Dr. Azad Madni

Dr. Azad Madni is the Chairman and CEO of Intelligent Systems Technology, Inc., a company that he founded in 1994 to pursue innovative research in modeling and simulation for enterprise systems architecting, process design and transformation, and team training. He is the recipient of several prestigious, national awards including the SBA’s National Tibbetts Award for California for excellence in technology innovation, Mass Mutual and U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Blue Chip Enterprise Award for entrepreneurship. He is the only two-time (2000, 2004) “Developer of the Year” Award winner from the Software Council of Southern California, a region of approximately 8000 software companies. He has been a Principal investigator on more than sixty programs/projects sponsored by twenty-five different R&D organizations including DARPA, MDA, OSD, ONR, AFOSR, AFRL, U.S. Army’s RDECOM, NIST, DOE, and NASA. He has received special awards and commendations from DARPA, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and the U.S. Navy for his pioneering R&D contributions in modeling and simulation and for their application to national “agility” and concurrent engineering initiatives. Dr. Madni has written over three hundred and fifty refereed/ peer reviewed technical publications including journal articles, book chapters, conference proceedings, research monographs, and technical reports on R&D projects. He is an elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE), Society for Design and Process Science (SDPS), and an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).