About Me

From industrial systems to operational decision systems

My work began in aircraft maintenance and industrial information systems. In 2006, I mapped aircraft-maintenance processes across engineering, planning, stock control, and quality functions at Iran Air. I subsequently led approximately 10 CMMS implementations in manufacturing and petrochemical environments and helped architect enterprise systems for distributed construction operations.

Those projects taught me that software alone rarely solves an operational problem. Asset structures, data definitions, workflows, responsibilities, decision rights, and organizational behavior must be designed together.

I later pursued doctoral research in industrial and systems engineering, concentrating on optimization, reliability, maintenance, and decision-making under uncertainty. My research has included flight and maintenance planning, integrated production-maintenance scheduling, physical-asset replacement, and large-scale fleet-planning algorithms.

Today, I am a tenured Associate Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Cal Poly Pomona and founder of Optimal Flows. Across both roles, I work at the boundary between rigorous research and usable operational systems.

Begin with the operation, not the technology

I begin by understanding the decision environment: the physical process, people, constraints, variability, data, incentives, existing systems, and consequences of failure.

Only then do I determine what combination of optimization, reliability analysis, MBSE, software, AI, workflow design, or physical-system architecture is appropriate.

My work typically involves:

Analytical sophistication matters, but a technically impressive model is not useful if it represents the wrong system or cannot function inside the organization that must use it.

I am most useful when capable people from different disciplines are working on an important problem but do not yet share a clear system definition or technical direction.

I clarify the purpose, expose consequential assumptions, make architecture and scope decisions, and align the participants around an executable path. I remain technically engaged through implementation, integration, testing, and iteration so that the original purpose is not lost as the system develops.

Research

During my 2026–27 sabbatical, I am advancing collaborative research in integrated flight-maintenance planning with prognostics, physical-asset lifecycle optimization, and operational decision systems. This work includes collaboration with Politecnico di Milano and the German Aerospace Center (DLR).

Applied systems and commercialization

Through Optimal Flows, I work on translating operational problems and validated research methods into decision systems, pilots, and commercial products.

Platform development

Optimal Flows also develops structured platforms for educational and professional workflows.

ArcAuthor is an engineered AI-assisted teaching and learning platform through which I am consolidating my courses, hands-on activities, instructional workflows, and student learning experiences.

RecomAid is a working recommendation-letter platform being developed toward broader faculty and institutional adoption. Its long-term objective is to establish a more structured, evidence-based standard for producing recommendation letters while preserving the professor’s authorship and judgment.

Alongwise is an early-stage career-coaching and application-management platform currently undergoing user validation.

Aircraft Maintenance Systems Mapping

Mapped enterprise maintenance operations across engineering, planning, stock control, and quality functions at Iran Air.

Industrial CMMS Implementations

Led approximately 10 implementations involving asset hierarchies, legacy-data migration, preventive and predictive maintenance, work-order workflows, and performance reporting.

Enterprise Systems Architecture

Architected multi-module ERP platforms for construction operations, including maintenance, workflow, knowledge-management, and security functions.

Fleet and Maintenance Optimization

Developed optimization formulations and solution methods for coordinating operational demand, asset availability, maintenance requirements, and capacity.

Complex-System Validation

Designed a combinatorial validation framework for a rule-heavy national taxation module, replacing ad hoc testing with repeatable coverage of feasible input combinations and interactions.

Cyber-Physical Product Development

I develop electromechanical products through disciplined requirements definition, system architecture, specialist coordination, prototype integration, and validation.

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