Researcher

Dr. Azad Madni is the Executive Director of University of Southern California’s Systems Architecting and Engineering Program, and a Professor of Astronautical Engineering in USC’s Viterbi School of Engineering. He is also the founding director of USC Viterbi’s Distributed Autonomy and Intelligent Systems (DAIS) Laboratory. He is the chairman and CEO of Intelligent Systems Technology Inc.  He received his BS, MS, and PhD degrees in Engineering from UCLA. His research interests include formal and probabilistic Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) methods, distributed autonomy, intelligent systems, adaptive cyber-physical-human systems, and distributed simulation technology. His research sponsors include DoD, DHS, NSF, NASA, NIST, DoE as well as aerospace and automotive companies. His recent awards and honors include the 2019 AIAA/ASEE Leland Atwood Award, the ASME CIE Leadership Award, the 2019 Society of Modeling and Simulation International Presidential Award, the 2019 INCOSE Founders Award, and 2011 INCOSE Pioneer Award. He is an elected Fellow of IEEE (Life), AIAA, INCOSE, AAAS, IETE (Life), and SDPS (Life). He is the author of Transdisciplinary Systems Engineering: Exploiting Convergence in a Hyper-Connected World (Springer 2018), and co-author of Tradeoff Decisions in System Design (Springer 2016). He is the co-founder and Chair of the award-winning IEEE SMC Technical Committee on MBSE.