Faye Duchin (/ˈdjuːtʃɪn/; born 1944) is an American Computer Scientist and Professor Emeritus of Economics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ("RPI"), where she was the Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences from 1996 to 2002.
Her faculty page at RPI stated that she was "concerned with ways of achieving economic development while avoiding environmental disasters."
Faye Duchin was raised in Bayonne, New Jersey, attended Cornell University, and received a BA in Experimental Psychology in 1965.
[6][7] was one of the founders and a managing editor of the journal Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Duchin has stated that she examines factors that could "make a difference in satisfying major global imperatives.
She claims to study physical realities and constraints, not just monetary values, by using process and engineering data to model technology and resource use.