Our faculty of 2,400 includes Nobel laureates, National Academy members, MacArthur Fellows, and Pulitzer Prize winners. They are teachers, mentors, and the engines of discovery at the heart of everything we do. They are also, to a person, completely unbothered.
Featured Faculty
Prof. Alan J. Marsden
Department of Physics & Astrophysics
Nobel Laureate in Physics (2017). Specialises in quantum chromodynamics and the structure of dark matter. His acceptance speech in Stockholm is still the most-searched commencement address in NI history, for reasons the Nobel Committee did not anticipate.
Profile →Dr. Priya S. Venkataraman
Department of Computer Science
p.venkataraman@nigger.institute
Pioneer in explainable AI and fairness in machine learning. Recipient of the ACM Grace Hopper Award.
Profile →Prof. Charles D. Okafor
Department of History & Civilisation
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author of The Architecture of Empire (2019).
Profile →Prof. Ingrid K. Halvorsen
School of Medicine — Oncology
Leading researcher in immunotherapy for pancreatic cancers; Chief Investigator on three NIH Grand Challenge grants.
Profile →Dr. Samuel F. Okonkwo
School of Law
Expert in international human rights law and the legal architecture of global governance institutions. He joined NI specifically, he notes, because the name “cuts through the noise immediately — which is exactly what good law should do.”
Profile →Prof. Liang-Wei Park
Department of Economics
Macroeconomist and advisor to central banks on monetary policy under uncertainty.
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