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She obtained a PhD in Information Technology from the University of Johannesburg, South Africa, in April 2025 and is currently a Senior Research Associate at the same university in the Data Science Across Disciplines research group, a role she has held since July 2025. She blends deep academic expertise with practical industry insights gained from over 15 years of experience in Banking IT, Consulting, and Training, particularly in handling research projects and academic writing. She also serves as a computational modelling analyst on medical AI projects within a research cluster at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Opeoluwa is not only a researcher but also a dedicated educator. She has more than two years of teaching experience at EDUVOS University in South Africa and continues to engage in research project supervision. Her core specialization lies in analyzing complex datasets and developing software solutions that translate into actionable insights. 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As systems such as aircraft and land vehicles grow in complexity and adopt novel technologies, it becomes essential to systematically explore architectural design spaces without relying on domain-specific heuristics that may introduce bias and limit innovation. SAO moves optimization methods—traditionally applied downstream after a small number of architectures are selected—into the upstream architecture decision-making process.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>By leveraging system architecting activities such as functional decomposition and function-to-component allocation, SAO enables integration between Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) descriptive models and quantitative, simulation-based evaluation and optimization. As a result, SAO bridges conceptual design and architecting with downstream sizing and optimization while enriching MBSE models with data from disciplinary analyses.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>This tutorial introduces the theoretical foundations of SAO and provides hands-on experience in modeling architecture design spaces, coupling architecture generation with evaluation code, selecting appropriate optimization algorithms, and integrating SAO with Capella, an open-source MBSE platform.\u003C/p>","2026-01-02T21:41:19.936Z","2026-04-02T15:38:38.045Z","2026-01-02T21:41:21.019Z","81",[658,667],{"id":124,"name":659,"committee":16,"position":16,"affiliation":660,"email":16,"biography":661,"createdAt":662,"updatedAt":663,"url_path_id":664,"contactPhoto":16,"socialLinks":665,"url_path":666},"Santiago Valencia-Ibáñez","Concordia University","\u003Cp>Santiago Valencia-Ibañez is a PhD student at the Aircraft Systems Lab at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, supervised by Dr. Susan Liscouet-Hanke. His research focuses on extending MBSE methodologies and tools by integrating them with System Architecture Optimization for aircraft system design. He holds a master’s degree in aerospace engineering from Delft University of Technology and bachelor’s degrees in mechanical engineering and physics from Universidad de los Andes.\u003C/p>","2025-11-03T21:01:42.912Z","2025-11-03T21:02:47.214Z","56",[],"-21",{"id":335,"name":668,"committee":16,"position":16,"affiliation":669,"email":16,"biography":670,"createdAt":671,"updatedAt":672,"url_path_id":673,"contactPhoto":674,"socialLinks":687,"url_path":688},"Jasper Bussemaker","DLR Institute of System Architectures","\u003Cp>Jasper Bussemaker researches System Architecture Optimization and its integration with MBSE and MDAO at the DLR Institute of System Architectures in Aeronautics in Hamburg, Germany. He is developing methods and software for modeling architecture design spaces, using MDO to evaluate candidate architectures, and solving architecture optimization problems. 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As systems become more complex, the strategic approach re: assurance is needed to gain advantage, an approach only the systems engineer or those practicing systems engineer may hope to achieve.\u003C/p>","\u003Cp>Security should be foundational in systems engineering, as engineering cannot assume benign environments for development, operations, maintenance, and support. Systems engineering must properly employ principles, concepts, and methods to coordinate, orchestrate, and direct activities to deliver assured, trustworthy, secure systems in and for contested environments.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>This tutorial overviews the security proficiency elements needed for systems engineering, aligned with many of the concepts presented in INCOSE’s \u003Ci>Security in the Future of Systems Engineering\u003C/i> efforts (INCOSE Insight, June 2022).\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Meeting stakeholder needs within constraints of cost, schedule, and performance must include meeting the security protection needs that derive from those stakeholder needs. The activities addressed focus on loss concerns associated with the system of interest throughout its lifecycle, considering potential adversities—both malicious and non-malicious. This includes developing an inherently assured, trustworthy, secure design that:\u003C/p>\u003Cul>\u003Cli>avoids loss from occurring,\u003C/li>\u003Cli>minimizes the effects of loss when it does occur, and\u003C/li>\u003Cli>is intrinsically easier to analyze for vulnerabilities and hazards during upgrades.\u003C/li>\u003C/ul>\u003Cp>The tutorial presents a principled, strategic approach focused on designing an intrinsically assured, trustworthy design. This approach supports realization of intrinsically trustworthy, secure systems by aiding prioritization, reducing workload, and mitigating concerns related to “unknowns” through assurance—thereby producing trustworthiness in the system. 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He has worked for several defense contractors, an Environmental Protection Agency contractor, a Facebook-like startup, a fabless semiconductor manufacturer of commercial security protocol acceleration solutions, and a network performance management solutions company.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Until recently, Mark served as the MITRE Systems Security Engineering Department Chief Engineer. In recent years, his work has focused on collaborating with various MITRE sponsors on standardization-of-practice efforts. Mark is also a co-author of NIST SP 800-160, Volume 1, Revision 1: Engineering Trustworthy Secure Systems.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Within INCOSE, Mark works with the Systems Security Engineering Working Group as co-chair and serves as INCOSE’s expert liaison for CS1, the U.S. TAG for ISO/IEC JTC1/SC27 Security and Privacy. He also serves as deputy lead for the Loss-Driven Systems Engineering project.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Mark recently began working with Caltech on security training through Secure Systems Engineering | Caltech CTME.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Mark is a graduate of the University of Virginia (PhD, Mathematics) and Florida State University (BS and MS, Mathematics). 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Security must be engineered into systems from the beginning - not added after deployment - to address sophisticated adversarial threats and meet certification, accreditation, and trust requirements.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>This tutorial introduces Systems Security Engineering (SSE), as defined in DoDI 5200.44 and NIST SP 800-160. SSE integrates security directly into the systems engineering life cycle, applying rigorous engineering principles to identify vulnerabilities, reduce risk, and build resilient, trustworthy systems.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>Participants will gain a system-level and management-level understanding of information security, including how security requirements are derived, how they are integrated into system design and development, and how security is managed across the system life cycle. The session balances technical foundations with organizational and compliance considerations, equipping attendees to align security with mission objectives.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>By the end of the tutorial, participants will be better prepared to contribute to secure system development and to advocate for security as a core engineering discipline in the face of evolving threats.\u003C/p>","2026-01-05T19:10:59.351Z","2026-04-04T14:36:07.648Z","2026-01-05T19:11:00.540Z","84",[735],{"id":442,"name":736,"committee":16,"position":16,"affiliation":737,"email":16,"biography":738,"createdAt":739,"updatedAt":740,"url_path_id":741,"contactPhoto":742,"socialLinks":755,"url_path":756},"Mehrdad S. Sharbaf","Sharbaf and Associates LLC","\u003Cp>Dr. Mehrdad S. Sharbaf is a prominent figure in cybersecurity and information systems security, with over two decades of experience spanning academia, government, and enterprise consulting. 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He has published more than 400 journal papers and 300 conference papers. He is an associate editor of various journals such as Scientific Reports, IEEE Emerging Topics on Circuits and Systems, and Journal of Sensors. 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