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VIII. Visitors From Other Universities Who Will Teach at NYU Shanghai in 2015-‐16 (continued)
Krishnamurthi
Ravishankar
Visiting Professor
2014-‐15
2015-‐16
Professor at SUNY New Paltz. Scholar of probability theory
and mathematical economics. Teaches Theory of
Probability at NYU Shanghai.
Leonardo
Rolla
Visiting Assistant
Professor
2014-‐15
2015-‐16
Tenured researcher of the Argentinian National Research
Council. Scholar of mathematics. Teaches Calculus at NYU
Shanghai.
Sakar
Pudasaini
Visiting Assistant
Arts Professor
Founder, Karkhana education startup, Kathmandu, Nepal;
teaches in the Interactive Media Arts program at NYU
Shanghai
Owen Roberts Visiting Art
Professor
Adjunct Assistant Professor at Manhattan Community
College. Many performances and exhibitions. Teaches
Communications Lab at NYU Shanghai
Emmanuel
Schertzer
Visiting Assistant
Professor of
Mathematics
Assistant Professor at Universite Pierre & Marie Curie.
LPMA (Laboratoire de Probabilite et Modeles Aleatoires)
and former postdoctoral fellow at Princeton; scholar of
probability theory. Teaches in the Mathematics program at
NYU Shanghai
Tansen Sen
Visiting Professor of
History
Professor, Baruch College of the City University of New
York, scholar of China-‐India relations from early Buddhism
to Zheng He to the present; Director, NYU Shanghai Center
for Global Asia; teaches Chinese Maritime History at NYU
Shanghai
Offer Shapir
Visiting Assistant
Professor
2014-‐15
2015-‐16
Scholar of empirical finance, credit risk, and behavioral
finance. Previously taught at Ben-‐Gurion University.
Teaches Calculus Workshop and Introduction to
Microeconomics at NYU Shanghai.
Yossi Shavit
Visiting Professor of
Social Sciences
Weinberg Professor of Sociology at Tel Aviv University and
President of the Israeli Sociological Society; scholar of social
inequality and the sociology of education. Teaches in the
Integrated Social Science program at NYU Shanghai
Zhan Shi
Visiting Assistant
Professor of
Mathematics
Professor at Laboratoire de Probabilites et Modeles
Aleatoires, Paris-‐6 and Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris.
Teaches in the Mathematics program at NYU Shanghai.
Roopa
Vasudevan
Visiting Assistant
Arts Professor
NYU Tisch ITP instructor, developer of digital and broadcast
video; teaches in the Interactive Media Arts program at NYU
Shanghai.
Gabriel
Weimann
Visiting Professor of
Social Sciences
Professor of Communication, University of Haifa, Israel;
teaches Methods of Social Research at NYU Shanghai.
Arthur Larry
Wright
Visiting Professor
2014-‐15
2015-‐16
Also adjunct professor at Columbia. Scholar of probability
theory, statistics, and financial engineering. Teaches
Precalculus at NYU Shanghai.
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VIII. Visitors From Other Universities Who Will Teach at NYU Shanghai in 2015-‐16 (continued)
Rodrigo
Zeidan
Visiting Assistant
Professor
2014-‐15
2015-‐16
Also associate professor at Fundação Dom Cabral, Brazil.
Scholar of industrial economics and international
economics. Teaches Economics of Global Business at NYU
Shanghai.
Almaz Zelleke Visiting Assistant
Professor of Politics
Phd, Harvard University, teaches Global Perspectives on
Society and Social Science at NYU Shanghai
Mark Zheng
Visiting Assistant
Professor of
Chemistry
PhD, Rensellaer Polytechnic; teaches Foundations of
Science at NYU Shanghai
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IX. Visitors From Other Universities Who Taught at NYU Shanghai in Prior Years (if not shown in
VIII above)
Douglas
Abraham
Visiting Professor
2014-‐15
Emeritus professor at Oxford University. Scholar of
statistical mechanics. Co-‐author or author of over 125
published articles. Taught Advanced Linear Algebra II at
NYU Shanghai.
Marie
Albenque
Visiting Professor
2013-‐14
CNRS researcher at École Polytechnique. Scholar of
combinatorics in models of random trees, maps and
graphs. Taught Analysis at NYU Shanghai.
Shmuel
Bittner
Visiting Professor
2014-‐15
Professor emeritus at Ben-‐Gurion University. Scholar of
synthetic organic chemistry. Taught Organic Chemistry at
NYU Shanghai.
Pierlugi
Contucci
Visiting Professor
2014-‐15
Professor at Università di Bologna. Scholar of
mathematical physics and statistical mechanics. Many
honors, including Max Planck Society Schloessman Prize;
Istituto Cattaneo member. Taught Calculus Emphasizing
Proofs at NYU Shanghai.
Thierry De
Pauw
Visiting Professor
2014-‐15
Professor at Université Denis Diderot.
Scholar of differential equations and geometric measure
theory. Taught mathematics at NYU Shanghai
Nicola Di
Cosmo
Visiting Professor
2014-‐15
Chaired professor at the Institute for Advanced Study,
Princeton. Scholar of East Asia, particularly the history of
nomadic peoples in East and Central Asia. Taught Intro to
the Use of Scientific Data in Historical Research and The
Mongols at NYU Shanghai.
Adrien
Deloro
Visiting Assistant
Professor
2013-‐14
Assistant professor at University of Paris 6, former
assistant professor at Rutgers. Scholar of model and group
theory. Taught Calculus at NYU Shanghai.
William Faris Visiting Professor
2014-‐15
Professor emeritus at the University of Arizona. Scholar of
mathematical physics, applied probability, and
combinatorics. He has published over 50 articles in
mathematics and mathematical physics. Taught Analysis at
NYU Shanghai.
Magnus
Fiskesjo
Visiting Associate
Professor
2014-‐15
Associate professor at Cornell University. Scholar of
anthropology. Former director of Museum of Far Eastern
Antiquities, Stockholm. Taught Global Cultural Heritage at
NYU Shanghai.
Scott Fritzen
Associate Provost
2013-‐14
2014-‐15
Professor at the University of Washington. Former interim
dean of NYU Wagner, vice dean of National U of Singapore
School of Public Policy. Scholar of public sector reform.
Former Fulbright fellow. Several editorial boards. Taught
Introduction to Policy Analysis at NYU Shanghai.
Alexander
Goldenshluge
r
Visiting Professor
2014-‐15
Professor at the University of Haifa. Scholar of
mathematical statistics. Taught Calculus at NYU Shanghai.
Michael
Grubb
Visiting Assistant
Professor
2014-‐15
Former postdoc at NYU NY. Scholar of attention,
perception, and decision making. Taught Introduction to
Neural Science at NYU Shanghai.