Journal of Mechanical Design

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Michel-Alexandre Cardin
Areas of interest:
concept generation and selection
decision-making
engineering design
financial modeling
flexibility in design
machine learning
real options analysis
stochastic optimization
uncertainty analysis

Michel-Alexandre Cardin

Past Associate Editor

Dr. Michel-Alexandre Cardin is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Computational Aided Engineering at the Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London. His research focuses on the development and evaluation of new computer aided methodologies to support the design and analysis of flexible, resilient and sustainable infrastructure systems, in particular in energy, transportation, space and financial systems. Prior to joining Imperial College, Dr. Cardin worked as a Quantitative Researcher in the hedge fund industry, developing strategies for derivatives trading using machine learning techniques. He also served as a faculty member at the National University of Singapore, where he established and led the Strategic Engineering Laboratory. He was a principal investigator for the Singapore-ETH Centre Future Resilient Systems project, and the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology. Dr. Cardin holds a PhD in Engineering Systems and a Master of Science in Technology and Policy from MIT, a Master of Applied Science in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Toronto, Honors BSc in Physics from McGill University in Canada, and is a graduate of the Space Science Program at the International Space University. He is currently serving as Associate Editor for the INCOSE journal Systems Engineering, and served on the Editorial Review Board for the journal IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management (2013-2019). He established and served as founding chairman of the organizing committee for the conference on Complex Systems Design and Management Asia.