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Transdisciplinary Systems Engineering: Exploiting Convergence in a Hyperconnected World (Springer, 2018). He is the Co-Editor-in-Chief with Norm Augustine of the Handbook of Model Based Systems Engineering (Springer, 2023). He serves on the Advisory Board of the London Digital Twin Research Centre and is a faculty affiliate of USC's Ginsberg Institute of Biomedical Therapeutics. He is a Life Fellow/Fellow of ten different science and engineering societies including IEEE, INCOSE, IISE, AIAA, and AAAS. His research interests are digital twin-enabled MBSE, augmented intelligence applications in systems engineering, and transdisciplinary engineering education. He has served as Principal Investigator on 98 R&D contracts and grants totalling more than $100M. He received his Ph.D., M.S., and B.S. degrees in Engineering from UCLA



Steven Hoffenson is the Director of Data Science at Endevor, an enterprise software company that focuses on process automation for asset-intensive industries. Prior to joining Endevor, Dr. Hoffenson spent 15 years as an academic researcher and professor, where he published over 65 peer-reviewed manuscripts focused on product development, systems engineering, sustainability, and numerical optimization. His most recent academic position was in the School of Systems and Enterprises at Stevens Institute of Technology, where he directed the Design of Sustainable Products Across Complex Environments (Design SPACE) Laboratory. Dr. Hoffenson holds degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan (Ph.D. and M.S.E.) and the University of Maryland (B.S.).



Lu Xiao is an Assistant Professor in the School of Systems and Enterprises at Stevens Institute of Technology. Her research interests lie in the broad area of software engineering, particularly in software architecture, software economics, cost estimation, and software ecosystems. She is an awardee of NSF CAREER project in 2021. She has published her work in different conferences and journals, including TSE, ICSE, FSE, and ICSA, etc.. She completed her PhD in Computer Science at Drexel University in 2016. She received the first-place prize at the ACM Student Research Competition in 2015.