Dr. Ali Asghar Bataleblu is Co-Director of a systems engineering research group and Senior Research Fellow in Sustainable Manufacturing Laboratory at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, focusing on the transdisciplinary systems engineering approach for resilience, sustainability, and circular economy. He holds a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering, awarded with a distinguished doctoral dissertation. He has over a decade of experience in uncertainty-based Multidisciplinary Design Optimization (MDO), and he led an MDO research center for nearly ten years. He received the prestigious "TOWARDS South Tyrol" international postdoctoral fellowship in 2023, during which he conducted research in transdisciplinary and model-based systems engineering (MBSE) for sustainability development. In 2024, he was awarded the "Young Scientist Award" at the 5th International Conference on Quality Innovation and Sustainability (ICQIS-2024). His academic research and teaching background spans system-of-systems engineering, systems engineering, model-based systems engineering, multidisciplinary design optimization, uncertainty-based design, requirements management, multi-agent systems, sustainability, resilience, circular economy, system dynamics and control, surrogate-assisted optimization, cyber-physical systems, and digital twins.

Funded Proposals: His postdoctoral research project entitled “SFDD - Sustainable Factory Design Decomposition” received a prestigious two-year postdoctoral research fellow grant in a call for international mobility for researchers (TOWARDS South Tyrol) with at least 10 years of R&D experience funded by the Autonomous Province of Bolzano. This project is a joint research project in collaboration with Purdue University Fort Wayne aiming to accelerate the transition of local companies from traditional/smart factories towards future sustainable factories.

Young Scientist Award: He received this award at the 5^th International Conference on Quality Innovation and Sustainability (ICQIS), 16-19 June 2024 in Lisbon, Portugal, where he presented a paper entitled “Sustainable Manufacturing Design Decomposition based on Axiomatic Design Theory”.

Featured Paper: His journal article entitled “Resilient Sustainability Assessment Framework from A Transdisciplinary System-of-Systems Perspective” at Sustainability MDPI Journal is selected by editors to feature on the cover of the new issue (Sustainability, Volume 16, Issue 21 (1 November 2024)). Link: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/16/21