Maged M. Dessouky

Maged M. Dessouky is Dean’s Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering and Spatial Sciences in the Viterbi School of Engineering (VSOE) at the University of Southern California. He is serving as the chair of the VSOE Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering.

His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, PATH, Caltrans, FTA, Department of Defense, and Department of Homeland Security and its National Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE) among others.

He was recipient of the 2007 Transportation Science & Logistics Best Paper Prize (“Optimal Slack Time for Schedule-Based Transit Operations”). He is a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial Engineers. Dr. Dessouky was a recipient of IIE Operations Research Division Excellence in Teaching Award, the USC Associates Award in Teaching (Top University Award for Teaching), Alpha Pi Mu/Omega Rho Outstanding Teacher of the Year in Industrial Systems Engineering, the USC Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the TRW School of Engineering Teacher Award.

He is area/associate editor of Computers & Industrial Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IIE Transactions, and Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, on the editorial board of Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, and previously served as Area Editor of ACM Transactions of Modelling and Computer Simulation, and is listed in Who’s Who in Science and Engineering.

Ph.D., Industrial Engineering, University of California Berkeley
M.S., Industrial Engineering, Purdue University
B.S., Industrial Engineering, Purdue University