Ben Weinkove

Ben Weinkove

Madan Lal Puri Professor of Mathematics, Northwestern University

I received my PhD at Columbia University in 2004 under the supervision of D.H. Phong. I held positions as a Benjamin Peirce Assistant Professor at Harvard University, a Royal Society Research Assistant at Imperial College London and a faculty member at the University of California, San Diego, before arriving in Northwestern as Professor in January 2013.  I served as department chair from September 2021 to September 2024.  

My pure mathematics research work is on partial differential equations and geometric analysis.  

I am also interested in neural networks and the mathematical foundations of AI. I developed and will be teaching the course MATH 364 Mathematical Foundations of Deep Learning.

Since 2017 I have been a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Here is my math genealogy. 

Here is my CV (Updated September 2026).