Dr Tahsiri is currently a senior faculty member of the Systems and Control Engineering Department at KNT University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. He is also the senior consultant to the University chancellor for strategic developments. He has so far founded a number of interdisciplinary programs at the University, the latest one is the Systems Engineering program at KNTU. He is a specialist in Systems Engineering and Design and is now working with academic staff with a Control Engineering background to delineate a new vision of systems modeling for problem solving approaches within large and complex systems in dynamic, changeable, and diverse environments. He has proposed a number of novel theories and practices within the current context of manufacturing systems analysis and design, namely: "Quantum Manufacturing Systems" (QMS); the "Market- Process- Product Model" (MPPM) which is a pragmatic model of the 21^st century manufacturing platform; and the "Dynamic Strategic Design" (DSD) methodology which is a third generation of systems optimization methods.Dr Tahsiri"s area of interests comprise of cognitive decision making in energy sector, manufacturing strategy development and risk evaluation; system dynamics methodology for pollution modeling and control, traffic modeling and control, trend study upon the future behavioral of businesses and industries, system architecture for optimal development within higher education, requirements engineering.