Michael Chung

Associate Dean, Office of Communications & Marketing

Biography

After both teaching and running an award-winning agency, Michael Chung brings his decades of design, branding and marketing expertise to lead USC Viterbi’s Office of Communications and Marketing. Prior to his current post, he taught at the USC School of Architecture in the core design curriculum as well as seminar courses and lectures on visual communication, literacy and design thinking. His professional work includes brand management and campaigns for clients as diverse as Warner Bros., Occidental College and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

He holds design and architecture degrees, respectively from UC Berkeley and Yale. Holding title to the rare trifecta of faculty, staff and alumni, he also earned his MBA from the USC Marshall School of Business.