The following is a partial list of Purdue University faculty, including current, former, emeritus, and deceased faculty, and administrators at Purdue University.

Notable faculty

Agriculture Ralph Merrill Caldwell – plant breeder Gebisa Ejeta – professor of Agronomy, winner of World Food Prize Philip E. Nelson – food scientist, winner of the World Food Prize

Engineering and technology Rakesh Agrawal (professor of Chemical Engineering) – winner of National Medal of Technology Arden L. Bement Jr. (professor of Nuclear Engineering) – director of the National Science Foundation, former director of NIST Lonnie D. Bentley – professor of computer and information technology Sabine Brunswicker – associate professor and director of Research Center for Open Digital Innovation (RCODI) Jean-Lou Chameau (professor of Civil Engineering) – president of California Institute of Technology Clarence L. "Ben" Coates (head of the School of Electrical Engineering) – computer scientist and engineer known for his work on waveform recognition devices, circuit gates and accumulators Supriyo Datta (professor of Electrical Engineering) – researcher of nanoelectronics Rui de Figueiredo (professor of Electrical Engineering) Charles Alton Ellis (professor of Structural Engineering) – designer of the Golden Gate Bridge Reginald Fessenden (professor of Electrical Engineering) – first wireless voice transmission W. Kent Fuchs (professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering) – provost of Cornell University R. Edwin Garcia (professor of Materials Engineering) – researcher and author Leslie Geddes (Showalter Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biomedical Engineering) – National Medal of Technology recipient Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr. (lecturer) – industrial engineer Lillian Gilbreth (professor of Industrial Engineering) – efficiency expert, first female member of U.S. National Academy of Engineering Kathleen Howell – astrodynamist known for deep space spacecraft mission design using halo orbits F.W. Hutchinson – engineer and researcher of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning Frank P. Incropera (professor of Mechanical Engineering) – ISI highly cited researcher on heat transfer Leah Jamieson (professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and dean of Engineering) – winner of Gordon Prize Avinash Kak (professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering) – researcher of information processing Rangasami L. Kashyap (professor of Electrical Engineering) – applied mathematician Linda Katehi (professor of Electrical Engineering and dean of Engineering) – chancellor of University of California, Davis Ronald Latanision – Neil Armstrong Distinguished Visiting Professor Daniel B. Luten (instructor in architectural and sanitary engineering) – bridge builder who patented the Luten arch Robert E. Machol (professor of Electrical Engineering) – early writer on systems engineering Shimon Y. Nof (professor of Industrial Engineering) Nicholas A. Peppas (professor of Chemical Engineering) – biochemist and engineer best known for his research in hydrogels for drug delivery R. Byron Pipes (professor of Engineering) – former president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute A. Alan Pritsker (professor of Industrial Engineering) – pioneer in simulation modeling, creator of GERT and SLAM programs Joseph Paul Robinson (Distinguished Professor of Cytometry, professor of Biomedical Engineering and Computer and Information Management) – co-inventor of automated microbial classification systems using elastic laser light scatter and fluorescence detection technologies Vladimir Shalaev (professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and of Biomedical Engineering) – researcher of metamaterials, transformation optics, nanophotonics and plasmonics R. Norris Shreve (professor of Chemical Engineering) Shu Shien-Siu (professor of Engineering Science) Mete Sozen (professor of Structural Engineering) John W. Sutherland (professor and Fehsenfeld Family Head of Environmental and Ecological Engineering (EEE)) Rusi Taleyarkhan (professor of Nuclear Engineering) Yeram S. Touloukian (professor of Mechanical Engineering) – founder of the Thermophysical Properties Research Center Raymond Viskanta – ISI highly cited researcher in the field of heat transfer Steve Wereley (professor of Mechanical Engineering) – co-inventor of micro-particle image velocimetry Jerry Woodall (professor of Electrical Engineering) – inventor of first commercially viable red LEDs, winner of National Medal of Technology Henry T. Yang (professor of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering and dean of Engineering) – chancellor of the University of California, Santa Barbara

Humanities and social sciences Dorsey Armstrong – editor-in-chief of Arthuriana Louis René Beres – professor of Political Science James A. Berlin – theorist in the field of composition studies and the history of rhetoric and composition theory Marianne Boruch – poet and essayist Robert X. Browning – professor of Political Science Ronald Verlin Cassill – novelist, short story writer, reviewer, editor, painter, and lithographer Philip B. Coulter – political scientist Paul Draper – philosopher of religion, editor of the journal Philo William H. Gass – novelist and short story writer Roxane Gay – writer and editor Mark Harris – novelist and biographer Djelal Kadir – literature academic Brigit Pegeen Kelly – poet Emma Montgomery McRae – professor of Literature, dean of women Robert Melson – political scientist specializing in ethnic conflict and genocide Cheryl Mendelson – professor of philosophy, novelist, non-fiction writer Alan H. Monroe – creator of Monroe's motivated sequence Annie Smith Peck – professor of archaeology and Latin, mountaineer Victor Raskin – professor of Linguistics, founding editor of Humor: International Journal of Humor Research W. Charles Redding – professor of communication, "father" of organizational communication Gunther E. Rothenberg – military historian Kermit Scott – professor of philosophy, advocate for the poor, previously thought to be the namesake of Kermit the Frog Michael Stohl – political scientist

Management and economics Charalambos D. Aliprantis – economist who introduced Banach space and Riesz space methods in economic theory Frank Bass – professor of Industrial Administration, a founder of marketing science who developed the Bass diffusion model Michael A. Campion – professor of Management, psychologist Alok R. Chaturvedi – professor of MIS, founder and director of SEAS Laboratory of Krannert School of Management Elizabeth Hoffman – economist, now provost of Iowa State University Shailendra Raj Mehta – president and director of Mudra Institute of Communications Ahmedabad Raghavendra Rau – Rothschild Professor of Finance at the University of Cambridge Stanley Reiter – economist Vernon L. Smith – Nobel laureate in Economics in 2002

Pharmacy, health and human sciences Sugato Chakravarty – professor of consumer science, associateeEditor of the Journal of Financial Markets Lisa Hopp – nursing educator Richard Mattes – nutrition scientist Henry L. Roediger III – researcher of psychology and the human memory Peter Schönemann – professor of Psychological Sciences William H. Starbuck – researcher of cognitive psychology, organizational behavior, and organization theory Wei Zheng – pharmaceutical scientist

Science and mathematics Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar – professor of Mathematics, known for his contributions to singularity theory Ross H. Arnett, Jr. – entomologist and beetle researcher Struther Arnott – molecular biologist and cancer researcher Mikhail Atallah – computer scientist, researcher on algorithms and computer security Louis Auslander – mathematician David Avison – physicist and photographer John D. Axtell – chemist, agronomist, a discoverer of high-lysine sorghum Harry Beevers – plant physiologist Jeffrey Bennetzen – professor of Genetics Elisa Bertino – computer scientist, director of CERIAS Mary Ellen Bock – statistician, chair of the statistics department 1995–2010, president of the American Statistical Association in 2007 Dale L. Boger – medicinal and organic chemist Carl R. de Boor – assistant professor at Purdue University, won the John von Neumann Prize from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 1996 Louis de Branges de Bourcia – professor of Mathematics, proved the Bieberbach conjecture Herbert C. Brown – Nobel laureate in Chemistry in 1979 Alok R. Chaturvedi – professor in the Department of Computer Sciences; director of Purdue Homeland Security Institute; technical lead for the Sentient World Simulation project William S. Cleveland – computer scientist and statistician, known for significant contributions to local regression and data visualization; credited with defining and naming the field of data science Douglas Comer – computer scientist, Internet pioneer R. Graham Cooks – chemist, mass spectrometrist Bruce A. Craig – statistician known for his work in life sciences; director of the Statistical Consulting Service Burgess Davis – mathematician and statistician known for his work on martingales and the Burkholder–Davis–Gundy inequality Ronald DeVore – mathematician known for approximation theory, wavelet theory, compressive sensing Richard Duffin – physicist David S. Ebert – computer scientist, director of the U.S. DHS Center of Excellence (COE) in Visual Analytics (VACCINE) and the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS) Ahmed K. Elmagarmid – computer scientist, Executive Director of the Qatar Computing Research Institute Paul Erdős – professor of Mathematics, winner of the Wolf Prize in Mathematics in 1983/4 Ephraim Fischbach – physicist known for research on the fifth force Harley Flanders – mathematician and textbook author Joseph Francisco – atmospheric chemist, president of the American Chemical Society Walter Gautschi – mathematician, contributor to numerical analysis Jayanta Kumar Ghosh – statistician Alexander Gluhovsky – physicist and statistician known for his contributions to geophysical fluid dynamics and time series analysis in the geosciences Melvin Hochster – commutative algebraist Otto F. Hunziker – early head of Dairy department, supervised construction of Smith Hall Meyer Jerison – mathematician known for his work in functional analysis and rings Minhyong Kim – mathematician Robert R. Korfhage – computer scientist who contributed to information retrieval Karl Lark-Horovitz – pioneer in solid state physics, contributed to the invention of the first transistor Brian A. Larkins – molecular biologist Chris J. Leaver – botanist, now at the University of Oxford László Lempert – professor of mathematics, winner of Stefan Bergman Prize, 2001 Jingjing Liang – associate professor of forest ecology Bernard J. Liska – food scientist Sergey Macheret – physicist and aerospace engineer George P. McCabe – statistician Fred McLafferty – chemist who described the McLafferty rearrangement in mass spectrometry Edwin T. Mertz – chemist and biochemist who co-discovered high-lysine corn Dan Milisavljevic – astronomer and physicist David S. Moore – statistician John Ulric Nef – chemist who discovered the Nef reaction Ei-ichi Negishi – professor of Chemistry, Nobel laureate in Chemistry in 2010 Albert Overhauser – professor of Physics, discovered the Overhauser Effect Alan Perlis – professor of Mathematics, first person to win the Turing Award, in 1966 Justin Jesse Price – mathematician John R. Rice – professor of Computer Science, founding editor of ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software Arthur Rosenthal – mathematician, proved the Hartogs–Rosenthal theorem Michael G. Rossmann – professor of Biological Sciences, member of National Academy of Sciences, mapped human common cold virus, pointed out the Rossmann fold