This list of University of Texas at Austin faculty includes current and former instructors and administrators of the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), a major research university located in Austin, Texas that is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System.[1][2][3] Founded in 1883, the university has had the fifth largest single-campus enrollment in the nation as of Fall 2006 (and had the largest enrollment in the country from 1997 to 2003), with over 50,000 undergraduate and graduate students and 16,500 faculty and staff.[4] It currently holds the largest enrollment of all colleges in the state of Texas.[5]
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David Heymann |
Architecture |
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Professor, Harwell Hamilton Harris Regents Professor in Architecture, and Distinguished Teaching Professor |
No |
[7] |
Juan Miró |
Architecture |
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Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs, David Bruton, Jr. Centennial Professor in Urban Design, Distinguished Teaching Professor, Academy of Distinguished Teachers University of Texas, and Director of Studio Mexico |
No |
[8] |
Lawrence Speck |
Architecture |
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Professor, The W. L. Moody, Jr. Centennial Professor in Architecture, and Distinguished Teaching Professor |
No |
[9] |
Michael Benedikt |
Architecture |
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Professor, Hal Box Endowed Chair in Urbanism, Distinguished Professor of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), Director of the Center for American Architecture and Design |
No |
[10] |
Steven Moore |
Architecture |
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Bartlett Cocke Regents Professor in Architecture |
No |
[11] |
Samuel E. Gideon |
Architecture, Architectural History (Texas) |
1931–1945 |
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No |
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Matthew McConaughey |
Radio-Television-Film |
2019–Present |
Film degree, The University of Texas at Austin, 1993. Visiting co-teacher for Script to Screen film production since 2015. Academy Award-winning actor with production of over 50 films. |
Yes |
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Oscar Mink |
Curriculum and Instruction |
1973 - 2004 |
Assistant professor Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1961–1964. Senior scientist, manager Management & Executive Development-Xerox Corporation, Rochester, 1964–1966. Associate professor, director division clinical studies West Virginia University, Morgantown, 1966–1970, Associate professor, consultant West Virginia College Graduate Studies, Institute, 1972–1973. Professor University Texas, Austin, from 1973. Consultant Telecom, Australia, since 1988. |
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Willis Adcock |
Electrical Engineering |
1986-1993 |
Assisted with invention of the silicon transistor and integrated circuit; Fellow of AAAS and IEEE; US National Academy of Engineering |
No |
[14] |
Alan Bovik |
Electrical Engineering |
1984–present |
Invented visual quality measurement, monitoring, and control tools used throughout the global photographic, television, cinematic, streaming, and social media industries; IEEE Edison Medal; Primetime Emmy Award; Technology and Engineering Emmy Award; RPS Progress Medal; IEEE Fourier Award; Edwin H. Land Medal; US National Academy of Engineering |
No |
[15] |
Edith Clarke |
Electrical Engineering |
1947-1957 |
First woman faculty member of electrical engineering in the US; power engineer; inventor of Clarke Calculator and method of symmetrical components; Fellow of IEEE; Society of Women Engineers Achievement Award |
No |
[16] |
Donglei Fan |
Mechanical Engineering |
2010–present |
Principal investigator of the Nanomaterial Innovation Lab; developed techniques for moving nanostructures; built fast nanomotors |
No |
[17] |
John B. Goodenough |
Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering |
1986–present |
Research led to the first lithium-ion battery; Nobel Prize in Chemistry; Charles Stark Draper Prize; Japan Prize; National Medal of Science; Enrico Fermi Award; Copley Medal; US National Academy of Engineering |
No |
[18] |
Moriba K. Jah |
Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics |
2017–present |
Disruptive research in Space Situational Awareness, Astrodynamics, Space Traffic Management, and Space Security; Director of Computational Astronautical Sciences and Technologies;[19] Macarthur Fellow; Distinguished Scholar at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law;[20] International Academy of Astronautics |
No |
[21] |
Robert M. Metcalfe |
Electrical Engineering |
2011–present |
Inventor of Ethernet; founded 3Com Corporation; recipient of ACM Turing Award in 2023, IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal in 1988, IEEE Medal of Honor in 1996, National Medal of Technology in 2005; inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2007; Fellow Award from the Computer History Museum in 2008; US National Academy of Engineering |
No |
[22] |
Yale Patt |
Electrical Engineering |
1999–present |
Breakthroughs in computer architecture to make faster processors; inventor of the WOS module; the first complex logic gate implemented on a single piece of silicon; Fellow of ACM and IEEE; US National Academy of Engineering |
No |
[23] |
Nicholas A. Peppas |
Biomedical Engineering |
?-present |
Pioneer in drug delivery, biomaterials, hydrogels and nanobiotechnology; US National Academy of Engineering |
No |
[24] |
Michael Webber |
Mechanical Engineering |
2006–present |
Deputy Director of the university's Energy Institute; host of PBS's Energy at the Movies |
Yes |
[25] |
Mohit Tiwari |
Electrical and Computer Engineering |
2013-Present |
Associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; holds the Raytheon Company Faculty Fellowship |
No |
[26] |
James "Jimmy" Robert Holmes Sr. |
Mechanical Engineering |
1940s–1970s |
Associate Professor |
Yes |
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Sharon Mosher |
Dean's Office |
2009–present |
Dean, William Stamps Farish Chair |
No |
[32] |
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Carolyn Heinrich |
Center for Health and Social Policy (CHASP) |
2011–present |
Sid Richardson Professor of Public Affairs |
No |
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A. M. Harun-ar-Rashid |
Physics |
1975 |
Quantum field theory, relativity, mechanics |
No |
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Robert S. Boyer |
Computer Science |
1981–2008 |
Co-inventor of the Boyer–Moore string-search algorithm; co-creator of the Nqthm and ACL2 theorem provers |
Yes |
[53] |
Molly S. Bray |
Pediatrics |
2013 |
Geneticist, Chair of the Department of Nutritional Sciences and Susan T. Jastrow Chair for Excellence in Nutritional Sciences |
No |
[54] |
Ruth Buskirk |
Biology |
1990–present |
Molecular genetics, microbiology |
No |
[55] |
K. Mani Chandy |
Computer Science |
1970–1989 |
Distributed computing, including the Chandy-Lamport Algorithm for the determination of consistent global states |
No |
[56] |
Edsger W. Dijkstra |
Computer Science |
1984–2000 |
Numerous foundational contributions to various computing disciplines, especially programming languages, formal verification, and distributed computing; Turing Award for fundamental contributions in the area of programming languages; ACM Fellow |
No |
[57] |
Livia S. Eberlin |
Chemistry |
2016–present |
Co-inventor of the "MasSpec Pen," MacArthur "Genius" Grant and Sloan Research Fellowship, numerous other awards and honors |
No |
[58] |
E. Allen Emerson |
Computer Science |
?-present |
Turing Award for "developing model checking into a highly effective verification technology, widely adopted in the hardware and software industries" |
Yes |
[59] |
Katherine Freese |
Physics |
2019–present |
Winner of the 2019 Lilienfeld Prize |
No |
[60] |
Kristen L. Grauman |
Computer Science |
2007–present |
Professor; researcher, computer vision and machine learning; elected to UT's Academy of
Distinguished Teachers in 2017 |
No |
[61] |
David M. Hillis |
Biology |
1987–present |
1999 MacArthur Fellow |
No |
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Simon S. Lam |
Computer Science |
1977–present |
Co-inventor of Secure Sockets Layer; ACM Fellow; elected to the National Academy of Engineering |
No |
[62] |
J Strother Moore |
Computer Science |
1981–1988, 1997–present |
Co-inventor of the Boyer–Moore string-search algorithm; co-creator of the Nqthm and ACL2 theorem provers; ACM Fellow; elected to the National Academy of Engineering; department chair 2001-2009 |
No |
[63] |
Nancy A. Moran |
Integrative Biology |
2013–present |
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; elected to the National Academy of Sciences; 2010 winner of the International Prize for Biology |
Yes |
[64] |
Lili Qiu |
Computer Science |
2005–present |
Elected as an ACM Fellow in 2018 for "contributions to the design and analysis of wireless network protocols and mobile systems", known for her research on wireless networks |
No |
[59] |
Sahotra Sarkar |
Integrative Biology |
1990–present |
Specialist in the history and philosophy of science |
No |
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E. C. George Sudarshan |
Theoretical Physics |
1969-2018 |
Glauber–Sudarshan P representation, Lindbladian, Tachyon, Spin–statistics theorem, Quantum Zeno effect |
No |
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Karen Uhlenbeck |
Mathematics |
1987-2014 |
Recipient of the 2019 Abel Prize; held Sid W. Richardson Foundation Regents Chair in her time at the University of Texas at Austin; in 2000, won the National Medal of Science |
No |
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Robert van de Geijn |
Computer Science |
1987–present |
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No |
[67] |
Rachel Ward |
Mathematics |
2011–present |
Received the IMA Prize in Mathematics and Applications in 2016; co-researcher on developing efficient algorithms using limited data |
Yes |
[68] |
Steven Weinberg |
Physics |
1982–2021 |
Nobel Laureate, author |
No |
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History, archive, and library science
- Eugene C. Barker — Texas historian, chair of the history department, academic journal editor
- Nettie Lee Benson – historian, archivist, and the namesake of the Benson Latin American Collection
- Walter L. Buenger – historian of the American South
- Daina Ramey Berry – History Department Chair, historian specializing in gender, slavery, and black women
- H. W. Brands – author, historian, Jack S. Blanton, Sr. Chair of history
- Carlos Castañeda (historian) – historian, librarian, and archivist
- Robert Cotner – historian, biographer of James Stephen Hogg
- Louis Tuffly Ellis
- Toyin Falola – author and historian specializing in African studies
- Joe Bertram Frantz – historian, biographer
- George Pierce Garrison – one of the founding faculty members of the Department of History
- A. G. Hopkins – professor emeritus, economic history
- Madeline Y. Hsu – Asian-American and Chinese American history
- Brian P. Levack – professor emeritus, early modern Europe
- Philippa Levine – historian specializing in gender, race, and science; Walter Prescott Webb Professor of History and Ideas
- Steven Mintz – historian
- Joan Neuberger – Russian and Soviet history
- David Oshinsky – professor emeritus
- Charles W. Ramsdell – historian
- Jeremi Suri – historian, Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Global Affairs
- Ann Twinam – professor emeritus, historian, Colonial Latin America
- Walter Prescott Webb – historian of Texas and the American West
- Amelia Worthington Williams – Texas historian
Journalism and publishing
Science and technology
- Eric J. Barron, former dean of College of Geosciences; current Director of National Center for Atmospheric Research
- Adi Bulsara, PhD, 1978 (physics) - leading physicist in the area of nonlinear dynamics
- Franklin C. Crow — computer scientist
- Bryce DeWitt — physicist, co-developed Wheeler-DeWitt equation ("wave function of the Universe")
- Cécile DeWitt-Morette – mathematical physicist
- Gordon Gunter — instructor in physiology (1939-1945), then researcher (1945-1949), acting director (1949-1954) and director (1954-1955) of the University of Texas Institute of Marine Science at Port Aransas and editor of Publications of the Institute of Marine Science (1950-1955); influential fisheries scientist who pioneered the study of fisheries in the northern Gulf of Mexico
- G.B. Halsted — mathematician
- Clark Hubbs — ichthyologist
- William H. Jefferys — astronomer
- Zhimin Lu — biologist and oncologist
- Chris Mack — photolithographer
- Hans Mark — aerospace engineer, former Deputy Administrator at NASA and Secretary of the Air Force
- Thomas Harrison Montgomery, Jr. — zoologist
- Hermann Joseph Muller — geneticist, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine
- Ilya Prigogine — physicist and chemist, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
- Bill Schelter — mathematician, Lisp developer
- Roy Schwitters — physicist, former director of the now-defunct Superconducting Super Collider
- Elliot See — astronaut
- Jonathan Sessler — chemist, pioneering work on expanded porphyrins
- John Tate — mathematician, Wolf Prize in Mathematics
- Harry Vandiver — mathematician
- John Archibald Wheeler — physicist, Wolf Prize in Physics, coined the term 'black hole'
- Robert E. Wyatt – chemist
"Architecture Facluty [sic] Gets New Instructor: Samuel E. Gideon of Massachusetts Coming in Fall". The Austin Statesman: 6. June 15, 1931.
"Ernest Kaulbach". Department of English. The University of Texas at Austin. Archived from the original on 1 May 2019. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
"Jerome Loving". Department of English. University of Texas at Austin. Archived from the original on June 20, 2018. Retrieved October 30, 2017.