Professor Azad Madni has been selected as an International Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE), joining an elite group of engineers recognized for their outstanding contributions and strategic leadership in addressing issues of global significance.
As Northrop Grumman Foundation Fred O’Green Chair in Engineering, and University Professor at USC Viterbi‘s Department of Astronautical Engineering, Department of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering, and the USC Rossier School of Education, Madni’s work as a researcher and educator encompasses multiple fields – an approach to networked, multi-disciplinary practice that has defined his career.
Madni serves as the director of USC’s Systems Architecting and Engineering Program; his key areas of research include transdisciplinary and model-based systems engineering methods for realizing intelligent cyber-physical-human systems (such as autonomous vehicles, smart manufacturing, and outcome-driven health care), interactive storytelling in virtual worlds, and augmented intelligence in adaptive human-machine teaming. Professor Madni defined the field of transdisciplinary systems engineering and is the creator of TRASEE™, a transdisciplinary engineering education paradigm that fosters out-of-the-box thinking while enhancing retention and recall of concepts and facts through innovative storytelling and role-playing approaches.
