SAE - Key Persons
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- Professor, Ming Hsieh Electrical Engineering - Systems Department
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- Professor, Signal & Image Processing Institute ( SIPI )
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- Executive Director
- Professor Executive Director, SAE Program
- Professor, Astronautical Engineering Executive Director, System Architecting & Engineering Program Director, Distributed Autonomy and Intelligent Systems Laboratory
Azad M. Madni is a Professor of Astronautical Engineering and Executive Director of USC's Systems Architecting and Engineering Program in the Viterbi School of Engineering. He is also the Director of the Distributed Autonomy and Intelligent Systems Laboratory. He is the chair and co-founder of the IEEE SMC's award-winning Technical Committee for Model-Based Systems Engineering. He has served as General Chair of the Conference on Systems Engineering Research since 2008. He is an AAAS Fellow, AIAA Fellow, IEEE Life Fellow, IETE Life Fellow, INCOSE Fellow, and SDPS Fellow and has received prestigious awards and honors from nine different societies. His research has been sponsored by several government agencies including DARPA, DHS S&T, DoD-SERC, NASA, DTRA, OSD, MDA, ONR, AFOSR, AFRL, ARI, ARL, RDECOM, CECOM, ERDC, NAVAIR, NAVSEA, SPAWAR, MARCOR, DOE, and NIST. His research has also been sponsored by major aerospace and automotive companies including Boeing, General Motors, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman Corporation, SAIC, and Lockheed Martin Orincon.
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- Professor, Departments of Computer Science and Industrial & Systems Engineering Director, Center for Systems & Software Engineering
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- Research Ass'T Professor, Computer Science Department Research Assoc. Professor, Information Sciences Institute ( ISI )
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- Professor, Ming Hsieh Electrical Engineering - Electrophysics Department, William M. Keck Chair in Engineering
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- Department of Astronautical Engineering
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- Professor & Department Chair, Biomedical Engineering Department
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- Professor, Computer Science Department
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- Lecturer
- Engineering Specialist in Systems and Software Engineering at the Aerospace Corporation
Dr. Mark L. McKelvin, Jr. is an Engineering Specialist in systems and software engineering at the Aerospace Corporation. In this role, Dr. McKelvin advises customers on model-based engineering techniques and develops solutions to architecture design challenges in cyber-physical and software-intensive systems. His interests are in the application of modeling, analysis, and design of engineered systems, including cyber-physical, embedded, and software systems. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley with an emphasis in Electronic Design Automation.
Dr. Phan Phan has over 38 years of professional experience in government, academia and various industries, including petroleum, health care, aerospace & defense. As a registered P. E. (Mechanical), he is currently a lead systems reliability engineer at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Corona Division. Phan has also served in the U.S. Navy Reserve as an Engineering Duty Officer, attaining the rank of Captain and assigned to Naval Sea Systems Command. He received his Master of Engineering Acoustics from Naval Postgraduate School, M.S. in Systems Architecture & Engineering and Ph.D. in Industrial & Systems Engineering from USC.
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- Adjunct Associate Professor
- Certified Architect ( RCA ) and an Engineering Fellow
Dr. Thomas McKendree is a Raytheon Certified Architect (RCA) and an Engineering Fellow at Raytheon, where he has worked ballistic missile defense, automated vehicle highways, Satellite-Based Augmentation Systems, GPS III, OCX, NASA Space Exploration architecture, the Joint Precision Approach and Landing System, and acted as Regional Chief Technologist for Fullerton operations. He previously interned at The Aerospace Corporation, worked seven years at McDonnell Douglas, and has taught Systems Architecting at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering as an Adjunct Associate Professor. His research interests include systems architecting, decision theory, strategy, molecular nanotechnology, space systems and space logistics.
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- Professor, Departments of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering
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- Professor Emeritus, Departments of Electrical Engineering
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- Professor, Computer Science Department
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- Adjunct Associate Professor, Epstein Industrial & Systems Engineering Department
Jairus Hihn (Ph.D, U. Maryland) is a Principal Member of the Systems Engineering staff at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He has been active in infusing the use of quantitative management and planning methods across NASA especially in the area of cost estimation. He is the Risk and Programmatics chair on JPL's concurrent engineering team, Team X. He has over 60 publications including recent articles in IEEE Transactions in Software Engineering, Automation in Software Engineering, and Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering. Jairus received ISPA's Parametrician of the Year Award and the USC SSE Lifetime Achievement.
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- II, Professor, Departments of Industrial & Systems Engineering and Civil and Environmental Engineering, and the School of Public Policy
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- Professor, Ming Hsieh Electrical Engineering
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- Associate Professor, Ming Hsieh Electrical Engineering - Systems Department
Mr. Cureton retired from Boeing (Rockwell) after 29 years of experience, and accomplished another 16 years of successful technical leadership in commercial and government sectors. He also served on the NCO Industry Consortium (NCOIC) as Technical Council Chair from April 2010 through April 2011. He teaches Systems Architecting, Systems Architecting and the Political Process, and Advanced topics in Systems Engineering master level courses. His expertise include: Enterprise Systems Architecting, System-of-Systems Modeling and Integration, Complex Networked Systems and Interoperability, and Resilience Engineering.
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- Professor, Civil Engineering
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- Director of Student Affairs
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- Professor, Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering Department
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- Professor, Computer Science Department
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- Lecturer
- Senior Systems Engineer at Caltech 's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Dr. Michael Sievers is a Senior Systems Engineer at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and a Lecturer in the System Architecting and Engineering Program at the University of Southern California. He teaches SAE 547 (Model Based Systems Engineering) and SAE 548 (Systems/SoS Integration). He conducts research in model-based systems engineering and is a principal investigator on a number of harsh environment, fault-tolerant, high-performance computing research projects. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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- Professor, Computer Science Department
Parnell, G. Madni, A.M. Bordley, R.F. A Conceptual Framework and Mathematical Foundation for Trade-off Analysis, in Trade-off Analytics, Parnell, G. (Ed.), Wiley, 2016.
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- Assistant Director of Student Affairs
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- Professor, Epstein Industrial & Systems Engineering Department
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- Lecturer / Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Ted Mayeshiba has been coaching and advising since 1991. He is currently a Principal of Aditi Group, a nationwide consulting firm in HIPAA and HITEC compliance based in Santa Monica, CA. Theodore Mayeshiba is a Fellow of IISE. He received his Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Engineering from Kettering University (formerly General Motors Institute). He holds a Master Degree in Business Administration from the University of Southern California.