Howard L. Resnikoff

Howard Leonard Resnikoff (May 13, 1937 – March 5, 2018) was an American mathematician and business executive.

Resnikoff was born in New York City on May 13, 1937. He obtained a bachelor's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and earned a doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley under the supervision of Ádám Korányi. Resnikoff began teaching at Rice University in 1967. He joined the University of California, Irvine faculty in 1975. He became an associate vice president at Harvard University in 1981, serving until 1983. Resnikoff worked for Thinking Machines Corporation and founded Aware, Inc. after leaving Harvard, as well as FutureWave, Inc. and in later life served on the board of governors of the Jacobs University Bremen and was president and chairman of the institution's Foundation of America. Resnikoff's wife Joan is a painter and ceramic artist. He died on March 5, 2018.