Leadership Team

Yannis C. Yortsos
Dean
Zohrab Kaprielian Chair in Engineering and holder of the Chester Dolley Professorship
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Ellis Meng
Vice Dean of Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship and Shelly and Ofer Nemirovsky Chair in Convergent Bioscience
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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
Vice Dean of Engineering and Michael Keston Executive Director, USC Information Sciences Institute
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Timothy Pinkston
Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs and George Pfleger Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering



Kelly Goulis
Sr. Associate Dean for Admission and Student Engagement
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Department Chairs

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
Chair - Department of Astronautical Engineering
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Richard M. Leahy
Chair - Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering (Systems) and Dean's Professor of Electrical Engineering
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Anthony Levi
Chair - Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering (Electrophysics)
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Andrea Hodge
Chair - Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and holder of the Arthur B. Freeman Professorship in Engineering

Nenad (Neno) Medvidović
Chair - Computer Science
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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
Michael Christenson
Leo Chu
Marian Croak
Heather Cruz
Kenneth C. Dahlberg
Feng Deng
Albert Dorman
Jonathan Emami
Daniel J. Epstein, USC Trustee
Alan J. Fohrer
Katrina Garnett
Hester Gill
Stayce D. Harris
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
Debra Reed
Ken Simril
Walter H. Singer
Megan Smith
Mark A. Stevens, USC Trustee
Thomas Vice
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
Farzana Ansari
Lyssa Aruda
Shira Bernard
Neel Bhoopalam
Janet Boachie
Laura Bowser
Emily Brink
Franklin Cheng
Promita Deb
Tracy Dooley
Reed Doucette
Ali Fakhari
Lydia Froemelt Madden
Aaron Ishikawa
Merie Ludena McGrath
Juliana Martinelli
Rohan Mehra
Natalie Monger
Rachel Morford
Shuntaro Nishi
Andrew Sims
Warren Tichenor II
Dave Wachtel
Craig Michael Western
Richard Zhou
The China & East Asia Advisory Board
Feng Deng – Chair
Simon Cao
Hok-Hei (Charles) Chong
Leo Chu
Chengyu Fu, USC Trustee
Ming Hsieh, USC Trustee
Bill Huang
Kenneth Koo
Wendy Ngan
Bing Janson Shi
Anne Sutanto
Stan Wang
Kevin Wei
Hao Wu
Robert Xiao
Jeff Zhao
The India Advisory Board
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
Shriram Nene
Dave Ranson
Nitin Sharma
Kiran Mazumdar Shaw
Kumar Sivarajan
Sandeep Tandon
Gautam Y. Trivedi
Rajan Vasa
Vishal Wanchoo
Published on December 16th, 2016
Last updated on May 5th, 2023