Information

Membership Number: FCA3529

Membership Type: Fellowship

Division: Engineering and Applied Sciences

Corresponding Email: nsiegel@usc.edu

Homepage(s): https://viterbi.usc.edu/directory/faculty/Siegel/Neil 

Present and Previous Positions

Neil Siegel is the IBM Professor of Engineering Management, a Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering Practice with Distinction in the Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, and is also a Professor of Computer Science Practice with Distinction, all within the Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California

Fields of Scholarship and Research Interests

Professor Neil Siegel’s scholarship is centered on systems engineering for large, complex socio-technical systems—how to design, build, and reliably deliver high-impact systems that operate at national or global scale. Drawing on extensive real-world program leadership, his research identifies novel root causes of system-development failure and develops validated methods to prevent them, including design patterns and guidelines, measurable design-adequacy metrics, and evidence-based guidance on team/task assignment to improve outcomes in large programs. 

A complementary strand of his work addresses information networking, especially wireless and mobile ad-hoc (“infrastructureless”) networks, as well as “force-structure-aware” approaches for achieving robust network dynamics under severe constraints; he is also recognized for pioneering large-scale deployments of GPS-enabled applications. In addition, he has sponsored and helped advance research in human–computer interaction, including foundational contributions underpinning widely used multi-touch and free-space gesture interaction technologies.

Honors, Awards and Other Membership

• U.S. National Medal of Technology and Innovation

• Elected Member, U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE)

• Fellow, U.S. National Academy of Inventors (NAI)

• Elected Member, National Academy of Artificial Intelligence

• IEEE Simon Ramo Medal (systems engineering and systems science)

• TRW Chairman’s Award for Innovation (three times)

• U.S. Army’s Order of Saint Barbara

• iCMG Award for System Architecture

• Northern Virginia Technology Council CTO-of-the-Year Award

• Fellow, IEEE

• Fellow, INCOSE (International Council on Systems Engineering)

• Fellow, Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA)

• Fellow, Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance (AIIA)

• Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award

• Crosstalk Award (best-managed software project across the entire U.S. Government)

Selected Publications

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=w9sYpDQAAAAJ 

Other Information

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Siegel 

https://www.nae.edu/285790/NeilSiegel 

Neil -- acceptance letter.pdf