Leadership Team

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

Vacant for the Academic Year 2021-2022
Executive Vice Dean of Engineering

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


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

Andrea Armani
Vice Dean for New Initiatives and Ray Irani Chair in Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
- Learn More -

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

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
- Learn More -

Kaci Silverman
Sr. Associate Dean for Advancement


Yolanda Gil
Director of New Initiatives in AI and Data Science
- Learn More -

Department Chairs

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

Paul D. Ronney
Chair - Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
- Learn More -

Dan Erwin
Chair - Department of Astronautical Engineering
- Learn More -

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

Anthony Levi
Chair - Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering (Electrophysics)
- Learn More -

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

Cyrus Shahabi
Chair - Computer Science and the holder of the Helen N. and Emmett H. Jones Professorship in Engineering
- Learn More -

Vasilis Marmaralis
Interim Chair - Biomedical Engineering and Dean's Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Learn More -

Michael Khoo
Interim Chair - Biomedical Engineering and Dean's Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Pediatrics
- Learn More -

David D'Argenio
Interim Chair - Biomedical Engineering and Chonette Chair in Biomedical Technology
- Learn More -

Burcin Becerik-Gerber
Chair - Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Dean's Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Learn More -
Boards
Board of Councilors
Dwight J. Baum – Chair
Mike Abbott
Terry Adams
Sonny Astani
William F. Ballhaus, Jr.
Sujata Banerjee
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
John Shea
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
Tracy Dooley - Chair
Atman Kadakia - Vice Chair
Lydia Froemelt Madden - Vice Chair
Farzana Ansari
Lyssa Aruda
Shira Bernard
Neel Bhoopalam
Janet Boachie
Emily Brink
Kameron Burk
Franklin Cheng
Rhea Choudhury
Promita Deb
Reed Doucette
Ali Fakhari
Zachary Gima
Mike Ghaffary
David Hodge
Aaron Ishikawa
Justin Jameson
Preethi Kasireddy
Elton Kwok
Amy Lin
Merie Ludena McGrath
Albert Managhas
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
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 April 18th, 2022