness of Low-Rank Matrix Completion by Rigidity Theory” (2010) · 125 citations
- Itay Neeman, Professor h-index 18
Mathematical Logic ©2018 Regents of the University of California
Notable: “DKAL: Distributed-Knowledge Authorization Language” (2008) · 118 citations
- Chandrashekhar Khare, Professor h-index 16
Galois Representations ©2018 Regents of the University of California
Notable: “Serre’s modularity conjecture (II)” (2009) · 352 citations
- Kirby Baker, Professor Emeritus h-index 16
Algebraic Systems, Lattice Theory ©2018 Regents of the University of California
Notable: “Polynomial interpolation and the Chinese Remainder Theorem for algebraic systems” (1975) · 225 citations
- Michael Hitrik, Professor h-index 16
Partial Differential Equations ©2018 Regents of the University of California
Notable: “Energy decay for damped wave equations on partially rectangular domains” (2007) · 102 citations
- Tom Chou, Professor, Computational Medicine and Mathematics h-index 15
Mathematical/Computational Biology, Statistical Physics, Soft Condensed Matter Physics ©2018 Regents of the University of California
Notable: “Evaluating Cutoff Criteria of Model Fit Indices for Latent Variable Models with Binary and Continuous Outcomes” (2002) · 1,195 citations
- Hayden Schaeffer, Professor and Director of Applied Mathematics h-index 15
Mathematical Machine Learning, Nonlinear Differential Equations, Randomization, Applied Probability, and Physical Modeling ©2018 Regents of the University of California
Notable: “Learning partial differential equations via data discovery and sparse optimization” (2017) · 444 citations
- Inwon Kim, Professor h-index 15
Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations ©2018 Regents of the University of California
Notable: “Uniqueness and Existence Results on the Hele-Shaw and the Stefan Problems” (2003) · 120 citations
- Ernest Ryu, Assistant Professor h-index 14
Applied Mathematics, Deep Learning, Optimization ©2018 Regents of the University of California
Notable: “Structural Characterization of Unsaturated Phosphatidylcholines Using Traveling Wave Ion Mobility Spectrometry” (2009) · 105 citations
- Sucharit Sarkar, Professor h-index 14
Topology ©2018 Regents of the University of California
Notable: “A combinatorial description of knot Floer homology” (2009) · 218 citations
- Don Blasius, Professor h-index 12
Automorphic Forms, Number Theory ©2018 Regents of the University of California
Notable: “Motives for Hilbert modular forms” (1993) · 121 citations
- Pavel Galashin, Associate Professor h-index 11
Algebraic Combinatorics ©2018 Regents of the University of California
Notable: “Positroid varieties and cluster algebras” (2023) · 30 citations
- Zhouli Xu, Professor h-index 11
Algebraic Topology, Stable Homotopy Theory, connections to Algebraic Geometry and Geometric Topology ©2018 Regents of the University of California
Notable: “The triviality of the 61-stem in the stable homotopy groups of spheres” (2017) · 40 citations
- Robert Edwards, Professor Emeritus h-index 10
Notable: “Deformations of Spaces of Imbeddings” (1971) · 285 citations
- Anton Bernshteyn, Associate Professor h-index 10
Mathematical logic and Combinatorics ©2018 Regents of the University of California
Notable: “The asymptotic behavior of the correspondence chromatic number” (2016) · 63 citations
- Romyar Sharifi, Professor h-index 9
Algebraic Number Theory ©2018 Regents of the University of California
Notable: “A reciprocity map and the two-variable $p$-adic $L$-function” (2011) · 45 citations
- Robert Greene, Professor h-index 8
Differential Geometry, Several Complex Variables ©2018 Regents of the University of California
Notable: “The State and Fate of Community Banking” (2015) · 45 citations
- Georg Menz, Associate Professor h-index 7
Probability, Applied Mathematics, PDE ©2018 Regents of the University of California
Notable: “Poincaré and logarithmic Sobolev inequalities by decomposition of the energy landscape” (2014) · 70 citations
- Ziyang Gao, Professor h-index 7
Arithmetic Geometry, Diophantine Geometry, Number Theory ©2018 Regents of the University of California
Notable: “Towards the Andre–Oort conjecture for mixed Shimura varieties: The Ax–Lindemann theorem and lower bounds for Galois orbits of special points” (2015) · 41 citations
- Joaquin Moraga, Assistant Professor h-index 7
Algebraic Geometry, Birational Geometry, Toric Geometry, Minimal Model Program, and Singularities ©2018 Regents of the University of California
Notable: “Strong $(\delta,n)$-Complements for Semi-Stable Morphisms” (2020) · 18 citations
- Changying Ding, Assistant Professor h-index 3
Notable: “Properly proximal von Neumann algebras” (2023) · 12 citations
- Yifan Chen, Assistant Professor h-index 2
Applied and computational mathematics, applied probability, sampling and generative modeling ©2018 Regents of the University of California
Notable: “Multistrange Baryon Production in Au-Au Collisions atsNN=130 GeV” (2004) · 175 citations
- Michael Andrews, PIC Director h-index 2
Notable: “Inverting the Hopf map” (2017) · 28 citations
- Yulia Alexandr, Hedrick Math Fellow h-index 2
Notable: “Logarithmic Voronoi cells” (2021) · 10 citations
- Willem Diepeveen, Hedrick Math Fellow h-index 2
Notable: “Riemannian geometry for efficient analysis of protein dynamics data” (2024) · 8 citations
- William Adkisson, Hedrick Math Fellow h-index 1
Notable: “DNA origami and unknotted A-trails in torus graphs” (2020) · 2 citations
- David Beers, Postdoctoral Scholar
- Dominique Maldague, Assistant Professor
Fourier restriction theory, harmonic analysis, applications to problems in incidence geometry, combinatorics, and number theory ©2018 Regents of the University of California
- Dylan Butson, Hedrick Math Fellow
- Gebhard Boeckle, Visiting Professor
- Gurbir Dhillon, Assistant Professor
Representation theory ©2018 Regents of the University of California
- Heather Dallas, Postdoctoral Scholar
- Iqra Altaf, Hedrick Math Fellow
- Justin Baker, Hedrick Math Fellow
- Rana Badreddine, Hedrick Math Fellow
- Tyler Arant, Math Fellow
- William Conley, Professor of Teaching
Number Theory, Automorphic Forms, Representations of p-adic Groups ©2018 Regents of the University of California
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.