The Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Southern California seeks to fill a visiting faculty position at the rank of Visiting Assistant Professor in the area of deterministic methods in operations research. This is a nine-month, no renewable position starting approximately August 15, 2009 and terminating May 15, 2010. Candidates should have a recent, earned doctorate and methodological depth sufficient to permit him or her to offer the following four courses:

• Linear optimization and extensions at the graduate and undergraduate level.
• Combinatoric optimization with an emphasis on network flows at the graduate level, and
• Nonlinear optimization at the graduate level.

The visitor is also expected to interact with and undertake scholarly collaborations with USC faculty and to pursue his or her research agenda during the period of this visit. There is no service responsibility to the University. The salary for this visiting position is $55,000 to $60,000, depending on the candidate’s level of experience and expertise. Relocation costs will not be reimbursed.

With approximately $170 million in research expenditures annually, the USC Viterbi School of Engineering ranks first nationally in research funding per faculty member. The School’s graduate program is ranked 7th nationally, and the Epstein ISE Department is ranked 14th nationally according to US News and World Report. The current tenured, tenure-track, and full-time teaching faculty complement includes chaired Professors Barry Boehm, Stephen Lu, Sheldon Ross, and F. Stan Settles; Professors Maged Dessouky, Randolph Hall (Vice-provost for Research Advancement), Behrokh Khoshnevis, Azad Madni, Najmedin Mehskati, James Moore II, Joe Qin, and Detlof von Winterfeldt; Associate Professors Elaine Chew, Fernando Ordonez, and Mansour Rahimi; Assistant Professors Yong Chen, Qiang Huang Shinyi Wu, and Maria Yang; Professor of the Practice George Friedman; Associate Professor of the Practice Kurt Palmer; and Senior Lecturers Geza Bottlik and Dana Sherman. Professor Emeritus Gerald Nadler remains active in the department.

The Epstein department has 650 graduate students and 150 undergraduate students. The Epstein ISE Department offers two bachelors’ degrees, seven masters’ degrees (Systems Architecting and Engineering, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Engineering Management, Health System Management Engineering, Operations Research Engineering, Product Development Engineering, and Manufacturing Engineering), several graduate certificates, and maintains a selective doctoral program. A new joint masters degree in Health Systems Management Engineering is planned with the School of Policy, Planning, and Development’s Master of Health Administration Program.

The department is home to the first University Center of Excellence funded by the Department of Homeland Security, with an emphasis on risk and economic analysis; and, along with the USC Department of Computer Science, The Center for Systems and Software Engineering. Department faculty members are also leading funded research projects in areas as diverse as optimization, health care delivery, predictive control and performance assessment, industrial ecology, network performance, rapid prototyping, automated construction, scheduling, risk analysis, music cognition, and cognitive engineering. See http://www.usc.edu/dept/ise.

Mail applications, including a cover letter, curriculum vitae, a list of references, and copies of publications to:


Send the same material as email attachments to Georgia Lum (glum@usc.edu). Candidates may contact department chair James Moore for further information at 213-740-4885. The review process will begin immediately and continue until this position is filled.

The University of Southern California is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages applications from women and members of underrepresented groups.

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