Faculty
CREATE is led by senior faculty from the University of Southern California, who also serve as Senior Research Fellows.
CREATE Research 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 J.A. Tiberti Chair in Ethics and Decision Making and 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-10 department nationally, propelled by major endowment gifs from USC Viterbi alum and USC Trustee Daniel Epstein.
Director Emeritus and Senior Research Fellow
Detlof von Winterfeldt
Dr. Detlof von Winterfeldt is a retired Professor at the Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering of the Viterbi School of Engineering and in 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.
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.