Adjunct Faculty, College of Engineering
Biography
Dr. Maged Elaasar joined the faculty of Northeastern University in Silicon Valley in 2023. He has built a career bridging both industry and academia, with additional teaching positions at UCLA and Carleton University.
In his primary role he is Senior Technology Researcher at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) at CalTech, where he is the technical lead for a JPL-wide strategic R&D program called Integrated Model Centric Engineering (IMCE). The mission of the program is to transform systems engineering into a rigorous, agile, and data-centric practice, and infuse it in JPL’s robotic space missions.
Prior to NASA, Maged was a Senior Software Engineer at IBM, where he led the R&D of various software and systems modeling technologies. He is the founder of Modelware Solutions, a company that provides development, consulting, and training services in the area of model based engineering (MBE).
Maged’s expertise in MBE spans both technology and practice. He currently runs openCAESAR, an open source project which streamlines the practice of model based systems engineering (MBSE) for projects building complex cyber-physical systems; he also has been a contributor to open source modeling platforms like Papyrus. He led the development of Rational Software Architect and Design Management, both popular commercial UML/SysML modeling tools from IBM. And at the OMG he has led modeling standards like SysML (contributor) and UML (co-chair). On the practice side, Maged has been a systems architect specifying the architecture of complex systems in aerospace. He has co-developed the Executable Systems Engineering Method (ESEM), which supports automated systems analysis using model execution techniques.
Education
- PhD in Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University
- MS in Computer Science, Carleton University
- BS in Computer Science, The American University in Cairo
Publications
Research Interests
Model-based systems engineering, model-driven software engineering, semantic web technologies, analytics technologies, cloud-computing technologies
