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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School of Architecture [ edit ]
Name
School
Service
Notability
Alumnus
Reference
David Heymann
Architecture
Professor, Harwell Hamilton Harris Regents Professor in Architecture, and Distinguished Teaching Professor
No
[ 7]
Juan Miró
Architecture
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
Professor, The W. L. Moody, Jr. Centennial Professor in Architecture, and Distinguished Teaching Professor
No
[ 9]
Michael Benedikt
Architecture
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
Bartlett Cocke Regents Professor in Architecture
No
[ 11]
Samuel E. Gideon
Architecture, Architectural History (Texas)
1931–1945
No
[ 12]
Moody College of Communication [ edit ]
Name
Department
Service
Notability
Alumnus
Reference
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
[ 13]
College of Education [ edit ]
Name
Department
Service
Notability
Alumnus
Reference
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.
No
Cockrell School of Engineering [ edit ]
Name
Department
Service
Notability
Alumnus
Reference
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
College of Fine Arts [ edit ]
Jackson School of Geosciences [ edit ]
Name
Department
Service
Notability
Alumnus
Reference
Sharon Mosher
Dean's Office
2009–present
Dean, William Stamps Farish Chair
No
[ 32]
College of Liberal Arts [ edit ]
Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs [ edit ]
Name
Department
Service
Notability
Alumnus
Reference
Carolyn Heinrich
Center for Health and Social Policy (CHASP)
2011–present
Sid Richardson Professor of Public Affairs
No
[ 48]
McCombs School of Business [ edit ]
College of Natural Sciences [ edit ]
Name
Department
Service
Notability
Alumnus
Reference
A. M. Harun-ar-Rashid
Physics
1975
Quantum field theory, relativity, mechanics
No
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
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
E. C. George Sudarshan
Theoretical Physics
1969-2018
Glauber–Sudarshan P representation , Lindbladian , Tachyon , Spin–statistics theorem , Quantum Zeno effect
No
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
[ 65] [ 66]
Robert van de Geijn
Computer Science
1987–present
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
[ 69]
Name
Department
Service
Notability
Alumnus
Reference
College of Pharmacy [ edit ]
Name
Department
Service
Notability
Alumnus
Reference
School of Social Work [ edit ]
Name
Department
Service
Notability
Alumnus
Reference
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Accounting and finance [ edit ]
Arts and entertainment [ edit ]
History, archive, and library science[ edit ]
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 [ edit ]
Languages and literature [ edit ]
Science and technology [ edit ]
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
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