Dinesh Verma

Dinesh Verma is the founding executive director of the Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC), and a professor of Systems Engineering in the School of Systems and Enterprises (SSE) at Stevens Institute of Technology. He was the founding dean of SSE for 10 years from 2007 through 2016. During his fifteen years at Stevens he has successfully proposed research and academic programs exceeding $175M in value. Verma served as scientific advisor to the director of the Embedded Systems Institute in Eindhoven, Holland from 2003 through 2008. Prior to this role, he served as technical director at Lockheed Martin Undersea Systems, in Manassas, Virginia, in the area of adapted systems and supportability engineering processes, methods and tools for complex system development. Before joining Lockheed Martin, Verma worked as a research scientist at Virginia Tech and managed the University’s Systems Engineering Design Laboratory. While at Virginia Tech and afterwards, Verma continues to serve numerous companies in a consulting capacity. He served as an invited lecturer from 1995 through 2000 at the University of Exeter, United Kingdom. His professional and research activities emphasize systems engineering and design with a focus on conceptual design evaluation, preliminary design and system architecture, design decision-making, life cycle costing and supportability engineering. In addition to his publications, Verma has received three patents in the areas of life-cycle costing and fuzzy logic techniques for evaluating design concepts. Dr. Verma has authored over 100 technical papers, book reviews, technical monographs, and co-authored three textbooks. He was honored with an honorary doctorate degree (Honoris Causa) in technology and design from Linnaeus University (Sweden) in January 2007; and with an honorary master of engineering degree (Honoris Causa) from Stevens Institute of Technology in September 2008. He is a fellow of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE).