Thomas Katsouleas Vice Provost for Information Services

Thomas Katsouleas is vice provost for information services and a professor of electrical engineering. In 2005-06, he served as president of the Academic Senate, during which time he focused on enhancing the university's academic technology infrastructure. Katsouleas has also served as associate dean for research and as associate dean for student affairs in the Viterbi School of Engineering.

Katsouleas was the first chair of USC's High Performance Computing and Communications Center (HPCC) Faculty Advisory Committee. In 2005–06, he co-chaired the Senate-Provost Committee to Examine Information Services, which recommended restructuring USC's information technology services into a federated model.

Katsouleas' research focuses on the applications of plasma physics to particle accelerators and high power microwave sources. He leads a large multi-institutional effort (with Stanford and UCLA) to demonstrate that a plasma can be used to miniaturize a particle accelerator from kilometer to meter scales. His group also performs large-scale supercomputing simulations to track the complex motion of the billions of particles that make up these relativistic plasmas. Katsouleas is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He is associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, the author of more than 130 journal articles, and the editor of four books.