Sheldon M. Ross is the Daniel J. Epstein Chair and Professor at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering.
He served as a Professor at the University of California, Berkeley from 1976 until joining the USC Viterbi School of Engineering in 2004.
He serves as the Editor for several journals, among which Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences.
In 2013 he became a fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.
In 1978, he formulated what became known as Ross's conjecture in queuing theory,[2] which was solved three years later by Tomasz Rolski at Poland's Wroclaw University.