Dr. Sheldon M. Ross is a professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC). He got his Ph.D. in statistics from Stanford University in 1968. Dr. Ross has published many textbooks and technical articles in the areas of statistics and applied probability. Among his textbooks are Introduction to Probability Models, Stochastic Processes, A First Course in Probability, and Introductory Statistics.

He is the founding and continuing editor of the journal Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences. He is a Fellow of INFORMS, a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and a recipient of the Humboldt US Senior Scientist Award.