Silver Professor; Professor of Mathematics
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
1972 (physiology), Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
Research Interests
Application of mathematics and computing to problems arising in medicine and biology, fluid dynamics of the heart, molecular machinery within biological cells.
Selected Fellowships/Honors
- 2003 Birkhoff Prize in Applied Mathematics from AMS-SIAM
- Mayor’s Award for Excellence in Science and Technology, 1994
- Josiah Willard Gibbs Lecturer, American Mathematical Society, 1993
- MacArthur Fellowship, 1983-1988