Dinesh Verma served as the Founding Dean of the School of Systems and Enterprises at Stevens Institute of Technology from 2007 through 2016. He currently serves as the Executive Director of the Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC), a US Department of Defense sponsored University Affiliated Research Center (UARC) along with the Acquisition Innovation Research Center (AIRC). During his twenty years at Stevens he has successfully proposed research and academic programs exceeding $200m in value. Prior to this role, he served as Technical Director at Lockheed Martin Undersea Systems in the area of adapted systems and supportability engineering. Dinesh received his PhD and M.S. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech.