Pius J. Egbelu, PhD, is dean of the NJIT School of Management and also holds the title of distinguished professor and Then & Clark Chair. His research interests are in the areas of automated material handling, facilities planning and design, manufacturing, supply chain engineering and enterprise and service systems analysis. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial Engineers and a licensed engineer in the State of Louisiana.

Egbelu served previously as the dean of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Academy and as dean of engineering and Bert Turner Distinguished Professor at Louisiana State University. Prior to his tenure at LSU, he served as chair of the department of industrial and manufacturing systems engineering at Iowa State University, program director for production systems and operations research at the NSF, assistant professor and associate professor of industrial and manufacturing engineering at Pennsylvania State University, and assistant professor of industrial engineering and operations research at Syracuse University. 

He has been vice chair of the Academic Coalition for Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (A-CIMS), was a member of the Federal Aviation Administration Advisory Board for air traffic controller staffing standards and served on advisory boards of directorates and committees of visitors at NSF and on the board of Louisiana Foundation for Excellence in Science, Technology, and Education (LaFESTE). 

Egbelu holds a BS in industrial engineering, magna cum laude, from Louisiana Tech University, and both an MS and a PhD in industrial engineering and operations research from Virginia Tech.