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Maged M. Dessouky

Maged M. Dessouky

· Tryon Chair in Industrial and Systems Engineering and Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering and Spatial Sciences Institute

University of Southern California · Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Active 1985–2026

h-index51
Citations8.0k
Papers22841 last 5y
Funding$320k

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About

Dr. Maged M. Dessouky is the Tryon Chair in Industrial and Systems Engineering and Chair of the Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at USC. He earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University in 1984 and 1987, respectively, and completed his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at the University of California at Berkeley in 1992. His research has been supported by prominent organizations including the National Science Foundation, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, PATH, Caltrans, FTA, Department of Defense, and the Department of Homeland Security's National Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE). Dr. Dessouky's work has been recognized with the 2007 Transportation Science & Logistics Best Paper Prize for his research on optimal slack time in schedule-based transit operations. He is a Fellow of both the Institute of Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS) and the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE). Throughout his career, he has received numerous teaching awards such as the IISE Operations Research Division Excellence in Teaching Award, the USC Associates Award in 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. Dr. Dessouky has served as associate editor and editorial board member for several…

Research topics

  • Computer Science
  • Transport engineering
  • Engineering
  • Business
  • Environmental economics
  • Simulation
  • Waste management
  • Environmental science
  • Automotive engineering
  • Mathematical optimization

Selected publications

Recent grants

Frequent coauthors

  • Fernando Ordóñez

    44 shared

  • Pétros Ioannou

    21 shared

  • Randolph W. Hall

    University of Southern California

    20 shared

  • Z. Shen

    15 shared

  • Sushil Kumar Verma

    12 shared

  • Luca Quadrifoglio

    11 shared

  • Edward John Kazlauskas

    University of Southern California

    11 shared

  • Shichun Hu

    11 shared

Education

  • Ph.D., Industrial Engineering

    University of Southern California

    1990

  • M.S., Industrial Engineering

    University of Southern California

    1986

  • B.S., Mechanical Engineering

    University of Alexandria

    1983

Awards & honors

  • Transportation Science & Logistics Best Paper Prize (2007)
  • IIE Operations Research Division Excellence in Teaching Awar…
  • USC Associates Award in Teaching (Top University Award for T…
  • Alpha Pi Mu/Omega Rho Outstanding Teacher of the Year in Ind…
  • USC Award for Excellence in Teaching

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