Leadership

Yannis C. Yortsos
Dean
Zohrab Kaprielian Chair in Engineering and holder of the Chester Dolley Professorship

Yannis C. Yortsos is the Dean of the University of Southern California (USC) Viterbi School of Engineering and the Zohrab Kaprielian Dean’s Chair in Engineering, a position he has held since 2005. Yortsos joined the USC faculty of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering in 1978.
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Gaurav Sukhatme
Executive Vice Dean of Engineering

Gaurav S. Sukhatme is Professor of Computer Science and Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC). He holds the Fletcher Jones Foundation Endowed Chair in Computer Science and serves as the Executive Vice Dean at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering.
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Ellis Meng

Ellis Meng
Vice Dean of Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship and Shelly and Ofer Nemirovsky Chair in Convergent Bioscience

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Erik Johnson

Erik A. Johnson
Vice Dean for Academic Programs

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Mahta Moghaddam

Mahta Moghaddam
Vice Dean for Research and Ming Hsieh Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering-Electrophysics

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Andrea Belz
Vice Dean for Transformative Initiatives

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Craig Knoblock

Craig Knoblock
Vice Dean of Engineering and Michael Keston Executive Director, USC Information Sciences Institute

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Randal-Hill

Randall Hill, Jr.
Vice Dean, Viterbi School of Engineering, Omar B. Milligan Professor in Computer Science (Games and Interactive Media); Executive Director, USC Institute for Creative Technologies

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Timothy Pinkston

Timothy Pinkston
Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs and George Pfleger Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Kimberly-L-Bregenzer

Kimberly Bregenzer
Vice Dean for Administration and Finance

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Cauligi Raghavendra

Cauligi Raghavendra
Vice Dean for Global Academic Initiatives

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Kelly Goulis
Sr. Associate Dean for Admission and Student Engagement

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Kaci Silverman
Sr. Associate Dean for Advancement

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Ken Bonner

Ken Bonner
Associate Dean for Inclusion and Diversity Initiatives

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Michael Chung

Michael Chung
Associate Dean, Office of Communications & Marketing

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Yolanda Gil
Director of New Initiatives in AI and Data Science

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Department Chairs

Maged M. Dessouky

Maged M. Dessouky
Chair - Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and Dean's Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering

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Paul D. Ronney
Chair - Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

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Dan Erwin

Dan Erwin
Chair - Department of Astronautical Engineering

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Richard Leahy

Richard M. Leahy
Chair - Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering (Systems) and Dean's Professor of Electrical Engineering

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Andrea Hodge

Andrea Hodge
Chair - Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and holder of the Arthur B. Freeman Professorship in Engineering

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Nenad (Neno) Medvidović
Chair - Computer Science

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Peter Yingxiao Wang

Peter Yingxiao Wang
Chair - Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering and Dwight C. and Hildagarde E. Baum Chair in Biomedical Engineering

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Burcin Becerik-Gerber
Chair - Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Dean's Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Boards

Board of Councilors

Terry Adams – Chair
Mike Abbott
Ron Antevy
Sonny Astani
William F. Ballhaus, Jr.
Sujata Banerjee
Dwight J. Baum
Brandon Blaylock
Christopher Borch
Gary Buntmann
Patrick Chraghchian
Michael Christenson
Leo Chu
Marian Croak
Heather Cruz
Kenneth C. Dahlberg
Feng Deng
Jonathan Emami
Daniel J. Epstein, USC Trustee
Alan J. Fohrer
Katrina Garnett
Hester Gill
Stayce D. Harris, USC Trustee
Linnie Haynesworth
Ming Hsieh, USC Trustee
Karl A. Jacob III
Ken R. Klein, USC Trustee
Harel Kodesh
David A. Lane
Fariborz Maseeh
Bryan B. Min
John Mork, USC Trustee
Donald L. Paul
Ken Simril
Walter H. Singer
Megan Smith
Mark A. Stevens, USC Trustee
Andrew J. Viterbi, USC Trustee
William Wang
Albert J. Williams
Carla Mann Woods
Ron Zeff

Corporate Advisory Board

Steve Acevedo - Agave/Regatta Solutions

Andrzej Banaszuk - United Technologies Research Center

Lisa Callahan - Lockheed Martin

Marian Croak – Google

Andre Doumitt - Aerospace Corporation

David Eun - Samsung NEXT

Daron Green - Facebook

John Murnane - Northrop Grumman

Anand Oswal - Cisco Systems

Purnima Padmanabhan - VMware

Luis Pineda – Qualcomm (Retired)

Todd Stevens - California Resource Corp.

Scott Strode - Boeing

Gilroy Vandentop - Intel Systems

Roberto Vasquez - General Atomics

Roy Zimmerman – Microsoft

The Emerging Leaders Board

Rhea Choudhury – Chair Emerita
Lyssa Aruda
Joseph Chen
Ben Forman
Laura Bowser
Emma Calderone
Franklin Cheng
Tracy Dooley – Chair Emerita
Shawn Gong
Matthew Engel
Ali Fakhari – Chair Emeritus
Wilson Kyi
Zach Gima
David Reese
Lorenzo Laxamana
Rachel Morford – Interim Chair
Sheetal Madnani
Jasmine Naseri
Shuntaro Nishi
Andy Sherman
Steven Schwartz
Natalie Vais
Richard Zhou

The East Asia & China Advisory Board

The mission of the board is threefold: advise the dean on matters related to the school in the region; serve as advocate and ambassador for the school in the region; and support USC Viterbi in its development efforts among its constituencies. The board works to strengthen the relationship of the school with alumni, parents, friends and corporations in China and East Asia and serves as a key platform for establishing close relationships between USC Viterbi and local constituencies.

Kevin Wei – Chair
Feng Deng
Hok-Hei (Charles) Chong
Leo Chu
Chengyu Fu
Ming Hsieh, USC Trustee
Kenneth Koo
Wendy Ngan
Bi Ran
Anne Sutanto
Stan Wang
Hao Wu
Robert Xiao
Dixon Zhang
Jeff Zhao

The India Advisory Board

The India Board serves many functions: to advise the dean; advocate for the school in India; strengthen ties with India alumni; and raise philanthropic support in the area of education. The board is the first ever such advisory body for U.S. engineering schools and reflects the growing ties of USC Viterbi in India. Dean Yannis C. Yortsos characterized its formation as “an important step to cementing and further building the strong relationship between the USC Viterbi School of Engineering and its Indian constituencies.”

Srinath Batni – Chair
Arvind Balaji
Srinivas Chinamilli
Priyanka Mittal
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Ranjit Nair
Shriram Nene
Nitin Sharma
Kiran Mazumdar Shaw
Saurabh Singhal
Kumar Sivarajan
Savipal Soin
Sandeep Tandon
Viral Thakker
Gautam Y. Trivedi
Rajan Vasa

Published on December 16th, 2016

Last updated on November 19th, 2024