Contact Dr Yaseen Zaidi
Areas of expertise
- Aeronautical Systems
- Digital Twinning
- Space Systems
- Systems Engineering
Background
Yaseen Zaidi PGCertAPP, FHEA, SM{ACM, AIAA, IEEE}, M{INCOSE, SIAM}, is an industry professional turned academic. Now an application-agnostic and aero/astro preferring, senior lecturer in systems engineering at Cranfield Defence and Security. He holds a PhD EE, MS Engineering Management, and BSEE. He is an associate editor of the SAE Aerospace Journal.
Projects:
Out of Cycle NExt generation highly efficient air transport - ONEheart (UKRI)
Digital thread data object definition MDE-Net: A UK Expert Network in Model-Driven Engineering (EPSRC subaward)
A 'safe Systems' Approach for Enabling Traffic Injury Prevention in Nepal - SAFE TrIP Nepal (NIHR)
Dock to Dock (D2D) Future Flight Challenge competition (UKRI)
Research opportunities
Aero/Space vehicle systems, digital mission engineering, MBSE, digital twinning and thread, agile, mixed-fidelity cosimulation framework
Clients
- Airbus SE
- Atomic Weapons Establishment
- Ministry of Defence
- L3 HARRIS MAPPS Ltd
Publications
Articles In Journals
- Zaidi Y & Winberg S. (2025). Automatic heterogeneous runtime using signal processing domain-specific and parallel patterns. International Journal of Parallel Programming, 53(2)
- Brown ETG & Zaidi Y. (2025). Survey of model-based systems engineering (MBSE): state of practice, perception and aligning academic instructions with industry needs. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering, 239(16)
- Martin J & Zaidi Y. (2023). SpaceWire communications in power over ethernet environment. CEAS Space Journal, 15(3)
- Iven L & Zaidi Y. (2022). Validation of the safety requirements of the landing gear using fault tree analysis. CEAS Aeronautical Journal, 13(2)
- Brown ETG & Zaidi Y. (2022). Energy Harvesting from Landing and Taxiing of Commercial Aircraft. SAE International Journal of Aerospace, 15(1)
- Zaidi Y, Coy NGF & Zyl RV. (2019). Rapid, automated, test, verification and validation for the CubeSats. International Journal of Space Science and Engineering, 5(3)
- Zaidi Y, van Zyl RR & Fitz-Coy NG. (2018). A GMSK VHF-uplink/UHF-downlink transceiver for the CubeSat missions. CEAS Space Journal, 10(3)
- Zaidi Y, Fitz-Coy NG & van Zyl R. (2018). Functional/thermal verification and validation of an S-band radio for the nanosatellites. Advances in Space Research, 62(12)
- Zaidi Y, Grimm C & Haase J. (2010). On Mixed Abstraction, Languages, and Simulation Approach to Refinement with SystemC AMS. EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems, 2010(1)
Conference Papers
- Shoaib M, Camelia F, Asmelash M, Zaidi Y, Tantawy A, .... (2025). Sustainable fuel aviation infrastructure and transition: hybrid agent-based modeling and system dynamics
- Delgado-Bellamy D, Al-Shibaany Z, Zaidi Y & Farooq A. (2024). Advancing Manufacturing Maintenance with Mixed Reality: Integrating HoloLens 2 in the Siemens-Festo Cyber-Physical Factory
- Didey A, Zaidi Y, Portapas V & Bakunowicz J. (2022). Dock-to-Dock: Multimodal Freight Transportation in Coastal Regions: Challenges, Opportunities, and Benefits
- Portapas V & Zaidi Y. (2022). Framework for Developing Digital Twin Prototypes
- Greenly C, Gray H, Chinn S, Passmore J, Wong H, .... (2021). The Design of a 3U CubeSat to Monitor the Great Pacific Garbage Patch Following a Systems Engineering Approach
- Wright C & Zaidi Y. (2021). Environmental Analysis and Optimisation of an In-Orbit Shape Memory Alloy Deployment Mechanism
- Portapas V, Zaidi Y, Bakunowicz J, Paddeu D, Valera-Medina A, .... (2021). Targeting Global Environmental Challenges by the Means of Novel Multimodal Transport: Concept of Operations
- Zar A, Zaidi Y & Winberg S. (2019). Indoor Positioning Using Auto Sextant
- Van Zyl R, Zaidi Y & Fitz Coy NG. (2019). Rapid, automated, test, verification and validation for the CubeSats
- Zaidi Y & van Zyl R. (2017). A low cost testbed and test-design methodology for nanosatellite sub-/systems
- Zaidi Y, Grimm C & Haase J. (2011). Simulation based tuning of system specification
- Adhikari S, Zaidi Y & Grimm C. (2011). Architectural mitigation for high performance energy measurement
- Zaidi Y, Adhikari S & Grimm C. (2011). Abstract modeling and simulation based selective estimation
- Zaidi Y, Grimm C & Haase J. (2011). Simulation based tuning of system specification
- Zaidi Y, Grimm C & Haase J. (2009). Analog behavior refinement in system centric modeling
- Zaidi Y, Grimm C & Haase J. (2009). Fast and unified SystemC AMS - HDL simulation
- Khurram M, Muhammad S & Zaidi Y. (2005). CAN as a spacecraft communication bus in LEO satellite mission