Intelligent Systems Technology, (ISTI) is a leader in modeling and simulation approaches to systems engineering, training, and education. The company is a two-time Developer of the Year Award winner at the Software Industry Awards sponsored by the Technology Council of Southern California, and was ranked for four consecutive years in the Deloitte and Touche Los Angeles Technology Fast 50, and twice in the Deloitte and Touch U.S. Fast 500. The company was selected by Computerworld to the 100 Top Emerging Companies to Watch in 2000. ISTI is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.  

ISTI is developing online courses in the technology area of Model Based Systems Engineering. Specifically, the courses will focus on technologies such as:   Technology Adoption; System Modeling; Digital Engineering and Digital Twins; and Systems Thinking. They will primarily be taught by Dr. Azad Madni. However, ISTI will bring in guest instructors with specialties in relevant areas. 

For more information about ISTI, please go to our website: www.intelsystech.com

Dr. Azad M. Madni
Member, National Academy of Engineering

Azad Madni is a researcher, entrepreneur, educator and author. He is the founder, President and CEO of Intelligent Systems Technology, Inc. a high tech company specializing in modeling and simulation technology for complex systems engineering, education and training. He's the Executive Director of University of Southern California's Systems Architecting and Engineering (SAE) Program and Professor of Astronautical Engineering in USC's Viterbi School of Engineering. He is also the Principal Systems Engineering Advisor at The Aerospace Corporation. His previous positions include Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Perceptronics, and Simulation Research Leader at Rockwell International on NASA's Space Shuttle Program. He pioneered the meta-discipline of Transdisciplinary Systems Engineering to exploit the convergence of systems engineering with other disciplines. He is the creator of Model-Driven Storytelling, a transdiscplinary approach that integrates model-based engineering with interactive storytelling in virtual worlds to enhance stakeholder participation in upfront engineering. His areas of expertise include model-based methods for architecting and design of resilient systems and enterprises and intelligent systems for planning, decision making, training and tutoring. His research in these areas has been sponsored by the federal government, aerospace and automotive companies, several DOD agencies, Air Force, Army, Navy and Marine Corps. His research sponsors in the government include DARPA, OSD, DHS, S&T, MDA, DOE, NIST and NASA. His research sponsors in the aerospace and automotive industries include Boeing, General Motors, NGC, Raytheon, Hughes, Orincon and SAIC. He has served as a consultant to Institute for Defense Analysis, RAND Corporation, UCLA, Oakridge National Laboratory, and Orincon. He is the co-founder and current chair of IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Model-Based Systems Engineering Technical Committee, and serves on the steering committees of multiple centers at USC. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles.

For more information about Dr. Madni go to www.AzadMadni.com.