DrMichel-Alexandre Cardin

Michel-Alexandre is an Associate Professor in Engineering Systems Design at the Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London, and Director of the Strategic Engineering Laboratory.

Prior to joining Imperial College, Dr. Cardin served as a faculty member at the National University of Singapore (2011-2018), where he established the Strategic Engineering Laboratory. He worked as a Quantitative Researcher in the hedge fund industry, developing systematic strategies for derivatives trading 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.

Dr. Cardin holds a PhD in Engineering Systems and a Master of Science in Technology and Policy from MIT, a Master of Applied Science in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Toronto, Honors BSc in Physics from McGill University in Canada, and is a graduate of the Space Science Program at the International Space University. He is currently serving as Associate Editor for the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design and IISE Transactions. He served as Associate Editor for the INCOSE journalSystems Engineering (2013-2021), and on the Editorial Review Board for the journal IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management (2013-2019).

Dr. Cardin leads the development of a global community of academics and practitioners focusing on Strategic Engineering. This community is building a repository of open access materials, readings, uses cases, analytical models and design tools to help next generation engineers and project investors to build value-enhancing, sustainable and resilient infrastructures in the future, ready for the important societal challenges facing our planet. He serves as advisor to Chatter Labs, a startup developing speech therapy games and technologies for children. He is also an avid ice hockey player, and proud father of three.