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

Director of New Research Initiatives
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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

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

Tracy Dooley - Chair
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

Kevin Potgieter

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
Hao Wu
Robert Xiao
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