The Leadership Team
Yannis C. Yortsos
Dean
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Gaurav Sukhatme
Executive Vice Dean of Engineering
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Ellis Meng
Vice Dean of Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship
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Brandi P. Jones
Vice Dean for Diversity and Strategic Initiatives
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Assad Oberai
Interim Vice Dean for Research
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Erik A. Johnson
Vice Dean for Academic Programs
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Mahta Moghaddam
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Craig Knoblock
Executive Director, USC Information Sciences Institute (through June 2020)
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Timothy Pinkston
Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs
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Linda Rock
Vice Dean for Administration
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Cauligi Raghavendra
Vice Dean for Global Academic Initiatives
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Mary Ann Schwartz
Sr. Associate Dean, Advancement
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Kelly Goulis
Sr. Associate Dean for Admission and Student Engagement
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Michael Chung
Associate Dean, Office of Communications & Marketing
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Christopher James
Chief Financial Officer
Department Chairs
Maged M. Dessouky
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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Julian A. Domaradzki
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
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Dan Erwin
Department of Astronautical Engineering
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Richard M. Leahy
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering (Systems)
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Anthony Levi
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering (Electrophysics)
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Michael Kassner
(Interim Chair)
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
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Cyrus Shahabi
Computer Science
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K. Kirk Shung
Biomedical Engineering
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Lucio Soibelman
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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Boards
Board of Councilors
Dwight J. Baum – Chair
Mike Abbott
Terry Adams
Sonny Astani
William F. Ballhaus, Jr.
Sujata Banerjee
Christopher Borch
Michael Christenson
Leo Chu
Malcom R. Currie, USC Life Trustee
Kenneth C. Dahlberg
Feng Deng
Albert Dorman
Daniel J. Epstein, USC Trustee
Alan J. Fohrer
Katrina Garnett
Hester Gill
Stayce D. Harris
Ming Hsieh, USC Trustee
Karl A. Jacob III
Lawrence Kellner
Ken R. Klein, USC Trustee
Harel Kodesh
David A. Lane
Fariborz Maseeh
Bryan B. Min
John Mork, USC Trustee
Donald L. Paul
Debra Reed
John Shea
Ken Simril
Walter H. Singer
Megan Smith
Mark A. Stevens, USC Trustee
Thomas Vice
Andrew J. Viterbi, USC Trustee
William Wang
Jeffrey J. Wilcox
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
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
Atman Kadakia – Vice Chair
Lydia Froemelt Madden – Vice Chair
Farzana Ansari
Lyssa Aruda
Shira Bernard
Emily Brink
Kameron Burk
Franklin Cheng
Rhea Choudhury
Promita Deb
Reed Doucette
Ali Fakhari
Mike Ghaffary
David Hodge
Aaron Ishikawa
Justin Jameson
Preethi Kasireddy
Elton Kwok
Amy Lin
Merie Ludena McGrath
Juliana Martinelli
Rohan Mehra
Dara Mir
Natalie Monger
Rachel Morford
Anand Murthy
Shuntaro Nishi
Laura Pochowski
Charles Ralston
Paige Selby
Andrew Sims
Warren Tichenor II
Dave Wachtel
Craig Western
Jiangyang Zhang
Richard Zhou
The China & East Asia 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.
Feng Deng – Chair
Simon Cao
Hok-Hei (Charles) Chong
Leo Chu
Joseph Fan
Chengyu Fu, USC Trustee
Ming Hsieh, USC Trustee
Bill Huang
Kenneth Koo
Wendy Ngan
Bing Janson Shi
Anne Sutanto
Stan Wang
Kevin Wei
Alex Xu
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
Rahul Bhati
Srinivas Chinamilli
Ashok Das
Ananth Goenka
Sanjeev Joshi
K. Ananth Krishnan
Priyanka Mittal
Greg Moran
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Ranjit Nair
N. Narendra
Dave Ranson
Nitin Sharma
Kiran Mazumdar Shaw
Kumar Sivarajan
Sandeep Tandon
Gautam Y. Trivedi
Rajan Vasa
Vishal Wanchoo