In August 2018, a committee was announced to lead a nationwide search for the next chancellor, the office having been filled on an interim basis since May 2017.[28] In May 2019, Mohammad Dehghani of Stevens Institute of Technology was announced as the next Missouri S&T chancellor, to begin service in August 2019.[29] Dehghani had previously held leadership positions at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the Applied Physics Laboratory, and the Johns Hopkins University Systems Institute, at which he was a founding director.[30]