Faculty
CREATE fellows are researchers whose scholarship has contributed to the understanding of risk, behavioral, economic and decision analysis of threats and emergencies that jeopardize lives and livelihood, or jeopardize the environment. Fellows conduct research on threats that are malevolent in origin (e.g., terrorism), as well as unintentional accidents and naturally occurring disasters.
For information on the CREATE Fellows program, click here.
Director and Senior Research Fellow
Randolph Hall
Dr. Randolph Hall is Dean’s Professor in the Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and Director of CREATE. As VP of Research for 14 1/2 years, Hall led research for all of USC, overseeing research advancement, administration, and research ethics. His current research focuses on how universities innovate in their practices for education, research, and clinical care, and how they overcome obstacles to change, as well as supply chain resilience and control of infectious disease. Other research experience includes founder/principal investigator for two national research centers: CREATE and the National Center for Metropolitan Transportation Research (METRANS). As chair of ISE, Hall led Industrial and Systems Engineering to become the first named academic department at the University of Southern California, rising to a top-15 department nationally, propelled by a major endowment gift from USC Viterbi alum and USC Trustee Daniel Epstein.
Director Emeritus and Senior Research Fellow
Adam Rose
Dr. Adam Rose is a Research Professor in the University of Southern California Sol Price School of Public Policy and a Senior Research Fellow at CREATE. He is also a Senior Fellow of USC’s Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics and a Fellow of USC’s Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy. Previously, he held faculty and department chair positions in applied economics departments at The Pennsylvania State University and West Virginia University, as well as a faculty position in economics at the University of California, Riverside. He received his PhD in economics from Cornell University, but has worked on interdisciplinary topics throughout most of his career.
Director Emeritus and Senior Research Fellow
Detlof von Winterfeldt
Dr. Detlof von Winterfeldt is a Professor at the Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering of the Viterbi School of Engineering and a Professor of Public Policy and Management at the Price School of Public Policy at USC, and a Senior Research Fellow at CREATE. In 2004, he co-founded CREATE, the first university-based Center of Excellence funded by the US Department of Homeland Security.
Associate Director for Transition
Isaac Maya
Dr. Isaac Maya, PhD, PE (Nuclear), has over 25 years experience in executive management, strategic planning, and high technology academic and industrial research and development. This includes practical experience in program and project management, product development and commercialization and fiscal responsibility, in both industrial/commercial and academic environments. Dr. Maya has specialized in interdisciplinary research for the government, military and commercial sectors, ranging in scope from information technologies and systems to nuclear power reactor systems to start-up business management and operations.