Azad M. Madni, Ph.D., NAE

Author of highly acclaimed book, Transdisciplinary Systems Engineering: Exploiting Convergence in a Hyper-Connected World (foreword by Norm Augustine), Springer, 2017; received INCOSE RMC award for “industry-relevant breakthrough advances” in transdisciplinary systems engineering

Co-author of textbook, Tradeoff Decisions in System Design (foreword by John Slaughter); Springer 2016; book being adopted as textbook for Systems Engineering M.S. programs at major universities

Mentored students, faculty, and entrepreneurs from under-represented groups who went on to have successful careers in academia and business

Founded IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society’s award-winning Technical Committee for Model-Based Systems Engineering

Received highest award in systems engineering in 2011: INCOSE Pioneer Award for transformative advances in systems engineering research and education

Founded and grew Intelligent Systems Technology Inc.1588% in the first five years; key innovations: game-based simulations for education and training, and model-based storytelling - a cross-disciplinary approach that combines model-based engineering with interactive storytelling in virtual worlds to explore system behaviors in alternate futures

Created, introduced, commercialized and gained Army-wide adoption of videogame-based military training simulators (national headlines)

Developed model-based storytelling, a cross-disciplinary approach to modeling, analysis, visualization, and design of complex systems

Principal Investigator on 88 sponsored R&D projects (~$60 million)​

Developed 10 Award-winning products from DOD-sponsored research

Introduced videogames technology and platform-based engineering into military training simulators; reduced cost by an order of magnitude with wide soldier acceptance; technology adopted and institutionalized by U.S. Army

Founded Viterbi’s SAE Research Program; transformed SAE Graduate Educational Program to become the leading systems engineering graduate program in the country

Organized and Served as General Chair (every 3 years) of the Conference on Systems Engineering Research for the past ten years – the conference is now the number one rated international conference for systems engineering research