Alexander H. Levis

Title: University Professor
EMail: alevis@gmu.edu
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Office: Science and Technology 2, Room 261, ST2
Phone: 703-993-1619

Dr. Alexander H. Levis is University Professor of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering and heads the System Architectures Laboratory in the ECE Department. He is also a Visiting Professor at Loughborough University in the UK. He recently completed a three year appointment as the Chief Scientist of the U.S. Air Force, on leave from GMU. He was educated at MIT where he received the BS (1965), MS (1965), ME (1967), and Sc.D. (1968) degrees. He also attended Ripon College where he received the AB degree (1963) in Mathematics and Physics. Dr. Levis is a Fellow of the IEEEand past president of the IEEE Control Systems Society; a Fellow of AAAS and of INCOSE; an Associate Fellow of AIAA; and serves on the board of the Educational Foundation of AFCEA. He has received three times the Exceptional Civilian Service medal from the Air Force (1994, 2001, 2004) for contributions as a member of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board and as Chief Scientist. He has also received the Third Millennium medal from IEEE.

He has taught at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn (1968-1973), headed the Systems Research Dept. at Systems Control, Inc. in Palo Alto, CA (1973-1979), was a senior research scientist at the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems at MIT (1979-1990), and moved to George Mason University in 1990 where he headed twice the Systems Engineering department. Current research focus is the application of discrete event system theory to a variety of architecture and command and control problems. He has over 250 publications documenting his research, including the three volume set that he co-edited on “The Science of Command and Control”, published by AFCEA, and “The Limitless Sky: Air Force Science and Technology contributions to the Nation” published in 2004 by the Air Force.