Since 2005, Yannis C. Yortsos is the Dean of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering and the Zohrab Kaprielian Chair in Engineering. He received a BS degree from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, and MS and PhD degrees from the California Institute of Technology, all in chemical engineering. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2008 where he also serves as a member of the NAE Council. Yortsos is an honorary member of the AIME (2011), of the Academy of Athens (2013), a recipient of the Ellis Medal of Honor (2014) and an honorary professor at Tsinghua University (2017). As dean of engineering, he articulated Engineering+, positioning engineering as the enabling discipline of our times. In 2009 he co-founded the NAE Global Grand Challenges Scholars Program, now adopted by many universities in the US and overseas. Since 2012, he chaired the Diversity Committee of the Engineering Deans Council, where he spearheaded an engineering diversity initiative, now adopted by more than 210 engineering deans nationwide. In recognition of these initiatives, USC Viterbi received in 2017 the ASEE President’s Award. Yortsos serves as the PI of the NSF I-Corps Innovation Node Los Angeles, established in 2014.  Yortsos has served on the Executive Committees of the Engineering Deans Council of the American Society of Engineering Education (2011-2017) and of the Global Engineering Deans Council (2012-2016).