SIMULIA Americas Users Conference

Jason Action is an Associate Technical Fellow at Lockheed Martin, where he has worked as an Aeronautical Engineer for the past 22 years. Jason currently manages Project Gamma, a Stardrive initiative tasked with developing and implementing modeling and simulation best practices within Lockheed’s Advanced Development Programs, aka “Skunkworks.” Jason’s team has several years of experience implementing 3DEXPERIENCE generative design and analysis in industrial applications. Throughout his career, Jason has worked in structural analysis and finite element modeling ranging from full air vehicle to detailed part models. He has used Abaqus extensively, performing and helping to develop progressive damage analysis methods for composite parts and joints.

Hadi Meidani is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, an affiliate member of Siebel School of Computing and Data Science and Carle Illinois College of Medicine at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). His research focuses on physics-informed AI, and digital twins for engineering design. He earned his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, his M.S. in Electrical Engineering, and his M.S. in Structural Engineering from the University of Southern California (USC). Prior to joining UIUC, he was a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at USC and in the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute at the University of Utah. Dr. Meidani is the Chair of the Machine Learning Committee of the ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute. He is the recipient of an NSF CAREER Award on fast computational models for infrastructure networks. His team have won awards from data competitions on railroad engineering and his research has been sponsored by federal agencies such as National Science Foundation (NSF), DOE, and DOT.

Satyendra is a People Leader at the Ford Motor Company. Leading the Underbody systems Engineering CAE Team with the focus on Durability, MBD and the automation techniques.

Satyendra supports product development of the FNA programs and collaborates with the global teams worldwide, these include the teams in Germany, England, Mexico, Australia, and Brazil. Satyendra works on the development of all the product offerings of the Ford Motor Company. These include Heavy Duty, Super Duty, and Medium Duty Trucks. He also works on the product development of the commercial vans, pick-up trucks, SUVs, and the Mustang platforms.

His leadership helped to establish and grow the team with the local talent in Mexico, it was a very successful international assignment in Mexico from 2017-2020. Now the team in Mexico is well established and able to operate independently to support the program workstreams.

He is a long-time user of Abaqus, Tosca, Isight and all other SIMULIA products and a SIMULIA Champion. Now using 3DXPlatform to support the program milestone and gateway workstream projects. He has successfully migrated few of the V5 Parametric CAD/CAE templates to the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform with minor updates.

The vison of the Ford Motor company is to use the entire ecosystem of the 3DXPlatform for all the engineering workstreams, I and my team are completely aligned with that vision. I and my team keep collaborating with Kaustubh and the entire Dassault team for learning all the new features and leveraging the 3DXPlatform to the best of our abilities.

Satyendra began his career in the Aeronautical Industry. He helped design, develop and build an all-composite twin seat trainer aircraft. He is an alumnus of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA.

Michelle ASH is a dynamic, engaging, and goal-oriented senior executive who specializes in transformational roles, including business model reorientation, strategy development, implementation, and cultural change. She is passionate about transforming organizations that face challenges like rapid change and disruption, helping them reach their full potential. She is also a relationship-builder and values enabling stakeholders to achieve success.

In the past, Michelle has held key positions at BHP, as Vice President of Strategy for Growth, and at Barrick Gold as CIO, where she developed her passion for science, technology, and digital innovation. She also served as COO at Acacia Mining. She currently participates as a board member of several organizations, including Railveyor, Magnium, SAPHI, and StratumAI.

She earned a bachelor’s in Civil Engineering from the University of Melbourne in 1992 and holds Graduate Diplomas in both Business and Economics, as well as an EMBA.

Michelle is also very familiar with Dassault Systèmes having held the position of GEOVIA CEO and Infrastructure Industry Segment Executive from 2019 to 2022.