Dinesh Verma is a Professor and Executive Director of the Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC) at Stevens Institute of Technology. He previously served as Founding Dean of the School of Systems and Enterprises (2007–2017). His roles include adjunct positions at Georgetown University (Visiting Professor, Department of Biochemistry), and advisory roles at institutions like the Embedded Systems Institute (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and the Defense Science Board (U.S.). Education and Professional Background: Verma’s career spans academia and industry, including roles at Lockheed Martin, Virginia Tech (Systems Engineering Design Laboratory), and as an Invited Lecturer at the University of Exeter (1995–2000). Research Interests: Focus on systems engineering fundamentals, including conceptual design evaluation, system architecture, life cycle costing, and supportability engineering. Recent work emphasizes digital engineering integration, ontology-based model interoperability, and systems security for modular open systems. Grants & Patents: Directed over $175M in academic/research programs. Holds patents in life-cycle costing, fuzzy logic for design evaluation, and collaborative engineering tools. Awards: Honorary Doctorate (Linnaeus University, 2007) and Honorary Master’s (Stevens, 2008). INCOSE Fellow (International Council on Systems Engineering). Key Contributions: Authored 100+ publications, including textbooks on Maintainability, Economic Decision Analysis, and Space Systems Engineering. Co-founded the Defense Science Board’s Digital Engineering initiative and chairs DoD/MITRE mission engineering collaborations.









