Carnegie Mellon University Faculty

Jerome Apt; Professor; former NASA astronaut and now Professor of Technology, Executive Director of Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center, Graduate School of Industrial Administration.

Elizabeth Bailey; Professor 1983-1991; former Dean and Professor of Economics, Industrial Administration, and Public Policy, Graduate School of Industrial Administration now John C. Hower Professor of Business and Public Policy at Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Kathleen Carley; Professor; Computational sociologist and pioneer of dynamic network analysis.
William W. Cooper; Professor; professor of operations research and accounting at the Tepper School of Business and founding Dean of the Heinz College.

Robyn Dawes; Professor; pioneer in the field of mathematical psychology.
Kenneth B. Dunn; Professor 1979-1987, 2002-present; Dean of Tepper School of Business, former Managing director of Morgan Stanley.

David Farber; Professor 2003-present; co-creator of ARPANET and form Chief Technologist for the FCC.

James Goodby; Professor 1989-present; Distinguished Service Professor of Engineering and Public Policy, former US Foreign Service Officer including US Ambassador to Finland 1980-1981.

Terrence Hayes; National Book Award winner in 2010 for his poetry book, "Lighthead."
John Heinz III; faculty member 1970-1971; Senator from Pennsylvania.
Geoffrey Hinton; Professor 1982-1987; computer scientist known for his work on artificial neutral networks, part-time Google researcher, co-inventor of the back propagation and contrastive divergence training algorithms, and important figure in the deep learning movement.
Henry Hornbostel; Professor; founded the Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture and designed original buildings on campus.
Watts Humphrey; Professor; former Vice President of IBM, Fellow of Software Engineering Institute.
Jeffrey Hunker; Professor; Senior director for Critical Infrastructure for the US National Security Council 1999-2001; Deputy Assistant to the Secretary of Commerce 1996-1998; senior department of commerce official for environmental policy 1996-1998; former Senior policy advisor to the secretary of commerce 1993-1996; former Dean of the Heinz College.

Roberta Klatzky; Professor; cognitive scientist and leading researcher in hap tics.

Margot Livesey; author of six novels, short stories, and essays on fiction.
George Loewenstein; Professor; pioneer in the field of Behavioral economics and faculty in the department of social and decision sciences.

Brian MacWhinney; Professor; leading language acquisition researcher and creator of the CHILDES database.

Jon Peha; Professor; Chief Technologist for the FCC.

Richard Rashid; Professor 1979-1991; computer scientist, Microsoft Research SVP.

Walter Dill Scott; Professor 1916-1918; pioneer in applied psychology, President of the American Psychological Association; President of Northwestern University.
Kathryn Shaw; Professor 1981-2003; member of the Council of Economic Advisors, Executive Officer of the President 1999-2001.
Alfred Spector; Professor; Vice President of Research and Special Initiatives at Google.

Sridhar Tayur; Professor; Ford Distinguished Research Chair and Professor of Operations Management, Founder of SmartOps Corporation and OrganJet Corporation.

Arnold R. Weber; Professor and Provost; professor in economics and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University and President of the University of Colorado and Northwestern University.

Jerome Wolken; 1917-1999; biophysicist and head of biology department.

Clarence Zener; Professor 1968-1993; theoretical physicist, namesake of the Zener diode, Zener voltage and Zener pinning.