William B. Rouse

Bill Rouse is a researcher, educator, author and entrepreneur.  He founded and leads Curis Meditor, LLC, a Washington, DC based company focused on the health of people, processes, organizations, and society.  The firm's expertise includes individual and organizational decision making and problem solving, as well as design of organizations and information systems.  In these areas, Bill has consulted with well over one hundred large and small enterprises in the private, public, and non-profit sectors, where he has worked with several thousand executives and senior managers. His current research focuses on understanding and managing complex public-private systems such as healthcare delivery, higher education, urban systems and defense, with emphasis on mathematical and computational modeling of these systems for the purpose of policy design and analysis.

Bill is also Research Professor in the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University, and Professor Emeritus in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology.  His earlier positions include Executive Director of the university-wide Tennenbaum Institute and Chair of the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech.  He was CEO of two innovative software companies – Enterprise Support Systems and Search Technology.  He held earlier faculty positions at Stevens Institute of Technology, Georgia Tech, University of Illinois, Delft University of Technology, and Tufts University.

Among many advisory roles, he has served as Chair of the Committee on Human Factors of the National Research Council, a member of the U.S. Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, and a member of the DoD Senior Advisory Group on Modeling and Simulation.  He is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education of the National Academies. He has been designated a lifetime National Associate of the National Research Council and National Academies.  He is a member of the Research Council of the Systems Engineering Research Center.   

Rouse received his B.S. from the University of Rhode Island, and his S.M. and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.