Dr Michel-Alexandre Cardin

Associate Professor in Engineering Systems Design

Associate Professor in Engineering Systems Design at the Dyson School of Design Engineering and Director of the Strategic Engineering Laboratory. Prior to joining Imperial, he was a faculty member at the National University of Singapore (2011–2018), where he established the Strategic Engineering Laboratory, and worked as a Quantitative Researcher in the hedge fund industry, developing systematic derivatives-trading strategies using machine learning. He was a principal investigator for the Singapore-ETH Centre Future Resilient Systems project and the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology. He leads the development of a global community of academics and practitioners in Strategic Engineering, building a repository of open-access materials, case studies, analytical models and design tools to help the next generation of engineers and project investors build value-enhancing, sustainable and resilient infrastructure. He holds a PhD in Engineering Systems and an MSc in Technology and Policy from MIT, an MASc in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Toronto, an Honours BSc in Physics from McGill University, and is a graduate of the Space Science Program at the International Space University. He serves as Associate Editor for the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design and IISE Transactions, and previously served as Associate Editor for the INCOSE journal Systems Engineering (2013–2021) and on the Editorial Review Board of IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management (2013–2019).